Water pump or no water pump?

[Chris shields]

So this is my first boat and it came using a walbro pulse fed water pump to cool the motor. I have friends who have boats and none of them use a water pump. They rely on forward motion to force water through the pipe flange and head. I have a hydro coming in the mail and I'm gonna transfer my motor and electronics over to it. Should I keep the water pump or ditch it?

 

[lohring]

Unless you have a clutch and plan to idle the engine while the boat is stationary, get rid of the water pump.

Lohring Miller

 

[Hydro Junkie]

I have to agree with Lohring, lose the pump. In most applications, they are unneeded extra weight and just something else to fail. A properly set up ram feed system will work as well, if not better than a pump system, without the added complexity

 

[Andy Greene]

Unless you have a clutch and plan to idle the engine while the boat is stationary, get rid of the water pump.

Lohring Miller

You mean to tell me the transmitter has a setting besides WFO - learn something new every day

Stationary is dead boat btw

 

[Hydro Junkie]

Sure it does, Andy. The settings are called "engine start", "milling" and, as you put it, WFO. Anything else just confuses the issue

If things go right for me this year, I'll make it up to WFO and challenge the front runners

 

[Chris shields]

Thanks guys. No water pump it is

 

[George Taylor]

I agree with Andy, these boats are "two speed" boats, OFF and WFO!!!!!!!!