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My new to me 2016 209 with a Yamaha 200 has what I have been told is an engine flush inlet mounted in the starboard splash well. The fitting that goes on the hose clicks into it securely but no water comes out of the engine with the hose on. Normal flow is visible with the engine running. Is it likely one of the fittings is bad? Or some sort of plug in the hose? Or am I doing something wrong.
 
Most of the flush water will go out the exhaust. If you have the motor trimmed up you should see it.

Sometimes the tel-tale is blocked or you don't have enough hose water pressure.

Take the engine cover off. Look for the fuel cooler where the tel-tale out come out. Snake the tel-tale with string trimmer monofilament or 300lb monofilament. Get back as far as you can into the fuel filter. If that doesn't work pull the hoses off one at a time to see if you have flow.
 
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Trimmed up I can't see any water coming out of the exhaust or tel-tale. Hose seems to have good pressure.
 
Doesn't the engine have a flush fitting built right into the lower cowling?

Instead of guessing, follow the hose on the backside of that fitting... where does it go? How would that fitting even be connected to the engine to start with?
 
Its not so much water pressure as it is volume. Long hoses, small diameter hose, or using retractable 'squishy' hoses may not present sufficient water volume to reach the tell tale port. If when in the water the tell tale is normal, a plugged port is very unlikely
 
Harpo,
can you post a photo of what you are speaking of?

Here is a video where Eric is showing how to use the remote flush port as he say "installed on all boats", on mine it's not but mine is 2011 and not really sure if it's installed on smaller GW's.
Chris
 
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Not installed on my 200s, flush using the typical cowl mounter, pain in the neck to get to' fitting.
There are options though. The Reverso system is an option although it has a terrible reliability reputation. In that option, there is a controller that gets programmed for the flush cycle. I don't know if that option is available for single motors. That aside, I would not expect to see any sort of flush system on a 209. One could be installed later on, just a simple reroute of the flush port to a bulkhead fitting somewhere easier to get to than the cowl mounted system

A photo of the fitting you are connecting to would help us identify it.
 
Thats a pretty late model 209, my ‘21 208 has a similar set-up with the flush port mounted on the starboard side of the motor well. I had the hose end fitting go bad, got a new one it worked. After that the transom-mounted side cracked. I have a new one from the dealer to install but it is kinda tight going in the backside from the jump seat hatch access.

With the 205/208/209 engine tilting into the motor well it is easy to attach the hose using the motor fitting. On my F200 there is a short hose section just below the engine cowl on the boat port side. Unscrew that hose which has the female fitting taking care to not drop the O-ring! Attach your hose to flush.

Even after I install the new remote flush port I will probably continue to use the on-motor fitting since the dealer tells me the remote part gets cracked easily. Easy to see why, I probably pulled on the hose and that put pressure on the plastic flush port.
 
Sorry no picture. The boat is in the water 4 hours away. There is a flexible hose from the fitting that goes through the grommet from under the starboard seat up into the engine. The flush port on the engine is had to reach with the boat in the water. I'm thinking I'll have to clear the tell tale as Hookup1 suggested but I think it'll be easier when the boat is out in the fall.
 
Peter A-- where did you buy the replacement male part of the fitting? I'll try the flush hose on the port side you mentioned when I go over to the boat this week.
 
Harpo, you said that you have normal flow with the engine running... can we assume you mean the "tell tale" hole? If so, there's no need to clear something that isn't clogged... which then makes me think you're talking about something else.

This is your first step:

Find where the remote mounted flushing hose attaches to the engine. Remove it. Turn on the flush water... what kind of flow do you get out of it?

You said it's hard to attach a hose to the cowling mounted flush fitting? With the engine tilted up, isn't it pretty much the same as the splash well mounted fitting? It would seem that with a small boat it'd be pretty easy?
 
Harpo said:
Peter A-- where did you buy the replacement male part of the fitting? I'll try the flush hose on the port side you mentioned when I go over to the boat this week.
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Grady dealer for both parts. But I have a dealer in Brick NJ en route to my boat in Waretown. You could call a dealer and they could mail one to you. Not sure who makes it, would seem unlikely that it’s a part unique to Grady.

With the engine tilted up into the motorwell the engine port is easy to reach. Don’t drop the O ring if you don’t have a spare, otherwise you’ll be borrowing from a neighbor’s hose ( it’s just a standard garden hose size piece, nothing special).
 
Harpo said:
Sorry no picture. The boat is in the water 4 hours away. There is a flexible hose from the fitting that goes through the grommet from under the starboard seat up into the engine. The flush port on the engine is had to reach with the boat in the water. I'm thinking I'll have to clear the tell tale as Hookup1 suggested but I think it'll be easier when the boat is out in the fall.
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A plugged telltale will not affect water flow for flushing. It's purpose is purely to give you a visual indication that the pump is working when the motor is down in the water as well as 'usually' an indication that water is flowing due to the flush hose flow. If the water flow volume is too low, it is possible that the tell tale wont pee or pees weakly.
When the motor is raised up, water will exit via the prop hub as well as additional water outlets depending on the motor model.
So in your case, you want to see water coming out of the water outlets as proof that water is flowing. In addition, it is pretty easy to hear water flowing in the supply hose.
 
DennisG01 said:
Ah, OK. So in that case there must be a water hose going through the rigging grommet - which would be easy to see with the hood off
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Are you sure about that?
That would need a water flush port under the cowling what i am not aware of and doubt also that a thin hose who fit inside the rigging tube and passes thru the rubber grommet will have enough flow to flush the engine correctly.
I expected that the water to flush uses the outside cowling mounted flush port
 
The hose would not be super thin. The normal stub hose of the flush port is 5/16 in or 3/8 inch. It is a soft pliable rubber hose. not like fuel line. For the Reverso system, the short flush hose is eliminated and the new long hose is connected under the cowling to where the flush hose was originally. Since the hose is longer than the original run, the flow will be reduced but there is still enough flow to flush the motor (not running of course).
I am actually looking at running a similar flush hose on my non Grady twin 200 boat mainly because the flush port is not only hard to get to. It is dangerous do climb into the motor well due to the sloped floor. In the meantime, I added a quick connect coupler to the flush port female hose fitting and the male cowling mounted male fitting. It is easier to reach over and disconnect the flush hose and plug it into the water supply hose that has the appropriate fitting. I probably will not run the hose in the rigging tube, but rather probably zip tie it to the rigging tube. I haven't worked out all the details yet and may wait until the off season for the job.
 
seasick said:
The hose would not be super thin. The normal stub hose of the flush port is 5/16 in or 3/8 inch. It is a soft pliable rubber hose. not like fuel line.
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Yes you are right, the hose from the flush port to engine is thin, i overseen that.
Interesting idea and would be nice if it works as supposed and let us know and write a how to whan you do it.
I need to think about a remote flush also as the new BF350 are so big and have a soft lightweight cowling that going there is uncomfortable.
You brought me a new idea instead of the usual remot flush solution using a normal water hose and quick connectors
Chris
 
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