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Old 02-10-2019, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by sdemore View Post
I bought a used heat exchanger last year from a working boat (same model sold on the Moyer site). I pulled the zinc out to replace it today and it is about half the length and thickness of new. I picked up a new on at West Marine and tried to install it today. It went in about 3/4 of the way and hit something inside the exchanger. So 2 questions:

1) should a standard 2" long zinc fit, or is it supposed to be trimmed?

2) Presuming it should fit, if I remove the bolt on top and/or bottom cover, can I pull out the tubes and see if a chunk of old zinc is in there?
1 - don't know, you can trim them
2 - I would look in there and see
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