Hi Everyone
I am completely new to the forum and am looking for some info. I am looking at a boat with an A4 in it that has been sitting for probably a couple of years. It was donated to a foundation and is for sale "as-is", so there is no info available from the previous owner. I am very interested in the boat and they seem agreeable to letting me check out anything I want on it. I should mention that the PO had made many improvements to the engine. It has the Indigo fresh water cooling added. The lower water pump looks newer, and has the plate with the thumbscrews as seen in some of the photos on this site, holding it on. According to the yard manager it has a stainless steel exhaust system.
The other day, along with the yard manager, we tried to start the engine, and within a few tries it fired up, and ran smoothly and then we shut it off before it really had a chance to warm up. It seemed to run fine. I then asked him, thanks to some threads I had seen here, if we could hook it up to some cooling water and run it for a while. He agreed, and we removed the raw water intake hose and placed it in a bucket of water in the cockpit. We started the engine again, and there was no water flow through the engine. We got a funnel, held the hose up as high as possible and filled it with water, and still nothing. We by-passed the raw water strainer and still nothing.
My question is this. I am very interested in the boat, but I don't want to pay too much if this is a serious, i.e. "expensive" fix. Are there other things I can check? Do you think this is a big problem? The yard manager seemed to think it was probably the impellers. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
David
I am completely new to the forum and am looking for some info. I am looking at a boat with an A4 in it that has been sitting for probably a couple of years. It was donated to a foundation and is for sale "as-is", so there is no info available from the previous owner. I am very interested in the boat and they seem agreeable to letting me check out anything I want on it. I should mention that the PO had made many improvements to the engine. It has the Indigo fresh water cooling added. The lower water pump looks newer, and has the plate with the thumbscrews as seen in some of the photos on this site, holding it on. According to the yard manager it has a stainless steel exhaust system.
The other day, along with the yard manager, we tried to start the engine, and within a few tries it fired up, and ran smoothly and then we shut it off before it really had a chance to warm up. It seemed to run fine. I then asked him, thanks to some threads I had seen here, if we could hook it up to some cooling water and run it for a while. He agreed, and we removed the raw water intake hose and placed it in a bucket of water in the cockpit. We started the engine again, and there was no water flow through the engine. We got a funnel, held the hose up as high as possible and filled it with water, and still nothing. We by-passed the raw water strainer and still nothing.
My question is this. I am very interested in the boat, but I don't want to pay too much if this is a serious, i.e. "expensive" fix. Are there other things I can check? Do you think this is a big problem? The yard manager seemed to think it was probably the impellers. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
David
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