Well it happened, my exhaust elbow corroded away and just before we are to leave on cruise. I purchased the stainless version from Murray a number of years ago just to have and now I have a use for it. That is not the problem the problem is getting it off and all the connecting pipes ( frozen solid and no room to move) I know someone had the same problem and posted on it but I can’t access the achieves it won’t recognize my address (another problem) does anyone have any suggestions on removing the piping? are they standard sizes purchased at a hardware store …thanks…Mike Schiff TAYVA 407 N30U pultneyville NY
Mike,
I replaced the plumbing from the engine to the muffler a few years ago. The pipes are standard plumbing sizes and mine were totally rusted together. I pulled the plumbing right away from the motor to where the raw enters as one piece and then rebuilt it on a work bench. Good luck.
NS 26C 83 Tabby Gerard van Boven
Mike: Cut the old piece off at the exhaust flange, don’t even try to disassemble on the boat. Buy a new flange from a Westerbeke dealer and using Murray’s elbow, fabricate the rest from black iron pipe or stainless. I also think bronze or brass might be OK. Just this past Saturday I had to make the injection elbow (cutting, drilling, welding) and used galvanized (doesn’t last as long) pipe for the rest so that my friend’s CD30 could race.
Joe
NS30U #221 “Il Gatto”
Oriental, NC
Hi Mike:
Sorry I don't have any answers for your exhaust elbow replacement. This is
just to say that everyone missed you and Sheri, and the Darrows as well, at
our TINA rendezvous. We just got home yesterday.
Hope you have your problems solved by this time.
Take care,
Jim and Emma
Hi Jim
Dick and I worked all day on it and the only way to do the job is to remove the whole assembly. The exhaust flange holds the whole assembly so by removing that it comes right out and can be put back together off the boat using all new pipe fitting and a new gasket. I didnt have a new gasket so we had to find the right material and hand cut a new one and now all is well. I am sorry to have missed you and all but weather was not cooperating and Dick had a stomach ailment for a few days so we were out for 2 weeks but stuck close by getting only as far as Oswego but had fun… hope all is well with you and Emma …Mike…P.S. I won’t tell Jerri that you called her Sheri…When I first met her I called her Terri … as long as you don’t call her late for dinner