Originally Posted by
Bahala
This weekend we were idling way back in a creek and hit a couple shallow spots. Apparently enough mud was sucked in that the overheat alarm went off. We shut it down and got on the trolling motor. I could blow air into the tell tale. I pulled the engine flush connection (2008 Yamaha) and tried flushing water through using a water bottle, but what ever I could get in just ran back out. After trolling for a long while, we turned the key and the alarm didn't go off. We floored it, and suddenly water stared coming out of the tell tale and water pressure jumped up to 20 psi. What would you do if this happened and you couldn't clean it out? Would a hand held pump like this work to flush it out?