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Originally Posted by vreihen16
Rather than use the garden hose and water muffs, my grandfather used to fill a clean outdoor galvanized garbage can with water and drop the outdrive of his outboard into it for cooling. He believed that the water muffs and garden hose never allowed the thermostat to open, so he wanted to get the water in the can warm by running the engine. Then, he would turn on the hose to slowly replace the can's water with fresh.....
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We used the can at home to do maintenance on the outboard in the sailboat. Generally, that engine only ran on cans of ether
