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What is danger of seacocks freezing? These are bronze valves put in by boat manufacturer and boatyard.
The danger is not of your seacocks freezing. The danger is of water trapped in your closed seacocks freezing. If your seacocks are left closed, any water that remains above the valve can freeze and could crack your bronze valves.I winterized my sterndrive engine….
I made my own winterizing kit:
1 Washing machine hose
1 Male/Male garden hose adapter to attach the hose to the ear muffs.
1 Green colored recycling bin with out drain holes, or a 5-gal pail will work.
1 ball-valve, 2 garden hose rubber washers.
I took my green recycling bin (without drain holes in the bottom) and drilled a 1/2″ hole in the side. Attached a ball-valve, rubber washer on each side of container.. that attaches to a washing maching hose. I take the washing machine hose, attach one end to the ball valve, the other end to the “ear muffs” that attach to the lower leg. Place the bin, hose attached on the transom and fill with NON-TOX antifreeze, attach the ear muffs. Start the engine, open the ball valve and fill’er up with antifreeze. The antifreeze fills the engine by gravity feed. It cost me $15.00 for materials at Home Depot instead of the 50. bucks West Marine was going to charge. I used this last year, and today, still works well.
In the summer months, I use the bin to hold soapy water to wash the boat/truck. When finished, I store fogging oil, hose and other winterizing things in the bin for the winter. This system was pure “Yankee ingenuity” as we say in New England, and some friends have made the same for their boats & jet skis.
