TH Marine Outboard Quick Flush Kit

Westie

Does anyone have experience with TH Marine Outboard Quick Flush Kit?

It seems like this would be a good solution to expedite flushing on my Suzuki four storkes. Removing the manufactures flush cap is a pain. This quick connect has a value to prevent water from exiting the engine. Thoughts?

http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do?pid=14538

SounderSolutions · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:50 am Post subject:

Very similar to what I use for my Suzuki's. My inserts are brass and came from the gardening depertment at Home Depot. Quick connect male on the motor side and female on the hose side. I do take mine out as they do not have the check valve but I don't mind. Definetly reduces the effort required to flush the motors.

thataway · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:07 pm Post subject:

I had a plastic fitting which appears to be the same thing as this, on an inboard V8 flush kit. It was buried in the engine room, but never leaked, and was easy to connect (I kept the o ring greased with silicone paste). Seemed to flush the engine adequately.

The only reservation on the outboard, is if it broke, then I suspect that the valve in the plastic could leak. If you carry the original plug, and a pair of pliers which are capable of removing this plastic if it did break off (like something hitting it) Then it would be OK.

I keep a short hose on the Caracal (Suzuki 140), and have a hose with a on/off valve at the boat slip in the keys, so I screw the short hose in first, then connect the shot hose to the flush hose after each run. Before I used the short hose, it was a bit of a pain--with the short hose, only takes a couple of seconds to hook it up.

localboy · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:36 pm Post subject:

I got one pretty similar, in brass, from Home Depot for about $6.

Westie · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:01 pm Post subject:

Do you leave them in all the time?

The ones I'm talking about have a valve to prevent water from draining.

thataway · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:28 pm Post subject:

The fitting mentioned by Westie in the original post, does have a valve, in the plastic fitting left in the motor. Ones at home depot do not have a valve in this part of the fitting. You could not leave a Home Depot type of fitting in the flushing system all of the time (unless it had a cap on it--or a plug in the female fitting.)

The fitting on the inboard was let in the system full time, because it had a valve in that part of the fitting.

localboy · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:26 pm Post subject: