I brought my Perko sea water engine intake strainer home for the winter to clean up and rebuild. Before I get too far into doing that, I noticed that it's a 1/2" pipe thread model while my 2GM20F's raw water pump intake is 5/8". This setup has presumably been in place for 8 years with no known adverse effects on the engine. Is there any reason for me at this point to upgrade it to larger model or should I just look at is as ain't broke/don't fix things?
Undersized Strainer?
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The intake to our rw pump is 1/2" the outlet to the HX is 5/8". Never been a problem on our M25 Universal diesel. The "trick" is to assure that the elbows on your pump are the right size. When we replaced our HX earlier this year, we found some bozo in the past had a 1/2" pump outlet hose pushed onto the 5/8" HX inlet! I just bought the new correct elbow for the pump outlet and ran new 5/8" hose.
You'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
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