Raw Water Tee Question
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Printed Date: November-18-2024 at 11:22pm
Topic: Raw Water Tee Question
Posted By: Big Pappa
Subject: Raw Water Tee Question
Date Posted: June-26-2012 at 7:48pm
I know there is a debate on how people prefer to run their boats on the hose, be it a Fake-A-Lake, hose in a bucket or a Tee in the raw water line. I used to run my boat on a DIY Fake-A-Lake but I always hated having to crawl under the boat on the wet driveway to pull it back out.
I went today and picked up the stuff to add a tee to my raw water line but was wondering where people typically place this, before or after the strainer. I was thinking of putting it after the strainer (Between strainer and trans cooler) with the thought that the strainer would fill up with water when I turn on the hose and provide a little more of a closed end to help provide the initial suction of the RWP.
Question is though, I know the strainers are directional would it do any harm to my strainer if water were to run in the opposite direction than is intended?
What do you all think, before or after the strainer?
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Posted By: TRBenj
Date Posted: June-26-2012 at 7:51pm
I think I put mine before, but I dont think it really matters. If you take your strainer apart and look at how it works, you'll see it simply forces the water to take a path that goes through the metal screen... not much to it. So water can flow both ways (especially clean water from a hose).
I put mine right up top on the loop that goes over the tranny- nice and accessible.
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