{"id":23966,"date":"2015-10-07T23:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23966"},"modified":"2015-10-08T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T10:39:43","slug":"finding-exhaust-elbow-failure-and-the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/10\/finding-exhaust-elbow-failure-and-the-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing Exhaust Elbow Failure and the Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yanmar GM engines are common and reliable, but one weakness on the raw- water-cooled version is the exhaust elbow, where seawater is forced into the elbow at the engine manifold, <em>writes Ian Pirrie<\/em>.<br \/>\n<script src=\"?cf_action=sync_comments&amp;post_id=24029\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>Problems occur when hot exhaust gases are mixed with seawater: this is a very corrosive mixture. The elbow has a concentric tube welded inside the outer tube, which forms a water-cooled jacket around the exhaust passage: this weld is very prone to failure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbo.co.uk\/expert-advice\/giving-exhaust-problems-the-elbow-24029\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanmar GM engines are common and reliable, but one weakness on the raw- water-cooled version is the exhaust elbow, where seawater is forced into the elbow at the engine manifold, writes Ian Pirrie. Problems occur when hot exhaust gases are mixed with seawater: this is a very corrosive mixture. The elbow has a concentric tube welded inside the outer tube, which forms a water-cooled jacket around the exhaust passage: this weld is very prone to failure. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23984,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966\/revisions\/23984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}