[C320-list] rubber burning smell!

[Karl Mielenhausen _/)]

Perhaps the drive belt to the water pump was slipping. Could you have  
retightened it after pulling the impeller?

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:06 -0400, james_delong  
<james_delong at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Yesterday, after a nice day sail, we started the engine to motor back  
> in.  After a few minutes we began to smell a strong odor of burning  
> rubber.  Then the over heating alarm went off.  Shut her down and  
> reverted to sail.  I pulled the impeller and found every blade was  
> cracked, but in place.  Replaced that then started the engine again.   
> The rubber smell returned!  Then checked water flow to the pump and all  
> seemed ok.  Started the engine again and all was ok!  Motored in at the  
> proper temperature.
>
> I hate it when something is fixed and I have no clue how or why the  
> problem occurred in the first place!
>
> If no water was getting to the impeller, would that cause the rubber  
> burning smell?  And, could the blades have cracked with a dry pump?  My  
> only conclusion is that something was stuck on the intake, the impeller  
> failed, and later whatever clogged the intake fell off.  Could it have  
> been as simple at that?
>
> Or...does a strong rubber smell indicate something else?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Jim  #453



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Karl Mielenhausen
Catalina 320 Hull 690
New Bern, NC