[Public-List] Mufflers

[George Dinwiddie via Public-List]

Stephen,

On 1/30/15 7:33 PM, Stephen gwyn via Public-List wrote:
> Thanks George,
>
> I'm still having troubles with the details.
>
> It goes from the exhaust manifold into the locker
> with piping, that I get, but how does that attach
> to the muffler. Is there a short section of hose or...?

Yes, there's a hose.

> Is the the muffler sitting horizontal on some shelf in the locker?
> Or is it lying at an angle?

It's at an angle, sitting in the bottom corner of the locker.

>  > I keep the fuel in the tank. ;-)
> Har har. But this is almost certainly not true. The fuel leaves
> the tank on a regular basis, to be burnt in your engine. So you
> have a fuel hose moving through more or less the same space as
> the exhaust. On my boat it goes from the tank through the
> bulkhead to the port locker where the fuel filter is.  This is at
> the corner between the bulkhead between the engine room and the
> port locker and the port locker and the cabin, which is where I
> think you have your muffler.  From that spot, my fuel hose goes
> through the bulkhead again to the fuel pump on the engine. The
> hot exhaust is relatively well separated from the fuel line. So
> I'm wondering how you do it with your set up?

My tank is under the cockpit sole. The fuel filter is on the starboard 
side of the engine compartment, just forward of the engine and up high. 
The fuel line from there goes under the engine to the fuel pump.

  - George

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