Remove Impeller Cover for Winterization

[Richtercom]

First time winterizing a 2012 GTI and the manual says to "remove impeller cover and check if jet pump is water contaminated". Is anyone doing this when winterizing? I read some winterizing threads and did not find any mentioning this.

 

[red2blue]

First time winterizing a 2012 GTI and the manual says to "remove impeller cover and check if jet pump is water contaminated". Is anyone doing this when winterizing? I read some winterizing threads and did not find any mentioning this.

I run w/o a nose cone so I check my pump grease after every trip to the lake. Removing the cone and checking grease ain't a big deal and sounds like good advice to me.

 

[Richtercom]

On my 2-Stroker the nose cone holds in oil, but on the new 4-Tec it's just a cap for grease...and without the cone the grease still sticks to where it needs to?

 

[red2blue]

On my 2-Stroker the nose cone holds in oil, but on the new 4-Tec it's just a cap for grease...and without the cone the grease still sticks to where it needs to?

No one's ever explained to me how the grease does it's job so this is just my redneck figurin here...

Centrivical force is what I figure keeps the grease up tight to the bearing and doing it's job. After a time or to at the lake (because I run w/o a prop nose cone) I see a bit of off color grease in the pump cone...I just pull out what's contaminated and replace with new marine grease. Never had a prob.

There have been some who've removed the grease and gone to an oil filled pump cone.