Impellar Maintenance

[GMack]

I have a 2001 22V with a 355 Scorpion. How often should the impellar be changed? I use this boat every other weekend for recreational coverage, May thru Oct, and keep it in dry storage when not in use.

[da.bell]

Some change the impellar yearly and others will change it every two years. I even think someone mentioned after 200 hours somewhere on this site or on WW. IMO, I would change it every year to be on the safe side and do it yourself. I think the impellar is around $35 (someone correctly if this is wrong) but whatever the price is, it still beats the chances of the engine overheating.

[wakeboarder247]

I'm w/ you. We change our impellar every year before we take it out in the spring. A few years after we got our '95 Tige, which was our first boat, we had it go out on us launching and it was a bummer b/c we didn't get to ride for about a week while the dealer had it. I would change it every year just to be safe. If it is $35 like da.bell stated then that is a pretty cheap price to almost gaurantee that it won't go out on you all summer!

[zad0030]

Ok this is killing me, Is it spelled impellAr or impellEr?

[spharis]

impeller.

[wakeboarder247]

haha it was killing me too! I thought it was impellER but I was responding to da.bell's post where he spelled it impellAR and so I just followed along.. I was too lazy to look it up..

[da.bell]

I didn't care how it was spelled this AM. Not to mention it was too early in the AM with no coffee in my system. I guess I should have used the spell checker...

We all knew what GMack is asking!!!!

[wakeboarder247]

just like we all know it was GMack's fault for spelling it wrong in the first place! You and I were just following along... jk jk

[sagmanaur]

On my first boat, I was a novice to boating at the time, the impeller was almost to the point it was bad when I bought the boat. It lasted a month or so, before I almost toasted the engine... black smoke coming from the engine box... pretty scary.
They are about $35, and well worth changing it every year.... that reminds me, I should change mine.

[hoopykat]

I'll chime in here and agree with the general consensus...a yearly change, especially if you winterize your boat, is cheap insurance against an impeller demolition while out on the water. $35-$70 depending on who and where...Get it done with the winterization. I did mine last year, and apparently the original owner never bothered to change it. After 130+ hours, the vanes were practically non-existent. Scary thing was I had just used the boat 2 days before the service...and I was out alone.

Mike