2004 Honda 8 hp gas leak

jjdoro2

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I have a 2004 Honda 8hp power thrust trolling motor that has a gas leak out of the last weep hole above the cavitation plate (I believe these are exhasut weep holes, there are 4 of them together, then a zinc plate and then one alone which is the one that is leaking what looks to be a combination of gas, oil and carbon particles). More importantly it doesn't run now. It was running fine an then all of a sudden it stopped and now when I turn it over this brown gas pumps out that weep hole. Any ideas what could be wrong? The only thing that happened recently was that our anchor didn't hold and the boat was blown into some weeds. I had to get out with the 8hp (too shallow for main motor) and in so doing a large gob of weeds wrapped tightly around the prop. That happened 2 days before this problem started. Thanks
 
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