moparron
Seaman
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2015
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- 52
Howdy.. I recently purchased an 89 Regal sebring 195XL CC. Boat is not perfect... Hell it's an older boat. I expected that. What does get me.. is a friggin mystery oil leak. The first time we took it out - as a shake down to make sure things worked and such. everything seemed fine until we got back on the trailer and I pulled the drain plug... looked like oil mixed with the bilge water.
Got home, and yup.. oil in the bilge :-( Made sure everything was tight, oil level was still full. So I figured that when the previous owner changed the oil he spilled some in the bilge and didn't clean it up properly. Still.. I checked oil drain plug, oil filter, oil pan bolts, etc.. everything seemed fine
Took the boat out this last Sunday(was 80 here in Florida). Having a good ol time on the boat. We decided it was time to head in, so got the boat out in the channel and cruising at about 30MPH. soon I noticed that the oil pressure was a bit too low for my liking.. when we went out, It was reading about 50PSI at 3800 rpm. Now it was reading 20 at 3900 RPM. Shut it down, pulled the dipstick.... nothing!!! Darn glad I had a little voice tell me "bring oil... just in case". Three quarts later and it was full again. Bilge was full of oil (Shut off pump - as not to pollute anything)
Got home... drained bilge into 5 gallon bucket. and started looking for the leak. Checked the usual culprits from what I found on a bunch of forums. Not the front seal, not the timing cover (that would be just too easy). Starboard side of the motor is soaked, wires tot he starter are soaked, motor mount is soaked. Oil pan gasket appears dry?? Dipstick tube is tight and not moving in or out. No PCV valves... just breather tubes (again - a stuck PCV would have been too easy).
Any ideas on where to check next?? Or do I need to figure out how to get my engine hoist in the boat and yank the motor??? The motor was "freshened up" about 75 hours and four years ago.
Got home, and yup.. oil in the bilge :-( Made sure everything was tight, oil level was still full. So I figured that when the previous owner changed the oil he spilled some in the bilge and didn't clean it up properly. Still.. I checked oil drain plug, oil filter, oil pan bolts, etc.. everything seemed fine
Took the boat out this last Sunday(was 80 here in Florida). Having a good ol time on the boat. We decided it was time to head in, so got the boat out in the channel and cruising at about 30MPH. soon I noticed that the oil pressure was a bit too low for my liking.. when we went out, It was reading about 50PSI at 3800 rpm. Now it was reading 20 at 3900 RPM. Shut it down, pulled the dipstick.... nothing!!! Darn glad I had a little voice tell me "bring oil... just in case". Three quarts later and it was full again. Bilge was full of oil (Shut off pump - as not to pollute anything)
Got home... drained bilge into 5 gallon bucket. and started looking for the leak. Checked the usual culprits from what I found on a bunch of forums. Not the front seal, not the timing cover (that would be just too easy). Starboard side of the motor is soaked, wires tot he starter are soaked, motor mount is soaked. Oil pan gasket appears dry?? Dipstick tube is tight and not moving in or out. No PCV valves... just breather tubes (again - a stuck PCV would have been too easy).
Any ideas on where to check next?? Or do I need to figure out how to get my engine hoist in the boat and yank the motor??? The motor was "freshened up" about 75 hours and four years ago.