Joshua Nichols
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Now for the last 2 months my boat engine has been running perfect short of a little funk in the carb.. I went to go play with the tub tonight.. You know hit all the check points.. After looking over outdrive, I hooked the water up and climbed in the boat... Pumped the throttle twice and fired it off.. Noticed a rough idle.Never has done that before. I couldn't clean it up either.. Hmmmm strange... Noticed I started having a little oil(normal color) leak on the right side of the carb... Well big deal.. It's a GM product.. Common leak.. So I yank out the dipstick low and behold.. WATER IN THE CRANKCASE... Now WTH.. I have never got it hot.. Previous owner told me he never had a overheating problem with it.. It runs a sweet 160 all the time.. The exhaust manifolds are so cool u could put ur face on them...
Going to go pick up a new leak down tester tomorrow.. Haven't had to use one in along time.. I am thinking since I have this engine miss, using one will give me a idea which bank has the problem.. Going to try and figure out a way to pressure up the block.. No sure how to do it..
Now I know the first thing I am going to hear is cracked block.. I just don't see it running perfect for 2 months with a cracked block.. Plus this is deep south Texas.. If we get 4 nights of 32 degree weather a year it's a record..
I even called the guy I bought it from.. He said he has never had any water in the crankcase.. said oil was always real clean.. Has been clean the whole time I have had it..
This one has me scratching my head.. My buddy who loves GM(everyone I owned was poop) said he thinks it my just be a blown head gasket and or a intake gasket.. I told him that I was thinking it is the and before I could finish he said right bank and I said yeah.. So I will see.. I sure don't wanta have to replace the block.. Yanking the engine doesn't look fun without a overhead crane.....
All opinions are welcome.. Plus I finish all my treads to the end so others may learn from my plight..
Going to go pick up a new leak down tester tomorrow.. Haven't had to use one in along time.. I am thinking since I have this engine miss, using one will give me a idea which bank has the problem.. Going to try and figure out a way to pressure up the block.. No sure how to do it..
Now I know the first thing I am going to hear is cracked block.. I just don't see it running perfect for 2 months with a cracked block.. Plus this is deep south Texas.. If we get 4 nights of 32 degree weather a year it's a record..
I even called the guy I bought it from.. He said he has never had any water in the crankcase.. said oil was always real clean.. Has been clean the whole time I have had it..
This one has me scratching my head.. My buddy who loves GM(everyone I owned was poop) said he thinks it my just be a blown head gasket and or a intake gasket.. I told him that I was thinking it is the and before I could finish he said right bank and I said yeah.. So I will see.. I sure don't wanta have to replace the block.. Yanking the engine doesn't look fun without a overhead crane.....
All opinions are welcome.. Plus I finish all my treads to the end so others may learn from my plight..
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