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Re: 5.0 OMC lots of smoke and water in bilge
Ran out to the marina at lunch found a hose clamp and what appears to be some pieces of the impeller in the bottom of the bilge. This is our third summer with the boat, but it didn't get used but a couple of times last summer so we didn't replace the...
'94 or '95 Chris Craft Concept 197 with 5.0 liter OMC and cobra outdrive. Boat was winterized and all the fluids changed by the shop back in the fall.
Yesterday my co-captain and I took the boat out for the first time this year to blow the cob webs out. Boat started and ran fine. I was...