nieuwBoater
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2009
- Messages
- 17
Hey All!
Tiffany here again...newbie boater with a '73 Fiberform (18') with a 165 hp (250 Chevy) OMC. First the good news...with the kind assistance and expert advice of several great folks here, I managed to replace my leaky transom seal! It took me a lot longer than some of you to do (about 5 1/2 hours), but I took the boat out yesterday, and it worked great! Thank you!
Now...the problem du jour: In inspecting the seal on the inside of the engine compartment I found a rather large and "weird" leak...not in the seal... but through a small (appx. 1/2" diameter) circular hole where the back of the engine mounts to the outdrive. The hole is on the port side, a little under the curve of the mounting housing on the engine, and I can't see it clearly, but there is an electrical wire that runs through the hole, presumably to the outdrive. There was water running through this hole and into the bilge at a pretty good rate... I could hear it trickling and splashing, so I found the "leak" and stuffed a plastic bag and a small wire nut in the hole to work as a kind of cork for the day. Leakage was slowed to almost zero, but I'm thinking that there must be a leak in the water side of the outdrive (aft) that I need to fix. I can stop the water from coming in by putting some marine sealant (3M 4200) in that hole, but I'm thinking that's fixing the effect rather than the cause.
Any idea where it could be coming from? What does that electrical wire do?
Just as a further note, there is a little rubber boot at the top of the outdrive that has a tear in it...could this be the source of the leak?
Thanks to all!!!! I'm getting this fixed little by little with everyone's help...
Tiffany
P.S. The engine runs like a top now! : ) Full tune-up plus some Heet and some carb cleaner...probably got it up to about 35-40 mph yesterday with good response froma dead stop...almost ready to drag a skier or tube around!
Tiffany here again...newbie boater with a '73 Fiberform (18') with a 165 hp (250 Chevy) OMC. First the good news...with the kind assistance and expert advice of several great folks here, I managed to replace my leaky transom seal! It took me a lot longer than some of you to do (about 5 1/2 hours), but I took the boat out yesterday, and it worked great! Thank you!
Now...the problem du jour: In inspecting the seal on the inside of the engine compartment I found a rather large and "weird" leak...not in the seal... but through a small (appx. 1/2" diameter) circular hole where the back of the engine mounts to the outdrive. The hole is on the port side, a little under the curve of the mounting housing on the engine, and I can't see it clearly, but there is an electrical wire that runs through the hole, presumably to the outdrive. There was water running through this hole and into the bilge at a pretty good rate... I could hear it trickling and splashing, so I found the "leak" and stuffed a plastic bag and a small wire nut in the hole to work as a kind of cork for the day. Leakage was slowed to almost zero, but I'm thinking that there must be a leak in the water side of the outdrive (aft) that I need to fix. I can stop the water from coming in by putting some marine sealant (3M 4200) in that hole, but I'm thinking that's fixing the effect rather than the cause.
Any idea where it could be coming from? What does that electrical wire do?
Just as a further note, there is a little rubber boot at the top of the outdrive that has a tear in it...could this be the source of the leak?
Thanks to all!!!! I'm getting this fixed little by little with everyone's help...
Tiffany
P.S. The engine runs like a top now! : ) Full tune-up plus some Heet and some carb cleaner...probably got it up to about 35-40 mph yesterday with good response froma dead stop...almost ready to drag a skier or tube around!