Overheating: Water coming from outdrive

[fishingdan]

I have been troubleshooting an overheating problem. Occurs at idle as well as running (naturally).

Murphy's law has jumped into this a couple of times. For example, while running on muffs recently, I realized that water stopped (or nearly stopped) coming from my hose while I was running the engine. When I looked into the house problem, I saw that my pump pressure switch failed which was causing my reserve tank to run dry. Replaced the impeller - again!

I put everything together and while running on the muffs again, I noticed water coming from the outdrive (see photo). This isn't normal, right? I assume that I missed the water tube somehow when I put the drive back on. The photo isn't my boat obviously, I just used it for illustration. The arrows are showing where I see the water squirting from. Water is still getting up and through the engine, but I not convinced all of it is getting there.

Thoughts?

 

[Bt Doctur]

Re: Overheating: Water coming from outdrive

water should not squirt out from there with the mounting gasket installed properly.

 

[fishingdan]

Re: Overheating: Water coming from outdrive

thanks bt, but what "mounting gasket"? I suspect something is off or split where the water tube comes up from the waterpump housing.

 

[bigskiohio]

Re: Overheating: Water coming from outdrive

your oring fell off or is bad at water port on bell housing.

 

[Dshow]

Re: Overheating: Water coming from outdrive

What kind of outdrive do you have? I believe there is an o-ring on the cooling connection between the outdrive and the boat. Is that in place?

 

[fishingdan]

Re: Overheating: Water coming from outdrive

I need to look. Sorry for not posting the details. This is a 1991 4.3LX with an alpha one.