OK It's been a long and costly month. I'm about ready to tear my hair out. I have replaced my lower, resealed my upper, replaced gimble bearing, and now am replacing bellows and possibly an exhaust flapper. I have my outdrive off again and hanging on a cherry picker. I made a pressure tester out of a guage, a piece of hose, and an air valve, I turned my shop air down to 20 lbs, and put pressure on the outdrive, I then turned off the air valve and disconnected from shop air. The outdrive held 20 lbs for about 3 1/2 hours. About 3 1/2 hours later the guage is down to 9 lbs. Is this normal? Is there a standard time to run this test? I haven't been able to run the boat enough since lower rebuid to see how much (if any) oil is leaking out. When I did drain the oil ther was no water in it though. I am thinking about a remote oil reservoir, so at least I can glance at the reservoir and have peice of mind that there is enough oil in the outdrive. I can not afford to dump much more money in this boat. Dealing with a Mercruiser 140 hp Alpha 1 gen 1. Sorry so long. Tomorrow I will have calmed down again. Thanks for listening to me vent.<br /><br />DougV>
