Water Leaking from sides of stern drive help

[Stewartwp05]

Water is leaking from here
And exhaust from here (bellow)


Is this normal?

 

[alldodge]

Plug is out and there is no water in the bilge, yet water is leaking around the housing?

If above statement is true then no this isn't normal. Bounce on the drive real hard to see if transom flexes. If it does, then transom is soft

 

[markhodges78]

Are you talking about what I have circled if so then yes perfectly normal for water to exit here while water is hooked to the boat ..

 

[Stewartwp05]

Are you talking about what I have circled if so then yes perfectly normal for water to exit here while water is hooked to the boat ..View attachment 376899

Yes what about the exhaust from the other side?

 

[Scott06]

Yes what about the exhaust from the other side?

Yes those are the idle relief ports exhaust and the spent cooling water it contains will come out when running on the muffs. It wont be even side to side in terms of how much water. I think on my 3.0 it mostly came out one side

 

[Bondo]

Ayuh,..... This has been asked, 'n answered in yer other thread,.....
It's perfectly normal, as I said before,....

 

[ddrieck]

It's when no water is coming out of that area that you need to worry. Bad impeller

 

[tank1949]

Water is leaking from hereView attachment 376896
And exhaust from here (bellow)

View attachment 376897
Is this normal?

That's an old boat/MC. The transom bolts with zinc caps are a boat sinker. Bolts are usually rotten. You are getting ready to spend some major bucks replacing, since you have to pull engine. However, I suspect water as gotten past bolt and rotted your transom. Sorry...