I pretty well agree with all the other great advice you've gotten, but one item does prick my ears -
>The only place raw water touches the engine are the heat exchanger (which is >brand new) Any time you have a *new* part taht *could* be related to a failure, it's worth a second glance to check for infant mortality of the new part. jim On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:22 AM, S/V Kaleo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the replys and advice. I realize I should have given more > details in my email last night. > > I discovered the water after the engine had been shutdown for about 4 hours > (it had ran fine all day) and after I pumped the oil out this morning it was > still quite black i.e. Not grey or milky leading me to believe that the water > entered only after shutdown. The salty taste has me fairly convinced it's raw > water (were cruising in salt water). > > After changing the oil, I'm able to turn the engine over with a wrench, > meaning no hydraulic lock due water in a cylinder. > > I removed the exhaust hose from the back of the manifold and it was dry so > there isn't water coming in from the muffler and leaking into the cylinders > from a valve. > > The only place raw water touches the engine are the heat exchanger (which is > brand new) and the raw water pump which is shaft driven and connected to the > oil sump via a shaft and seals. I just discovered a service bulletin for my > motor that talks about how the seals fail and let raw water. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
