[Public-List] After 3 oil changes... William raises an interesting point

[Daniel Sternglass]

> Hi Mike....
> If after 3 oil changes you still have water in your system.....then
> you better check where the water is coming into your engine. You
> might look for broken leaking caskets,water pump seal to the engine
> etc.etc. Good luck. William

Hi William, Mike,

It did take me 6 oil changes after my boat filled with water, as the 
mechanic predicted. There was no leak from the cooling system, the water 
had entered through the so-called "oil fill" which I had accidentally 
left open. :-(

But you do raise an interesting and possibly very important point -- If 
the water is entering the oil system slowly through a crack or leak in 
the cooling circuit, it might be necessary to aggressively _drain the 
cooling system_ to keep water from continuing to be pumped into the oil, 
or maybe Mike has already done this. In that case, you may want to 
remove the impeller, and don't run run the engine more than 20 seconds 
or so at a time, and keep on pumpin'. If in doubt, I would strongly 
suggest a call to Don Moyer, this qualifies as a difficult situation, 
and he is very friendly and helpful.

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