Ok, so last year before storage - I changed the lower unit oil and did the fogging etc...
I stored the engine in the upright position with the holder in place.
I just took the boat out of storage and it was very dirty and dusty. I brought it to the hand car washer and washed it all down - inlcuding spraying alot of water around the engine area.
The I brought it home and put it in the garage and lowered the engine down for the first time.
Quite a bit of water leaked out - I imagine from the wash. However, in the water there was a pretty mottled amount of oil as it collected on the garage floor. I also noticed a little heavier oil - not so much water - but more oil from the area right around the bottom point of the skeg. The water and the mottled oil seem to come from right inside the propellar area - right on the back where it is round just below the washer that holds the prop in.
So....is this anything to be concerned about?? I am thinking the water must have come from the wash - but I wasnt expecting to see any oil coming out with it. I do know that about half way up the motor on the back side there are these vents. I think alot of water got into those vents during the wash. maybe it then trickled down and picked up some oil?
So...any advice or comments is greatly appreciated!!
(I should add its a 2003 mercury 75 HP. Non 4 stroke.
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Ok, so last year before storage - I changed the lower unit oil and did the fogging etc...
I stored the engine in the upright position with the holder in place.
I just took the boat out of storage and it was very dirty and dusty. I brought it to the hand car washer and washed it all down - inlcuding spraying alot of water around the engine area.
The I brought it home and put it in the garage and lowered the engine down for the first time.
Quite a bit of water leaked out - I imagine from the wash. However, in the water there was a pretty mottled amount of oil as it collected on the garage floor. I also noticed a little heavier oil - not so much water - but more oil from the area right around the bottom point of the skeg. The water and the mottled oil seem to come from right inside the propellar area - right on the back where it is round just below the washer that holds the prop in.
So....is this anything to be concerned about?? I am thinking the water must have come from the wash - but I wasnt expecting to see any oil coming out with it. I do know that about half way up the motor on the back side there are these vents. I think alot of water got into those vents during the wash. maybe it then trickled down and picked up some oil?
So...any advice or comments is greatly appreciated!!
(I should add its a 2003 mercury 75 HP. Non 4 stroke.
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