My fiance droped our boat off last week to be winterized, we have been bringing it to a guy that works from his home, he is a certified mech., used to work at Mn.Marine, it is a older boat with an 120 merc cruiser (IO) we do not have a garage to put it in so we had a elec. heater in the boat and had the boat covered.
So he calls the next day and says the boat is done, then a hour later he calls and said he took a look at the oil and there is white foam in it which means there is water in it and the block must be cracked then says he has a motor he will sell us.
What I would like to know is there any other reason there would be water in the oil, and should we get another oppion?
I find it odd he would check the oil after he winterized it.
I would like to think we can trust him ,we have been bringing our boat to him for about 3 years now.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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My fiance droped our boat off last week to be winterized, we have been bringing it to a guy that works from his home, he is a certified mech., used to work at Mn.Marine, it is a older boat with an 120 merc cruiser (IO) we do not have a garage to put it in so we had a elec. heater in the boat and had the boat covered.
So he calls the next day and says the boat is done, then a hour later he calls and said he took a look at the oil and there is white foam in it which means there is water in it and the block must be cracked
then says he has a motor he will sell us.
What I would like to know is there any other reason there would be water in the oil, and should we get another oppion?
I find it odd he would check the oil after he winterized it.
I would like to think we can trust him ,we have been bringing our boat to him for about 3 years now.
Thanks for any information or advice, Amanda
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