My son and I have, as announced a few months back bought a new to us 1983 Soverel 33 with a single cylinder Yanmar 1 GM engine. My son has been working diligently on fixing the deck and hull areas that needed attention as well as a fresh coat of paint on the interior just to make her look nicer. Anyway he has started putting it back together in hopes of a launch with in a week or so. Last Wednesday we fired up the engine (after changing oil, oil filter and fuel filters) and surprisingly enough it rumbled to life pretty easily considering it had not been run for at least 4 years maybe 5.
I does appear that a new cutlass bearing is needed, we repacked the shaft log, but, after running the engine for a very short time last week we checked the oil and to our dismay the oil had gone milky.........now looking at the seawater pump assembly and the way it is driven off the end of the cam shaft we suspect that both the water and oil seals had dried up and water was allowed to pass thru the assembly into the crankcase.
My question to all you folks out there that have more knowledge than I could possibly acquire in a lifetime......... What are the possible avenues for water to enter the crankcase other than the seawater pump housing?? Would love to ensure that before we splash Aonbharr we have all the liquids staying in the right places.
I does appear that a new cutlass bearing is needed, we repacked the shaft log, but, after running the engine for a very short time last week we checked the oil and to our dismay the oil had gone milky.........now looking at the seawater pump assembly and the way it is driven off the end of the cam shaft we suspect that both the water and oil seals had dried up and water was allowed to pass thru the assembly into the crankcase.
My question to all you folks out there that have more knowledge than I could possibly acquire in a lifetime......... What are the possible avenues for water to enter the crankcase other than the seawater pump housing?? Would love to ensure that before we splash Aonbharr we have all the liquids staying in the right places.
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