OIL GONE! ZIP! NADA!

[northchannelsailor]

I can see the top of the drain plug on the side. No oil from there. These pictures I think are more in the centre. At least I think that's where my probe was.

[joe_db]

If there is a plug in the bottom, that is not standard.

[northchannelsailor]

I think it is the studs in the centre behind the flywheel housing. Should there be a stud in the middle hole which is slightly lower?

[northchannelsailor]

Anyone have a picture of the bottom or oil pan?

[northchannelsailor]

This is the hole I think I could see. Should there be a stud?

[Administrator]

Image below. Also, look here and here.

HTH.

[ndutton]

The hole you circled, the center one at the bottom of the pan, is intended to remain open. It does not have anything to do with the wet oil area of the pan but is instead a path for errant liquids inside the flywheel housing to have a way out.

I took a close look at my spare engine currently sitting level on a test bed and filled with oil. The hole is clear through the solid pan flange into the flywheel housing and remains bone dry.

[roadnsky]

The hole you circled, the center one at the bottom of the pan, is intended to remain open. It does not have anything to do with the wet oil area of the pan but is instead a path for errant liquids inside the flywheel housing to have a way out.

I took a close look at my spare engine currently sitting level on a test bed and filled with oil. The hole is clear through the solid pan flange into the flywheel housing and remains bone dry.

I took a couple of pics today.
As Neil points out, that hole doesn't get a plug or bolt.
It's open and dry.

As we've already pointed out, the drain plug is on the Starter/Alt side and forward. Right behind the flywheel.
Which is an interesting location because that is almost the highest point in the engine rather than the lowest.

[northchannelsailor]

I got a visual on the plug. No oil around that area. It's all where the two bottom studs and and that hole is.

[joe_db]

Time to add more oil and see where it comes out?

[CajunSpike]

What about putting some sort of oil sop towel under the engine? From the oil stain you would at least know what area the oil is leaking from. Anybody considered the rear engine/trans seal yet?

[northchannelsailor]

I don't see lock washers like that on mine.

Is this job of lifting the engine better done on the hard or in the water?

[joe_db]

Either is fine. I would never try and get the engine off the boat on the hard with the ship's tackle, you would be hanging 300 pounds or so off center on jack stands

[sdemore]

I installed mine on the hard (it came in pieces, in boxes). I used a come-along in about the middle of the boom, with a halyard supporting the boom in the same place, and got it into the cockpit. Adjusted placement of the come-along and halyard and lowered it down through the companionway. Never an issue in doing it and never stressed anything. I did most of it by myself, with my wife helping keep it from spinning as it went through the companionway.

[northchannelsailor]

Either is fine. I would never try and get the engine off the boat on the hard with the ship's tackle, you would be hanging 300 pounds or so off center on jack stands

That could turn pear shaped for sure!