I was troubleshooting some water in my crankcase today and ended up taking a look at the exhaust. This came with some good news and some bad news.
Good news: I know why I was getting water in the cylinders... it was backing up through the exhaust.
Bad news: The reason for the backup is the previous owner tried to mend the exhaust together with some sheetmetal and a bunch of hose clamps. This probably wouldn't hold the necessary pressure to eject the water from the muffler leading to a backup. Take a look at the below photo, at some point someone cut the old riser with a hack saw then added a 6" threaded nipple below it and mended it with sheetmetal (removed in the photo).
I tried to take off the cut portion of the pipe but the engine has been running hot for so long (another problem with the impeller being sheared but now fixed) that it's practically fused. I had a pipe wrench on it with a three foot pipe on the end of that for leverage... it wouldn't budge. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Can I get some sort of gasket to keep the two pipes together?
If it helps this is on a 1971 Tartan 27 with the original engine, and a really dumb previous owner.
Good news: I know why I was getting water in the cylinders... it was backing up through the exhaust.
Bad news: The reason for the backup is the previous owner tried to mend the exhaust together with some sheetmetal and a bunch of hose clamps. This probably wouldn't hold the necessary pressure to eject the water from the muffler leading to a backup. Take a look at the below photo, at some point someone cut the old riser with a hack saw then added a 6" threaded nipple below it and mended it with sheetmetal (removed in the photo).
I tried to take off the cut portion of the pipe but the engine has been running hot for so long (another problem with the impeller being sheared but now fixed) that it's practically fused. I had a pipe wrench on it with a three foot pipe on the end of that for leverage... it wouldn't budge. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Can I get some sort of gasket to keep the two pipes together?
If it helps this is on a 1971 Tartan 27 with the original engine, and a really dumb previous owner.
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