Pump changed out.
Takes me 17 minutes to change out the raw water pump on my boat...easy and good access as I can fit into the lazarette and it's right there. Pulled the old one off and installed the one from my spare engine....it leaked worse than the one I took off.
So, with that I took mine home and hauled it apart. The grease shaft was so loose that I put some teflon on it and reinstalled....everything else looked OK...but looks can be deceiving. Returned to boat and did the change again. No leak this time and all seemed good. Ran engine for 20 minutes and then looked for evidence of water in oil as well....all OK.
Shafts are in decent shape on both. I initially though mine was iffy 5 years ago but I`ve always religiously kept the grease to it....there is a small mark but no scoring....that should be fine. So that`s the water in the bilge sorted out for now because it was siphoning from a leak in the raw water pump.
Also fixed a corroded grease cup with epoxy. Brushed it clean with bench grinder / brush and then mixed up some epoxy and beads....worked well. Pic attached.
Pic attached of ratchet wrench...worked perfect to remove the lower bolt on the raw water pump...there was nothing to it.
Takes me 17 minutes to change out the raw water pump on my boat...easy and good access as I can fit into the lazarette and it's right there. Pulled the old one off and installed the one from my spare engine....it leaked worse than the one I took off.
So, with that I took mine home and hauled it apart. The grease shaft was so loose that I put some teflon on it and reinstalled....everything else looked OK...but looks can be deceiving. Returned to boat and did the change again. No leak this time and all seemed good. Ran engine for 20 minutes and then looked for evidence of water in oil as well....all OK.
Shafts are in decent shape on both. I initially though mine was iffy 5 years ago but I`ve always religiously kept the grease to it....there is a small mark but no scoring....that should be fine. So that`s the water in the bilge sorted out for now because it was siphoning from a leak in the raw water pump.
Also fixed a corroded grease cup with epoxy. Brushed it clean with bench grinder / brush and then mixed up some epoxy and beads....worked well. Pic attached.
Pic attached of ratchet wrench...worked perfect to remove the lower bolt on the raw water pump...there was nothing to it.
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