"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:15:12 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

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If water's coming out from where the front of the prop meets the housing,
or
from one of the lower pivot points, what could be the possible causes? I
asking so I can spend a couple of nights with the service manual,
imagining
horror stories, and deciding whether to even bother with the hose test &
just take the thing to the dealer (an expense I'd prefer to avoid).

It's Bush's fault. :)

Obviously, but I'm not sure how the dumb fool could've figured out how to
get into the garage.



I'm having trouble imaging this problem. Is this the same extra spray
we were joking about last summer?

Yeah....I think we got as far as debating whether the front-to-back
aluminium (happy, Don?) strips under the boat were strakes, strapes,
sklapes, lap strakes, or strakelaps.


Is the prop loose? That might do it.
I'll check.

Is the engine working it's way
off the stern of the boat? Maybe crooked under power tilting either
right or left? Not centered properly? The skeg aligned? Everything
tight and/or properly torqued?

All OK, except I'd have to look at the skeg. I haven't hit anything, but my
son *did* wander into some mud & weeds at dead-slow speed last summer.



Help a brother out here. :)

I just went and looked at my Johnson 25 which should be the same
engine and I can't see anything that could cause extra spray other
than that I mentioned.

Maybe you changed the tilt rod and that's causing the spray?

Nope. Same tilt as always.

My fear (based on absolutely ZERO knowledge of the motor's innards) is water
escaping the cooling system and making its way out as a spray via another
gap in the lower part of the housing. But, there seems to be no decrease at
all in the flow from the normal spot.