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On 11 Apr 2004 15:30:47 -0700, (Airborne) wrote:

I recently purchased a 18 foot webbcraft with a Chevy 350 inboard
engine...im getting ALOT of water in the oil...so much that it is
puching it out the blow by on the valve covers..... is there a way to
tell if this is caused by a cracked engine block... i have also been
told that it could be because of bad exhaust manifolds...is there a
way to tell....i hate to rebuild the engine if it is a mainfold
problem and vice versa....

Remove the exhaust manifolds and risers. This can be done in about an hour by
someone like me whose never done it before. A helper would be nice, but not
necessary. I didn't have one. Once the manifolds and risers are off, the access
to the plugs is much better and you can probably do a compression test (as
suggested earlier) much more easily.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!