Can you tell us exactly where the water is coming from? Pictures of the leak
source would be extremely helpful. A video would be even better. Could be
you forgot to attach a hose or left a drain plug out. Could be the engine
was run without water and burned a hole in an exhaust tube. Could be a
cracked block or exhaust manifold. Running antifreeze thru an engine (the
Skipper method) is a hit or miss proposition and very wasteful of
antifreeze. Draining the engine and manifolds isn't hard. I don't know why
so many people are reluctant to do it.
Jim

"Bolisk" wrote in message
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Hello everyone!

I've seen and read a few post releated to water leak's, but I'm not
sure that they are the same as mine, so I decided to start a new
thread. Here is my problem.

1) 2000 Mercruiser 5.0L v-8
2) Alpha 1 Gen2 outdrive.
3) Engine is properly winterized following all the recomendations in
the shop manuals. A concentrated dose of antifreeze was run through
the egine (when hot), but not drained. This has never been a problem in
the past.

Took the boat out of winter (outdoor) storage to summerize for this
season. Connected the hose to the outdrive (just like the last 3
years) and proceeded to start the engine. Engine fried right up (only
has 300 hours on it). Immediatly I noticed that water was pooring off
the back of the enginee right into the bilge. I imediatly stoped the
engine and inspected the situation. Absolutely no water was getting to
the exaust ports in the transom plate, or the exhaust through the prop.
. .could be because I didn't let the engine run long enough.
Reguardless there was an awful lot of water falling from the back of
the engine. Next thing I did was check the oil, and there did not
appear to be any water in the oil. . .so the odds of cracked block I
would think was virtually nil. My immedate problem is that I'm a
fairly big guy and was not able to get deep enough into the engine
compartement to inspect the issue further.

I have since taken the boat to the dealer to have that issue
investigated and fixed. The service manager immediatly took a quick
look at the engine with a flashlight and mirror (a day after with no
water hooked up) and said that it didn't look like a cracked block, and
that he didn't know what the problem was but would investigate it when
my rotation on the schedule comes up.

So. . .the reason I brought my issue here is for three reasons. . .

1) the suspecnce of not knowing is killing me.
2) I would like to have an idea of what the problem might be before the
service center finally root causes the problem. Especailly if it's
easy.. .so I can fix it myself.
3) I would like to have a ball park estimate of what is involved and
the cost with fixing said issue.

Your oppinions please!

Thanks, and best regards,
Bolisk