Yeah I know that the picture is garbage. Its so far back in there that it
was hard to even get that shot.

It is a 165hp Alpha One I/O. The camera is looking from the inside the boat,
on the right side of the engine to inbehind the engine. The exhuast is
several inches down lower than the circled hole. At the same level as the
hole on the outside of the boat would be about 2 inches the top of the
outboat peice of the motor.

The hole does not look like anything ever connected there or went through
there. If something did go through there it would have been a bolt maybe
but that wouldnt explain why the metal all around the hole is bend up. It
looks like someone took a big screwdriver, crammed it through the metal and
worked it around a bit or sometihng.

I will try to get a better picture of it and the surrounding areas when I
get home so that you can tell whereabouts it is.

--C

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"Ree-Yees" wrote
http://home.comcast.net/~ree-yees/leak1.jpg

It's kind of hard to tell what we're looking at in that photo. Is that the
inside of the gimbal housing? We're talking about a 165/pre-alpha, right?
(I
thought I remembered that from a previous post.) What direction is the
camera looking toward and where is it looking from?

Off the top of my head, I can think of five penetrations to the outside
through the gimbal housing: You have the exhaust and u-joint passages, the
shift cable, the trim wiring, and the cooling hose. This doesn't look much
like any of those.