"beaufortnc" wrote in
ups.com:

Again - the drip is not from the faceplate, or other - from the place
where the pump body attaches to the engine block.



Pull off the faceplate and remove the impeller. Look back there from the
inside and see if it's cracked. Wiggle the shaft around to see if the
bearing is loose (worn out). If it's just drippin', and pumping fine, so
what?.....

Everyone in a sailboat needs to ride in the engine room of your favorite
shrimp trawler....for a little "reality check"....(c; Wear old clothes.
You might get sprayed with "something"...hee hee.

Our Perkins is always dripping "something" from "somewhere". Maybe it
had something to do with getting pumped full of seawater when the idiots
at the shipyard replaced the illegal, but great-working, grease-packed
packing gland with the dripless and hooked up the water injection line to
the Perkins without anyone thinking of a ANTISIPHON LOOP! Flooded the
hell out of the poor thing. The crankcase looked like the Exxon Valdez'
tarballs!

We pumped her out, replaced one of the injector mounts the big starter
dislodged, another injector that wasn't impressed, blew her out and
changed the oil a "few times" until what drained out looked like oil, not
seawater. Cranked her up and ran it all night to boil out the rest.
She's fine....like a fine watch. Great engine if it'll take that
abuse....

And, if you give up boats, you can pull the Perkins out and put it back
in the tractor it came from...(c;