jimbouchie
New member
I,m new to outboard engine work and new to this forum. This motor has been sitting in a garage for probalby over 10 years without being run. I have the motor running, but not getting any water from the tell tail or from the exhaust tube. Smokes something terrible when I start it. I have fresh gas mixed at 50:1. I removed the lower unit and the impeller looks ghood as far as I can tell. Still soft and flexible, but I don't know what a good one should look like so I don't know. There is oil in the impeller housing though and I don't think there should be. Could my excessive smoking be caused by oil passing through the water cooling channel? I'm thinking I should replace the impeller, oil retainer and maybe the bearing housing gasket. I'd also like to replace the inlet water intate screen and plug, but how do you remove the old screen.