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"El I appologise for heading straight to you on this one but i been reading up on the old posts and you appear to be the authority here...
You have a good idea on what I have been through in replacing the exhaust elbows, manifolds off, new gaskets, drilling / spark eroding bolts out ect. This week I did the timing, mixture and idle speed only to find out that Ive now got milky oil in the starboard engine. Water appears to be getting into the oil. I have a suspicion that I may have done this myself by fitting a fresh water hose direct into the pipe between the filter and impeller because the impeller wasnt strong enough to pull the water in from the tank I have the leg sat in while im out of the water. Sounds a bit strange but the water system was full of air so feeding a direct hose line seemed a better idea to flush out any air bubbles. I feel that the continued water pressure from a tap fed hose into the pipe as i stated above has forced water into the oil via maybe the manifold or head gasket. Apart from the obvious washing out of milky oil what do you think my best option is to find out where the water is migrating from ??? Head gasket or manifold ? Or should i simply wash through and run for time direct from the tank and see if the new oil goes milky ? Help."
"El I appologise for heading straight to you on this one but i been reading up on the old posts and you appear to be the authority here...
You have a good idea on what I have been through in replacing the exhaust elbows, manifolds off, new gaskets, drilling / spark eroding bolts out ect. This week I did the timing, mixture and idle speed only to find out that Ive now got milky oil in the starboard engine. Water appears to be getting into the oil. I have a suspicion that I may have done this myself by fitting a fresh water hose direct into the pipe between the filter and impeller because the impeller wasnt strong enough to pull the water in from the tank I have the leg sat in while im out of the water. Sounds a bit strange but the water system was full of air so feeding a direct hose line seemed a better idea to flush out any air bubbles. I feel that the continued water pressure from a tap fed hose into the pipe as i stated above has forced water into the oil via maybe the manifold or head gasket. Apart from the obvious washing out of milky oil what do you think my best option is to find out where the water is migrating from ??? Head gasket or manifold ? Or should i simply wash through and run for time direct from the tank and see if the new oil goes milky ? Help."
