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Johnson 4.5 CJ5RHCDE water in cylinders

paolo223

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Hey guys been lurking here for a while finally have a reason to post.

I’ve recently acquired this motor that has been sitting for close to 15 years. I cleaned the carb with a rebuild kit and got it running fine. Compression was 110 in both cylinders. I took it out fishing and it seems to not get to WOT, when I got home I found water in both spark plugs. I stripped the head and smoothed it out it was a bit warped. Other than a head gasket (on order) what could have caused this issues?
 
Well changed the head gasket and still a bit of water today I decided to remove the exhaust cover plate and found this. Looks like water might be getting past the cover plate gasket. Let’s see if changing this works.
 

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