Re: Stumped…AGAIN, 1962 OMC 10hp

[beerman57]

Don, It’s probably something I did or didn’t do, especially if this block didn’t have this problem before. But now I’m really stumped by this fuel coming out of motor mount holes and the shift arm through the midsection. The leak between the block halves is very small, I’m just so confused – where is all this fuel coming from, out bolt holes and shift arm thru the mid – a whole lot more compared to the spit coming from the block split. Like fuel running out the bottom of the block and being washed out any tiny opening by exhaust water and gas? This thing runs perfect, it does take 5-6 pulls cold, but will idle down to where you can just about count the rpm’s and has good get up and go – never sneezed once. So now, after running for about 5 minutes till I finally saw a spit of fuel from the block split – the block is still clean and dry, a tiny bit of fuel at the top of the block split, but fuel basically pouring out the midsection openings, I mean a lot.
It was just a bare block, white (Johnson?) For the last 3 hours of break in, I was/am going to run my 10" pitch prop and I’ll bet it would push my 13′ Feathercraft 23mph. Both of my QD11 (70psi) and QD19 did.