6hp Mercury !!!!

[quintrex101]

guys had a look at a 11 footer today and it had a 6hp mercury on it ... its a 94 model ... when the guy started it .. it was fine and then he turned it off and then we kept looking at the boat and then i had a look at the prop and notice a bit of oil leaking from it .... is this normal ... what could be the problem


thanks heeps

[TomMc]

did you ask the bloke about it?

[quintrex101]

no i should have tho

[Dog Catcher]

You're very vague in your description of where you saw the oil leak ???

Yep you did say you were looking @ the prop @ the time & if a clearish oil was leaking from the prop shaft then a very good guess would be a torn seal & most likely cause is fishing line compressed behind the prop washer

[quintrex101]

dc, it was leaking from the exhaust and i had a read on a other site and the guy said that, it is unburnt fuel/oil that is draining out of the exhaust. The motor might be running a fraction rich or if you do a lot of idling it will cause a build up unburnt oil to puddle in the exhaust, there is no problems with the motor and or the gearbox.

problem solved

[Dog Catcher]

All depends

If it's unburnt fuel/2 stroke oil mix then it wouldn't be runing as a leak like you described.

The oil would be pretty well black the colour of unburnt fuel.

Now if you're refering to Mully ??

The guy was correct going by the way you posted you're initial Q but moreso his reply was a very general one.

Now you said that you were looking @ the prop when you noticed the oil leak ???

You're prop is way down the bottom of the motor & your exhaust ports are up the top just under the powerhead.

So where was the bloody leak ???? :rolling laughter:

You still haven't told anyone where the leak was but your willing to accept one reply that isn't incorrect & you want to base buying a motor on that ????

No wonder I gave you the name Twit Top

Whoops 4got the S again :rolling laughter:

Daniel if you want peeps to answers your Q's in a more certain manner then you need to provide a bit more info than what you do, I know you're only a Yung Fulla but answer peeps Q's B4 you go off thinking the prob is solved.


Now where did you see the Bloody Leak ???????????

[quintrex101]

mate there was only abot of black coloured oil and it was only a bit of it about ahh no more then 5 tea spoons and i throught it was leaking it the motor was running for like 10 seconds

3048

[Dog Catcher]

5 tea spoons ????

You are Roking & where you circled ???

Definately a seal & if oil can get out then water can get in & if water gets in ???? gearbox dosen't get lubricated & what does that mean ???? bloody rebuild on gearbox

[quintrex101]

yep yep

whats it cost to replace the seal !

[quintrex101]

bump

do you know dc

[jacobvz]

man your pics are shakey

can hardly see what's going on

Jack

[Dog Catcher]

bump

do you know dc

Nope no idea !

But if you ask Fed nicely I've pretty sure the prob can get downgraded to just a Fuel Blockage :rolling laughter: