Michaelcj5
New Member
- May 22, 2022
- 19
- Boat Info
- 2008 sea ray 185
- Engines
- 4.3 mercruiser
Hi all I'm trying to help my in-laws out by doing some research on an issue they have. First time out since winter and the boat idled ok for about 5 min to get out of the no wake zone then when he went to start rolling on throttle it blubbered and died opened the engine cover and oil water milk shake is everywhere. I went over and took the exhaust manifolds off and pulled the plugs and water pour out of 4 of the 6 cylinders. I pumped the oil out from the dipstick tube and we got about 2.5 5 gallon buckets of water before hitting milk shake again. I hooked up a compression tester to the number 1 cylinder and it hydro locked on just a bump of the key so I pulled the tester back out and turned it over a bunch and it kept pouring water in the cylinders with no hose hooked up at all. He did not do any type of winterizing last winter and we had a bunch of 5 to 15 degree days so maybe cracked something. I don't know much about boats so hoping there's a good place to start minus ripping the entire engine apart. Any help is appreciated thanks