jcjones
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Daddubo: Thanks for the suggestion of simple green, I didn't think of that. I was planning on using some Super Clean but I'm concerned that it would damage the fiberglass - it's some pretty caustic stuff. I may try some liquid laundry soap too like Tide or something. At any rate it's going to be a bit of a job to get it all nice an clean again (prior to this incident my bilge was sparkely clean with no oily residue or even dirt).
tdappleman: I've managed to the standing goo drained out the bilge drain hole and captured for proper disposal. The coating that's left on everything I'll clean at the local car wash that captures and recycles the water used to wash cars with. I may not be an "enviro-nut", but I'm certainly enviornmentally concious.
sprink56: I've got the use of a large automotive shop to do the work in with a celing crane to pull the engine easily and a nice temperature controlled enviornment.
ARCADIE IV: The Starboard engine filling up with water make it heavy enough to cause the list. It didn't take long to completely fill up the crankcase and start spewing the foamy oil/water mix out the crankcase vents and all over the top of the engine. The goo in the bilge is what ran off the top of the engine into the bilge, of course coating everything in it's path along the way. Whatever happened was letting a lot of lake water into the crankcase. I'll know more once I get the engine out and torn down. It never did hydrolock or miss either one. It was a little slow to rev up in neutral just before it started spewing goo but I theorize that's because it already had a frothy mess at that point in the crankcase which gave some resistance to the crank turning.
1956olds: Thanks for the suggestion - I'll look them up if I can't find a donor boat / engine locally. I may have found one that I'm going to look at this weekend (fingers crossed)...
83searay: Send you a PM already. I can find all kind of OMC manifolds for the 5.7, 4.3, etc. but just can't find anything for the 3.8. Hopefully the 4.3 manifolds are the same dimensions where they bolt to the block and I can just do some exhaust plumbing to make a center rise 4.3 manifold work.
tdappleman: No worries - in most cases somebody indicating they can't find something is because they haven't looked very hard or used online resources. This is kind of a unique case (even for classic OMC stuff) since I've been able to find somewhere just about everything else I've needed - just not these manifolds.
Again, thank you all for your suggestions. Hopefully this donor boat will have a good engine (and good manifolds that will last at least until I can find a way to make something else work). The other benefit is that I'll have some spare Stringer 800 parts if I can negociate a fair price.
tdappleman: I've managed to the standing goo drained out the bilge drain hole and captured for proper disposal. The coating that's left on everything I'll clean at the local car wash that captures and recycles the water used to wash cars with. I may not be an "enviro-nut", but I'm certainly enviornmentally concious.
sprink56: I've got the use of a large automotive shop to do the work in with a celing crane to pull the engine easily and a nice temperature controlled enviornment.
ARCADIE IV: The Starboard engine filling up with water make it heavy enough to cause the list. It didn't take long to completely fill up the crankcase and start spewing the foamy oil/water mix out the crankcase vents and all over the top of the engine. The goo in the bilge is what ran off the top of the engine into the bilge, of course coating everything in it's path along the way. Whatever happened was letting a lot of lake water into the crankcase. I'll know more once I get the engine out and torn down. It never did hydrolock or miss either one. It was a little slow to rev up in neutral just before it started spewing goo but I theorize that's because it already had a frothy mess at that point in the crankcase which gave some resistance to the crank turning.
1956olds: Thanks for the suggestion - I'll look them up if I can't find a donor boat / engine locally. I may have found one that I'm going to look at this weekend (fingers crossed)...
83searay: Send you a PM already. I can find all kind of OMC manifolds for the 5.7, 4.3, etc. but just can't find anything for the 3.8. Hopefully the 4.3 manifolds are the same dimensions where they bolt to the block and I can just do some exhaust plumbing to make a center rise 4.3 manifold work.
tdappleman: No worries - in most cases somebody indicating they can't find something is because they haven't looked very hard or used online resources. This is kind of a unique case (even for classic OMC stuff) since I've been able to find somewhere just about everything else I've needed - just not these manifolds.
Again, thank you all for your suggestions.
Hopefully this donor boat will have a good engine (and good manifolds that will last at least until I can find a way to make something else work). The other benefit is that I'll have some spare Stringer 800 parts if I can negociate a fair price.
