you're probably right about this because when the boat is in the water you would never see the water coming out of the lower unit mounting bolt. there is no gasket sold anywhere that i've looked and from the little information that i can find some people are saying that it's okay and that it is...
I have been reading about this and others are saying that this is a Cast-in Cavity weep/drain hole that exhaust water will come out of when running in water? There is no gasket for this model, and only one of the bolt holes are shaped like that
Thank you for response, the water bubbles out from the right front bolt hole while running in a water barrel. I have never ran it like this before so I don’t know?
I am working on my 1989 Force 50hp and after I bolted the lower unit back up and run it in a barrel water comes out of one of the bolts? Is this normal, misaligned or need sealer put on the bolts. I have never noticed this before
I just ran into the same problem. May not be the right way but I used a large crescent wrench adjusted a little more than the driveshaft diameter and used a hammer and tapped it up and off. From reading about this I found that the retainer should be replaced to 1-7/8” from the top of the...