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Water coming out of one of the mounting bolts on lower unit

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Philbilly1

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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
 
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?
 

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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
 
When running in a test barrel that bolt should be well submerged.-----Water should be 6" above the impeller.-----You would not see that leak.
 
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 a Cast-in Cavity weep/drain? I will take it out on the water and run around and take it back home and see if i have any water mixed in with the lower unit oil. Even my boat repair shop doesn't have any idea because he rarely gets 1989 50hp Force engines in and seems like nobody likes them anymore
 
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