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bn 09-26-2009 04:01 PM

Moisture in Oil?
 
I changed the oil in my gen VI 502 mpi's to winterize the boat last weekend and found greenish-grey looking oil in the oil filter of one of my motors. The oil on the dipstick looked fine. I also saw some foam in the oil fill neck.

So I took the boat out today for a run with the fresh oil and new oil filter. The oil on the dipstick looked fine, but there was grey oil in the filter again and a white coating in the oil fill neck.

Could this be due to just condensation or do you think I am getting water in somewhere? The other motor had normal looking oil in the oil filter. Also, I changed the oil using a dipstick pump so probably did not get all of the old oil out.

Not sure if it matters, but I have Stainless Marine exhaust.

MER Performance 09-26-2009 04:38 PM

What are your oil and water temps?

GO4BROKE 09-27-2009 04:36 AM

The coating in the filler neck is condensation. They grey oil in the filter may be old sludge getting cleaned out. Water/oil mix looks like baby diahrea. The dipstick won't show anything unless you truly have an intermix problem. Did the oil level stay the same?

bn 09-27-2009 09:55 AM

I think that the water temp was around 150 - 160. I don't have oil temp gauges.

The oil level stayed the same.


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