Salt water inside the gear box

[Simon helene]

Hi , I've had last year a lick from very likely the beginning of the exhaust tube.
When engine is running the water never enter ,when it stops slowly passes inside the gear box so in the next morning I get out from yhe oil pump like 1,5 l.
But I've done 200 nm in this condition every day removing oily water and adding fresh oil.
When I understand this problem was a few days I didn't check the oil level , so I just get a girl on the bus stop, and I wanted to bring her to city instead of the bus .
Was some days I need to use many time the key to start it , didn't go at ones . Do I was pushing too much battery take fire ... and she loses the bus jajaja.
So then I checked the oil level and was a grey salty mix almost coming out from the engine.
I've cleaned as much as I could ,take all out clean whith diesel , but the fly wheel got affected whith rust and now is hard to start .
Should I take out the engine and make it re check all?

 

[Boater Sam]

What vehicle are you talking about? Is it a boat? Engine type? Gearbox type?
You have 2 problems, water in the gearbox and rust on the flywheel starter gear, both probably caused by the same leak?
I take it that English is not your first language? Where are you?

 

[Simon helene]

Jajaja sorry I am Italian whith a Norwegian colin archer , ford 275e 120hp.
Yes this are the problems but my main question was about the rusty fly wheel that is make a hard start.

 

[Refueler]

If you have a gearbox such as the PRM ... where you have an oil cooler - then water in the gearbox could be failed tubes inside the oil cooler.

I had this happen with my Perkins .. the PRM gearbox cooler is fed raw water from the same raw cooling water that cools the engine..... the tubes inside fell apart and the water was then free to mix with the oil into the gearbox.

Like you - I kept changing the oil - in fact the gearbox was literally emptying itself slowly ..... until I got back to home port and had the oil cooler replaced.

 

[Simon helene]

I replaced oil cooler and impeller do is should be this exhaust pipe that when the engine I'd off keep some water in . A crack probably. Because is the only remain part where salt water is passing tru.

 

[Boater Sam]

The only way to get water into the gearbox oil is either from the oil cooler leaking internally or by flooding over the gearbox breather.
The rusty flywheel is only from water running over the engine/gearbox external or by flooding the engine in water.
Why will it not start? Does it turn over? Or is it the motor that will not spin?

 

[Simon helene]

The engine runs well , it only take many keys turn and battery charging to start. Because flywheel is hard . The engine flood from inside when the engine is off in the port. Only. I'd from 1984 so no turbo. Ones is on it run and no water get in .

 

[Boater Sam]

I have never had a flywheel so rusty that it prevents the gears from meshing. Are you sure that the pinion on the starter motor is not the problem?
What do mean that the flywheel is hard? If it is rust I would take the starter out and get to work with a file on the gear ring teeth.

 

[Simon helene]

I've senn it almost orange, I got I new starter, the flywheel at the first keys turns, make just tak , so sound completely stuck then after 10 times start to move and at the 20th might start , all those starts of course kill the battery so I only start engine under charge.

 

[Refueler]

I have a similar problem of starter meshing with flywheel ... its because guy who repaired the starter used the wrong 'cog' on the starter ... it fits when you turn by hand etc .. but when the starter spins - 3 out of 5x - it just grates as it doesn't mesh... or you just get a TAK TAK sound as the cog tries to engage.

It turned out cheaper to buy a new starter - which now waits to be fitted once weather warms up a bit !!

 

[Boater Sam]

Get a file on it!
Just repeatedly engaging the solenoid should not flatten the battery. Be certain that you have not got a bad connection and that the starter is starved of amps.