Hi, I'm new to the forum but have been running a Segull Forty for a couple of years on my mirror dinghy. Last week I noticed that there was no cooling water coming out of the telltale and had to row most of the way home! I don't know how long the motor was running without cooling water being pumped around the internals but it was working properly for the greater part of the trip. I didn't have time to sort out the blockage until today and the motor stayed in the sailing club boathouse until this morning when I removed it and saw that a quantity of mysterious oil had been seeping out of the exhaust (?) tube....
Hopefully, it's just unburned two-stroke oil that wasn't flushed out because the cooling system was obstructed, but I'm slightly concerned. Can anyone suggest or clarify the exact nature of the problem?
BTW, I flushed the obstruction out of the cooling system with a garden hose as suggested on this site and, yes, you do get very wet! My Seagull is now expelling water as it should be in the flushing tank but I want to make sure that the seeping oil is not a problem before I return her to the back of my boat.
Cheers, Richard.
