Jcclark85
Member
- Dec 16, 2019
- 32
- Boat Info
- 2002 Sundancer 360
- Engines
- 8.1S Horizons
When back in our marina from a couple days on Put-in- Bay. I went down into the engine compartment to just look around as we had a pretty rough ride down and back. I noticed a couple drops of water on my waste tanks vent filter and thought it was odd, stared at it a little longer and then realized there was vertical water mark on the side of my waste tank itself. So go exploring a little more and find my port engines raw water pump is dripping water from a broken bearing seal onto the pulley wheel which is then getting on the belt and the water is being slung up the side of the waste tank. Anyways, I pulled the pump (pain the @ss on port side engine basically laying on top of the engine hanging upside down) and purchased a new pump and figured I’ll rebuild the old pump and keep it as a spare in case of another failure. So I started pulling the old pump apart today and this is what I found. The inner bearing was completely destroyed. And the outer casing of the inner bearing had siezed to the inner wall of the pump. I had to tape one end of the pump and fill it with PB Blaster to hopefully free it so I can rebuild. What’s crazy is I have no idea how long that’s been like this, we had a 4.5hr ride home at 23 knots and didn’t get an alarm or notice any engine temp increase or see any steam coming from the exhaust. Just sharing as if I had not noticed those couple drops I would not have noticed the issue.