So I have an issue in my 96 Challenger with the single 787. This is my third season using it and just had this happen a couple of days ago.
The issue is a milky, greasy/oily water mixture in the bilge. This just happened a few days ago where I never had this problem before and now I create a hell of a rainbowy mess in the water when the bilge pump goes on, not to mention the engine compartment spraying this stuff all over the place. I'm guessing that by the smell (rather like grease, not oil) and the look of the stuff that I may have overfilled the PTO grease fitting (the zirc fitting under the plastic protective cover just after the engine)? I'd read to grease this up every season but maybe my limited use last year didn't require it much and when I pumped in the new grease the rubber boot expanded slightly and a touch of grease came out of the rubber boot. Have I messed this up and could this cause the milky/greasy mess? Do I now need to fix/replace something or just clean up the engine compartment/bilge area? I'm thinking it did the same thing as my trailer wheel hub bearing greasing that flung grease from the escape hole and made a mess
Maybe I'm a chronic overgreaser. One more thing, I greased the PTO fitting a couple of weeks ago and used the boat then with no issues but it was fairly light use, just two of us cruising with limited WOT runs. This time we were tubing/skiing and putting the boat through lots of WOT runs and heavy use. Only other differences are change to Amsoil Interceptor at the same time as the leisurely runs couple of weeks ago, and this past week I had some fuel spillage in fill area when filling from gas can. Sorry for the longwinded post but I want to give complete picture and hope it's not something serious.
Thanks for any help
Maciej
The issue is a milky, greasy/oily water mixture in the bilge. This just happened a few days ago where I never had this problem before and now I create a hell of a rainbowy mess in the water when the bilge pump goes on, not to mention the engine compartment spraying this stuff all over the place. I'm guessing that by the smell (rather like grease, not oil) and the look of the stuff that I may have overfilled the PTO grease fitting (the zirc fitting under the plastic protective cover just after the engine)? I'd read to grease this up every season but maybe my limited use last year didn't require it much and when I pumped in the new grease the rubber boot expanded slightly and a touch of grease came out of the rubber boot. Have I messed this up and could this cause the milky/greasy mess? Do I now need to fix/replace something or just clean up the engine compartment/bilge area? I'm thinking it did the same thing as my trailer wheel hub bearing greasing that flung grease from the escape hole and made a mess
Maybe I'm a chronic overgreaser. One more thing, I greased the PTO fitting a couple of weeks ago and used the boat then with no issues but it was fairly light use, just two of us cruising with limited WOT runs. This time we were tubing/skiing and putting the boat through lots of WOT runs and heavy use. Only other differences are change to Amsoil Interceptor at the same time as the leisurely runs couple of weeks ago, and this past week I had some fuel spillage in fill area when filling from gas can. Sorry for the longwinded post but I want to give complete picture and hope it's not something serious.Thanks for any help
Maciej
