This is a boat that came in at the beginning of the season with a bad starter. We replaced the starter and all seemed great.
He came back a few weeks later and said the starter had gone out again. When we had the starter off, we rotated the engine 360 and looked through where the starter had been removed to inspect the teeth on the flywheel. All the teeth looked to be in great shape.
We put another new starter on, all seemed to be good, and sent him on his way.
Now for the third time he comes in with a starter failure. This time it appears as if the engine is locked up. That would explain why it would be eating starters. We decided to pull the spark plugs to to have a look at the plugs and maybe do a compression test. When we pulled the spark plugs, there was water on ALL of the spark plugs. Since the starter had failed trying to turn over a hydro-locked motor, we had to turn it over by hand.
This is the video of what we found - WATER in ALL of the cylinders. For the life of me I can not come up with a senerio that would cause water to be getting into all the cylinders on both sides of a V-6.
Leave a comment if you can come up with any ideas!!!
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