What a mess!!!

[FireAsh]

I have been having some problems with the engines on my Challenger 1800, when putting it in the water and starting the engines up I have white smoke pouring out of the exhaust, a lot of white smoke. I have been reading up on some of the posts here and decided I better start with doing a compression test. I pulled all the plugs out and started with the first cylinder on the port engine. I couldn't get the boat to crank over to give me a compression reading. Unhooked the tool and put on the second cylinder and went to push the starter button in which it cranked over and I immediately heard the spray of oil all over the ceiling, walls, wife's car and everything else in between. I apparently forgot to shut the valve from the oil tank to the engines the last time I took it out of the water. I'm guessing the all of the oil leaked into the cylinders on the engines. I an not a mechanic and have no idea what to do now. Any help? Thanks.

 

[Dr Honda]

Well.... if you have oil seeping into the engine that quick... it's time for a rebuild. Basically, the center crank seals are shot.

But first... wash the wife's car. (lol)

 

[FireAsh]

Forgot to mention, it's been since July 4th since I have had the boat in the water, does that make a little difference in oil seeping? And first thing I did was wash the oil off her car and then spent then next hour scrubbing the oil off everything else. Hope I never have to do that again.

 

[1800chall_tim]

i got the same boat with the same problem.if my boat sits for more than a week i will have oil in the crank case. once you rid the oil and the rest burns off (smokes like crazy) everything will run great. there is a couple ways to temporarily deal with this. 1) use hose pinchers on the two oil lines that go to the crank case (one is to rotary valve and one is return line to oil tank) don't forget to remove before you ride! i have three pinchers on my boat and when there is pinchers on the lines i also put a pincher loosely behind the choke nob for that engine so i don't forget to remove the pinchers. 2) if the oil still seeps in because the pinchers are to far from the engine what i do is take my wet/dry shop-vac and put it over the spark plug hole (with the plug caps properly grounded)with shop vac running i then turn over the engine in a few short bursts,cranking for long periods of time will over work the starter and it will heat up. after enough oil is out so the engine will start, what i do is run that engine hooked to the hose for a few minutes so that when i get to the lake it don't smoke for quite as long. it's kind of embarrassing when all the granola chewing tree huggers are watching me smoke up the whole landing!!!! needless to say, this winter i am pulling the engine (portside) and replacing it with a remanufactured engine . sorry about the bad news, i found out mine were bad a week after i paid blue book for my boat!!!!

 

[1800chall_tim]

FireAsh, BTW what part of wisconsin? lake superior is a blast with these boats! headed to manitowish waters in the morning.

 

[FireAsh]

FireAsh, BTW what part of wisconsin? lake superior is a blast with these boats! headed to manitowish waters in the morning.

Live near La Crosse, spend our time on the Mississippi.