Here is what the results could mean.
The boat is a 1975 Gulfstar 41 aux sailboat that I purchased and restore (restoration still in progress). My plan is take off within the next year. Head down ICW over to Bahamas and then south.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Water/Fuel in my perkins 4108
Looking at my oil I saw signs of water contamination as well as my oil level increasing every couple weeks when it sat idle. I sent a sample out to Blackstone Labs for analysis and it came back as contaminated. Here is the analysis.
So this means, I think, that I have a head gasket problem and an injector pump problem (since I inspected the lift pump and it looked OK). I am first going to try the head gasket leak solution first before I pull the head but an injector pump rebuild looks like it is in my future.
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