oil leak

Some of you may remember me as the fellow who recently bought a nice looking Ericson 30+ 1984 in Seattle and had 20 questions about it. Here's two more: On the way to the yard for haul out, it started leaking about 1-2 shot glasses of oil an hour from the rear main seal. Has anyone had this...

We went for a day sail not too long ago and, because my engine is old, I check it frequently when we stop after running a bit. I noticed that it had blown oil out of the top of the two nuts that hold the valve cover on. I checked for blow-by through the oil fill plug and sure enough there was a...

I have a YSM8 engine that appears to be leaking oil. It seems to leak only when running but I haven't completely ruled out a slow constant leak. The bottom of the engine sat in fresh (rain) water for an unknown but probably long period of time leading me to believe that one or more gaskets could...