water comming out of fly wheel and starte

good afternnon.I read your forums all the time but never had to post anything till now.
please help! i have water comming out from the bell housing and starter area. only leaks when boat is on. could it be a freeze plug from behind the fly wheel? I will have to take it apart and check. can i leave the engine in place and just remove the trany? i am sure i have to soppurt the engine while i am doing this. any help would be appricated.
oh, sorry it is a 1965 mustang with a PCM ford 302

thanks for getting back to me critter,
boat is at cottage and sorry i know i should have taking pics. will do next time i am up there. should be this week end. so, i should disconnect shaft, disconnect trany mounts. i will have a support and a chainfall. losen bolts on front mounts and raise trany and motor on an angle, then remove as nessesary to check it out. thanks, i kind of figured what i needed to do, but a second opinion is allways helpful!

thanks again and will let you now.
the last time i tried to post pics for some reason it wouldn't let me. i will try again

i looked the other day and dont think there are cast plugs back there, just the cam cover plug, no water there...crack??? but why there?

Maybe someone can answer this but werent the 302 notorius for developing block cracks?

I have winterized this boat four times and never had a problem before but. i get a five gallon bucket of antifreeze and put it on the bow. i hook a hose up to my coolant hose and to the bucket of antifreeze. i let the antifreeze gravity feed it self to the engine. once there i start boat and let it run until it is all antifreeze comming out exhust then i let it run longer. the whole time i watch the temp. when the bucket is just about emty thats when i fog the carb. after that i drain all the block plugs and water pump plug disconnect all the hoses and let it drain. with all the hose disconnected i then pour more antifreeze into hoses. it just runs out the block drains but i do it anyways. i leave all the plugs out and the hoses dissconected for the winter. i take off the fame aresster and cover the carb. remove spark plugs and put a little mystery oil in then reenstall spark plugs just hand tight. plug exhust so no little critters get up there. cover the boat stick it in the gararge and cross my fingers till the spring. tilting the boat on the trailor seems would do the trick i will try it this winter. i will not know about the epoxy till this weekend and will let you all know
thanks again
Paul

dumb question but how do you add the antifreeze?

thanks

We'll all pray for the epoxy...it's not a permanent fix.

If you think the engine is starving for O2, then the vents are clogged or crushed.

Best of luck to you...really; summer can get short!

Gary, I meant what I said in the best of spirits. I've been known to use a band-aid more than once!

This of course was before I met CCFan...and that's why Amy is bent that our boat was in the garage this w/e. LOL

Gary S wrote: and thats why we got to meet up at GL this year so we can see where were all coming from!

All good; just making sure I wasn't coming off the wrong way.   

I do seem to have that talent.

But like you said, those who know me tend to have the largest list of complaints?!!?