Damage boat project

My guess is the cracked intake manifold leaked water into the lifter valley which put the water in the oil. Plus the exhaust manifold didn't help either. If I find anything other than what I'm doing now I'll be pulling the engine. There's a ton of access working in the boat.

I picked up a i gt40 intake manifold and got the gaskets this afternoon. I need to do a compression test to see the condition of the head gasket

Well as long as it is that torn down, pulling the heads & getting them checked for cracks wouldn't be a bad idea. Then you would be certain.

I started tearing down the engine today, stripped one exhaust manifold bolt, but got the other side off. Found a 2 inch crack in the intake manifold. I will get that taken off tonight and see if I can find anymore. Fingers crossed the problem was just bad manifolds

Charging battery right. Now but got a couple cranks out of it. Looks to be the left exhaust manifold is leaking right looks ok. I'm gonna pick up some oil tonight and change it out. By then I should the battery should be charged. Knowing how busy boat shops are this time of year it wouldn't surprise me if they just didn't have the time to really look into it other than pulling the stick

Mike,
Try to find the source of the leak before you toss it. Maybe change oil and run it to see if it's just a bad manifold. Out your way there's lots of salt water and it could be as simple as ruste through manifolds.

Others here who have figured out the way to isolate an internal crack leaking water into oil can weigh in here, as I'm sure there's many tricks to finding the leak path.

That's my 2c

well pulled the trigger on the second boat. Paid 2,100 for the boat and trailer. Trailer is garage, so ill be looking for a used one. I took a couple pics before i started to clean it up. Boat has 700 hrs. The tech said the oil was milky so it has a internal crack. Should i check anything or just pull it? I didn't have much time before work to do anything to it.

My 2 cents worth:   glad you are getting your feet wet. However I highly recommend you take into consideration the others that have pointed out the flaws in this repair.

Repair is NOT good. This is a higher stress area. Recommend highly that it be ground back from within and 1708 layers added. I would removed exhaust pipe and grind the ransom up about 8" and tab in from there to tie in the repair.

Please be aware that these hulls are laid up all at once, all resins cure together making a very strong chemical bond. You are adding a repair to an already cured surface and this is a mechanical bond, not as strong therefore you do have to add other layers and add them well beyond the repair needed.   

From outside it needs to be ground out some and properly layered with glass. water proof filler, not automotive bondo should be used only to even it up but NOT build it up.

Gel coat about 1/6 " thick or a little more is ok to finish the repair.   

great Scott!   Mike, I wasn't trying to be a negative nancy earlier, I wish you well with your project! 2k sounds like a pretty nice deal for an engine and trans used functional trans would probably be in the 5-700 neighborhood if I had to guess

10-4 thanks Gary

What motor's in it now??

it's not that everyone will post negative comments or bad mouth you..... I feel that with that "Bondo" repair still down in the strut mount repair of your first project, everyone here would LIKE to see you repair that correctly, so that it's done and safe for you or the next owner.

Good luck on both projects, if you decide to buy this second one, and I'll continue following the threads!

I enjoy the hunt for deals, keeps it exciting. Once u buy then u just have work to do. If I end up buying this second boat, I'll just find a good short block and hope the gt heads are still good or find some new ones. I want to swap that tower over to my first boat. I would almost hate to post that I get it for the fact of the negitive comments that would follow.

I fall into this category too, that's how I recognized the symptoms     my concern for mike is that he will have two boats that have signs of rushing/careless planning and he'll get stuck with both boats and no buyers.

I think the heads are different, correct?   seems that the accessories and the mounting positions would dictate whether you were going to re-engineer stuff or whether you would be able to get off the shelf parts for a Cleveland.   The exhaust manifold layout would be the big thing I would be worried about with a swap.   Resale in my opinion would also suffer, not from a run ability standpoint, but because now you would have Franken boat that no parts shop would be able to figure out.   finding parts would always be a hunt, and usually from automotive sources that could get you in trouble.    Just curious, why not finish the boat you have already?   get it to 100%, then get another one to dive into.     You seem like a consummate project guy, but it also seems you might have trouble with the last 10% of finish work... your excitement seems to be more about the hunt and the getting started parts than seeing your projects through to completion?    

The Cleveland and Windsor engines have little in common other than displacement at 351 inches.