Quote Originally Posted by R Pope
If the gasket is just seeping it won't show up in the oil. Difficult on a boat, maybe, but water will show up in the exhaust gases if you put a cold piece of glass near the outlet. Much easier with individual pipes, of course. Or antifreeze, it stinks. Hard to find a lakefull of the stuff, though!
Just the fact that they are side by side keeps pointing back to the head gasket.
Just have to put a set of " Ears " on the motor, and connect them to a garden hose. they will provide the nessasary water supply to the engine w/o having to be in the lake.