1983 Ski Nautique - motor issues

[spenclo123]

Thanks for the insight. I guess I can buy one of those from Discount Inboard Marine? Appreciate the help.

[gary s]

I have found that the only gasket that fits correctly is the one from PCM. Any of their vendors Nautique Parts,N3,Skidim or Skidave will have them. I have tried them all,Holley,Mr Gasket etc. none fit. The one you have looks like the best but still not right.

You can see this one is off-



Here is the right one -

[Jonny Quest]

His open-bore gasket isn’t perfect but should work reasonably well. Now run it like you stole it!

JQ

[spenclo123]

thanks for the insight! Appreciate it!

[hal2814]

Yeah, it’s not super important that the barrels are isolated. Personally, I’m OCD enough to get the right gasket but I wouldn’t have any qualms running it in the meantime.

[spenclo123]

Thanks Hal2814, i'm like you and just ordered them from Nautiqueparts, but last night we were working against losing sunlight and my bro in law just happened to have one laying around his garage which was about 15 mins away from the marina so we went with it just to see if that was the issue :-)