Fresh water cooling leak at transom HELP!

[tweeter225]

I hooked up the hose this afternoon and fired it up, i got water coming in on the inside of the transom just to the right of the water line that runs down to the oil cooler. it's about a 1/2 in hole and it is just spitting water out of it. what the hell is causing this?

 

[Old Navy]

That picture is very bad, that's probably no one is replying. Could you post a better one? Which drive?

 

[Jimway]

Is that the 'water pocket' fitting that is possibly missing the bolt, or sheared off head, that fastens it to the transom housing? Seems like there were some that were held on with two bolts and some had three?

 

[tweeter225]

https://youtu.be/MpXkZPdCZnQ

Here is a link to a video i took of it, you can see with it running that it just spits water out that hole next to the raw water neck on the transom. i talked to a guy today and he said it is a breather hole for the bellows, and that my bellows must have been leaking, but this is still spitting water out and the bellows are brand new.

 

[tweeter225]

never mind, i figured it out, had to pull the outdrive to find that the o ring was of center and crushed causing it to leak into the drive bellow.

 

[Jimway]

Cool to hear that you got it fixed. Good to know what the problem was in case someone runs into a similar issue in the future.