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Thank you Phil

Correct, negative results both times. Tonight I am going to try cleaning the telltale, i was getting water out of the exhaust as well, so SOME water was flowing through the engine.

Interesting that my service manual states that the engine may be run at idle only until operating temperature is reached using the flush port. There seems to be conflicting literature regarding this.

Regardless, that is why I only ran it for 30 seconds or so.

If needed this weekend I will drop the lower unit, I have had an instance (on a different engine) where an impeller was installed with the fins facing the wrong direction, the telltale was still functional, but weak and sporadic. I am curious if this maybe the case.