on my 2012 mercury 60 horse boat motor where the water comes out No water comes out all the time, brought it home to winter ready it, lower unit check, and fill, grease motor, grease trailer, and I thought I would put the ears on the motor and run it a minute or two kinda move the oil around... well nothing came out of the P hole, shut it down checked and this reddish brown, sea weed looking piece was pooching out, flicked it out and started the motor and it sprayed good, shut it off waited a few minutes started it again, Nothing, did this 3 times. water came out 3 times, took boat back to dock, started it and darn nothing again, zipped to the dock right quick put on lift and checked out the p hole again, same sea weed looking gunk, it is soft, and not much to it, flick it and it comes to pieces.
so have any of y'all had this problem. and one more question How hard is it to pull bottom off and check impeller and such.