Next on the list was to replace most of the engine hose.

I didn’t have enough to do all of it, so I replaced the heat exchanger hose, the fuel hose and the raw water hose.

Since the heat exchange had now moved over the other side, I had to mount the hoses around the engine compartment. To do this I used zip ties and screwed in mouting plates that looked like this

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You can see how the hose runs.

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Once that was done it was time to look at the raw water strainer.

I had an old perko, extremely well made

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However the strainer was missing (SOMEONE had chucked it out earlier not realising what it was). When I went to buy a new one I saw that it cost 120 bucks! What!!

I didn’t want to pay that, so I bought another strainer for 37 bucks, and mounted it.

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It kind of blogs the engine door from shutting, so I have to move it back a tad, but apart from that, it works a treat!

 

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