Sometimes the universe just comes together. The day after talking to Boat neighbours Joss and Matt about dinghies, a porta-bote finally shows up on craigslist. The day after that, Joss brings me an outboard! It’s apparently barely functional but the… Continue reading
One of the dreams of mine is to replace the diesel engine with an electric one. Electric engines are amazing and provide far more torque at low speed, are a lot more reliable and are quiet/non-polluting. There is one big… Continue reading
Being a quiet Sunday, I decided to do some miscellaneous bits and pieces on the engine I’d been putting off. First off was to rewire the alternator. This is the original wiring As you can see, the output from the… Continue reading
The last thing to do here was change the oil, and change the 3 filters – primary filter, secondary filter and the oil filter. First was the Primary filter – this is a rancor filter and first in line in… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
First thing to do was to move the heat away from it’s old position – IE above the batteries. In this position, if it vented coolant, it would vent right onto the batteries, which would not be a particularly great thing… Continue reading
As seen in my last post, Windchime wasn’t going anywhere without fixing the cooling system. I had established that water was running through the system ok, so I crossed my fingers and waited for the pump to be returned to… Continue reading
*still not moving As an update to my last post, here is a diagram of the front of the engine – I have drawn a box around where the seawater pump was (this is post removal) And this is… Continue reading