KA LUNK

[Steven UK]

Zeehag just reading through this post, because of funds and past experience I am thinking along the lines of picking up a older hopefully better built boat if I can find one with a bad engine I would get a better boat at a better price. Anyway back to the question when the engine ran away how did it eventually stop and what caused it? I have seen newer PERKINS run away but never an older one, they were fitted to millions of Massey tractors and gen sets.

Hope all is going well.

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by Steven UK

Zeehag just reading through this post, because of funds and past experience I am thinking along the lines of picking up a older hopefully better built boat if I can find one with a bad engine I would get a better boat at a better price. Anyway back to the question when the engine ran away how did it eventually stop and what caused it? I have seen newer PERKINS run away but never an older one, they were fitted to millions of Massey tractors and gen sets.

Hope all is going well.

right this instant i am coughing my asthmatic lungs out from raw diesel in bilges.
i am on fire aith each breath.

HOWEVER, i AM in best place to fix problems.
fuel pumps here are very very expensive. according to mexicans working with me
. but 1500 pesos is very very expensive to them. i will call on replacement price to my pump rebuilder in casimira costillo, 70 miles from here.
mine was not caused by blowby but by fail governor in injector pump. was stopped by cracking all injectors. i believe had it been blowby caused that the runaway would have continued despite cracking all injectors .
i was lucky, as my block and head and cam and crank were still good.
i bought this boat after po blew the f outta the westerfreke 107 used to be in her. dumped 15k off price as soon as i saw plume of black smoke in san diego. i replaced with perkins 108 used n ran.
i love this boat, she is comfy under sail even when rolly. biiig winds??!! ha ha... jib n mizzen, reef em n SAIL!!!
i am very pleased with this boat

[zeehag]

rodl....the inabiliry to achieve lift off was due to lever for kill pull, and slightly off time pump, we retimed. now post racor install we will bleed n enjoy more liftoff.
hooraaaay. one system nearly completely repaired.
poco a poco

life is an adventure meant to be LIVED!!!

[River Cruiser]

Good luck Zee hope you get the mechanical gremlins sorted and get on to sailing.


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[zeehag]

Originally Posted by River Cruiser

Good luck Zee hope you get the mechanical gremlins sorted and get on to sailing.


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once mechanic and i each and both recover from our diesel fume spawned and viral ills, we will be bleeding engine post racor install and going north and east, after install of depth transducer

[Therapy]

Originally Posted by zeehag

once mechanic and i each and both recover from our diesel fume spawned and viral ills, we will be bleeding engine post racor install and going north and east, after install of depth transducer

So your next thread may be "Blub Blub"?

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by Therapy

So your next thread may be "Blub Blub"?

it reads thru the hull, or might well be so... rodl..

have fun, kid... i am.

[Therapy]

Originally Posted by zeehag

it reads thru the hull, or might well be so... rodl..

have fun, kid... i am.

Whew!

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by Therapy

Whew!

mah brane still works...

[Tayana42]

Glad to hear you are making progress,Zee. Poco a poco.


S/V B'Shert