Regardless of topics it is amazing to see so may enthusiast helping out in this case other sailors or to be sailors. Brother has a
boat in SC which I have sailed on many times I suspect I may never have enough free time to get my own
boat.
I have a question for all the knowledgeable people on this forum. I have a
Yanmar L100v that has about 2 hours on it, problem is that the
engine seems to have too much
compression at TDC for it to turn over via starter (battery fully charged) or by hand. I have used the same starter on another very low hour identical
engine and it works fine, decompress decompression lever, hit starter and it fires up as you would expect. the decompression lever works since it will turn over all day long with it on, let it go and as soon as it hits TDC the engine stops. Tried for the heck of it a thicker
head gasket, no dice. Valves are adjusted properly (TDC .010), am out of my wits with this one. Hoping someone has run into this before and figured it out. I ended up with the engine as it is so I have no
history on it.