Friday night I jump in the family mini van to shop for the weekend on the boat and get 3 blocks away and the oil light comes on and lots of noise and knocking ....plenty of oil so it looks like an oil pump went. :cry:
Saturday were rafted with some friends very near Fire Island inlet and the boat we were rafted to is leaving for the night so I gotta drop the hook, press the windlass down button and click click thats it nothing press the up button and click click so I put my hand under the motor and can feel the clicks there so were getting electric to that point......OK cause were in an area that has a lot of current I'm not to crazy at this point to be deploying the spare anchor when I have other options for a safe night with friends,wife and two of my young children on board one being an infant so we head toward an area in the bay with a little less water,current and wind to settle down for the night
The current in Fire Island channel is pretty strong so were motor sailing when all of a sudden I hear this strange noise coming from the stern.....holy s...t no water from the exhaust
,I look at the temp gauge and its up there so I shut the engine down and focus on sailing this channel....why didn't the after market raw water alarm go off I'm thinking , so we sail for a hours back to the marina and call it a day. :dance:
Sunday I wake up and check the sea strainer and all looks good so next I pull open the raw water pump which is a real pain in the ass to get to on my boat and the impeller is wiped out....now I just replaced it last month and put maybe 3 hours on it and there's only 4 piece's out of 6 in the pump housing.....great where'd the other 2 go......found them in the oil cooler and got them out by using the garden house at the other side while my 7 year old daughter held the output host in a bucket and looked for the pieces, we got them both now I'm puzzled why this impeller failed so I think about the water stain at the seal area I noticed when I did changed the impeller and said to myself "self you should keep an eye on this" truth be told this pump is in a spot that fiberglass covers that are screwed on prevent me from really keeping and eye on it and when I looked at the stain this time it looked like there was more so now I have now choice but to spring for a whole new pump....ouch it was a lot of $$$ but I'm heading offshore in a few weeks so I'm glad it happened now and I'll have the old pump rebuilt and stash it for a spare.
anyone have this experience with raw water pumps and seals
So I have to buy a new car, probably a new windlass cause the motor looks like a pile of rust
Saturday were rafted with some friends very near Fire Island inlet and the boat we were rafted to is leaving for the night so I gotta drop the hook, press the windlass down button and click click thats it nothing press the up button and click click so I put my hand under the motor and can feel the clicks there so were getting electric to that point......OK cause were in an area that has a lot of current I'm not to crazy at this point to be deploying the spare anchor when I have other options for a safe night with friends,wife and two of my young children on board one being an infant so we head toward an area in the bay with a little less water,current and wind to settle down for the night
The current in Fire Island channel is pretty strong so were motor sailing when all of a sudden I hear this strange noise coming from the stern.....holy s...t no water from the exhaust
,I look at the temp gauge and its up there so I shut the engine down and focus on sailing this channel....why didn't the after market raw water alarm go off I'm thinking , so we sail for a hours back to the marina and call it a day. :dance:Sunday I wake up and check the sea strainer and all looks good so next I pull open the raw water pump which is a real pain in the ass to get to on my boat and the impeller is wiped out....now I just replaced it last month and put maybe 3 hours on it and there's only 4 piece's out of 6 in the pump housing.....great where'd the other 2 go......found them in the oil cooler and got them out by using the garden house at the other side while my 7 year old daughter held the output host in a bucket and looked for the pieces, we got them both now I'm puzzled why this impeller failed so I think about the water stain at the seal area I noticed when I did changed the impeller and said to myself "self you should keep an eye on this" truth be told this pump is in a spot that fiberglass covers that are screwed on prevent me from really keeping and eye on it and when I looked at the stain this time it looked like there was more so now I have now choice but to spring for a whole new pump....ouch it was a lot of $$$ but I'm heading offshore in a few weeks so I'm glad it happened now and I'll have the old pump rebuilt and stash it for a spare.
anyone have this experience with raw water pumps and seals
So I have to buy a new car, probably a new windlass cause the motor looks like a pile of rust
