Good going, John! Congrats! Just keep nibbling at the remaining small problems, and you'll get there.
A story of the engine that could.... Then didn't…NOW DOES
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I want to know when SV Hadley is ready for the Vancouver circumnavigation!When do we get to see a video of SV Hadley motoring out of the harbor into open water?
dj
- Oct 22, 2014
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I want to know that as well !
I’m back in Salem. Have to take care of the animals til mid July, while my wife goes and parties with her grade school girlfriends in Michigan. It’s her pilgrimage back-to the home state.
Mid July I am planning to do a sea trial in the Sound. Then I’ll be able to plan my further adventures.
I’m back in Salem. Have to take care of the animals til mid July, while my wife goes and parties with her grade school girlfriends in Michigan. It’s her pilgrimage back-to the home state.
Mid July I am planning to do a sea trial in the Sound. Then I’ll be able to plan my further adventures.
- Oct 22, 2014
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I have been at the boat for 2days. While the engine is in the boat and the shaft basically aligned, there are still Details that need addressing. The raw water pump is leaking still.
I got the engine electrical and fuel lines connected. I started it today. Then shut down do to the leaking water.
I got the engine electrical and fuel lines connected. I started it today. Then shut down do to the leaking water.
At the risk of admitting to not going back to find out if you earlier explained it, where is it leaking from? Weep holes? Gasket to engine? Other?
Otherwise good to hear good news. Hi to Les, too.
- Oct 22, 2014
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Les says Hi.
It looks to me as it is leaking from the bottom of the cover. Not sure why. I tried to enhance the gasket. I tried to smooth the cover surface. I got new screws. I put in a new gasket and secured the 4 screws. I used RTV to enhance the gasket. Looks like it did not work. I’ll open it all up tomorrow and try again.
It looks to me as it is leaking from the bottom of the cover. Not sure why. I tried to enhance the gasket. I tried to smooth the cover surface. I got new screws. I put in a new gasket and secured the 4 screws. I used RTV to enhance the gasket. Looks like it did not work. I’ll open it all up tomorrow and try again.
On the water leak, make sure that you eliminate the possibility of the leak coming out of the weep hole. Surface tension can pull the water from the weep out to the front cover and give the appearance of the leak coming from that sourse.
I agree with @Hayden Watson
If you have resealed the cover, the next place to look is the shaft seal.
This is still great progress. You have a running engine!
If you have resealed the cover, the next place to look is the shaft seal.
This is still great progress. You have a running engine!
It sounds like your faceplate gasket. Is this right?
NOT a good idea. You are essentially doubling or trebling the gasket thickness and, thus,actually DECREASING the ability of the surfaces to properly mate.
KISS, use one or the other, not two or more. Those gaskets if paper, are always very thin. Which is also why any other material should also be, uhm, singular.
Yep. This is a case where more is not better. Increasing the thickness of the gasket will also create a gap on the sides of the impeller vanes which will allow water to bypass rather than build pressure.
you could put rtv on the edge circumferentially which would seal the gasket. Try it and see if it weeps. Nothing porous there so rtv should clean up easily. Gives you a data point..