bizzard

They must be really well sealed then as stainless steel is not a good bearing metal for bearing tracks and balls.

These self aligning bearings are not really meant for marine use they're machine shop bearings for use in dry conditions. Only boat builders found them an easy way of avoiding using propper plain top bearings which entails accurate alignment of the bearing and skeg socket.

Paraffin is as good as Gunk was.

Another way to ensure the timing belt is replaced correctly without timing pins is to before it's removal Jamb the camshft belt wheel by banging a wooden wedge behind it firmly to stop it moving then paint marks across both camshaft wheel tooth and belt valley between teeth, same with lower crankshaft toothed belt drive wheel. Once the belt is off these paint marks can be transfered to a new belt if needed. These paint marks and transfer paint marks from old to new belts need doing very accurately. If the crankshaft or camshaft moves, all the paint marks will all align up and be corrected. I often did this on many different engines when no timing pins were handy. to be safe. Afterwards always turn engine over by hand before starting it up, to be sure as valves and pistons on diesel engines only just miss each other when running, ONE tooth out and they could collide, TWO teeth out and they almost certainly will.

I reckon it has a timing belt. The top half of the timing belt case comes off as is usual on timing belt engines. You can see the divide line between the upper and lower parts of the casing as a diagonal line from lower right to upper left. The pump would be bolted to the block inside the timing belts circuit and driven by the outer notched V belt

Homemade Meccano trivet to pre dry my Excel on.

I have a Lavatree in my bathroom.

And me. Smooth quiet petrol engine. Gas bottle standing next to the cooking stove, handy to turn off at the bottle after cooking or boiling the kettle. Leaky decks, rain water dripping into yer gob whilst asleep in a bunk.

Have you any flexible gas hoses in the system especially from the regulator or to the cooker itself. Sometimes they can degrade inside bits fall off and act like a one way valve blocking it.

Anyway, thanks Rod I have to pop out now, taking my lovely ancient dumbphone. So basically Jen folk are forced to keep buying new smartphones every so often when they're still working fine. What a con.

I think I'll shove it back on Ebay for sale should make a profit now it charges ok.. I believe you can de-google them, seen it on Utube.

That's diabolicle init when a phone still working well. Google's as bad as Microsoft.

That's a shame, a nice big sprocket and chain in it would work. I'll try the Googe store, thank you.

I searched for updates on it and the only one goes back to 2020 probably when it was new.

I bought a Smartphone from Ebay for £11 unlocked with a charging problem. It's a Nokia Android thing. I fixed the charging fault ok. Set it all up fine to use, but what worries me is because I had to use my laptops Google password to set it up I'm worried because I can't find a security suite on it at all , like AVG for example so if I use it I might get bad bugs and scams and all sorts because it is alied to my laptop by google and I don't want my laptop infected with nasties if I use it. I tried to download AVG FREE on it it's browser but it refused to do it.Thanks in advance.