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hider

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  1. Whats the tank for, central heating? You have a calorifier heated by the engine and an immersion heater? Whats an overflow pipe on the engine for? is it on the radiator cap? Or are you talking about a PRV on the pipe near the engine? Picture of overflow please.
  2. Just leave it open, no problem.
  3. Sorry, I don't need to talk to anyone, i said a bit over a 9cm square hole, not a 9 cm square grill. Suggest specsavers and a manners course.
  4. Its simply the area of hole. You have to allow for any grill or louvre, most are marked with the free area. 8500 mm2 is a bit over a 9cm square hole, not a lot really.
  5. Your neighbours would like it too, saves banging on your boat after 8pm.
  6. The inlet valves have oil seals, non on the exhaust valves. Though you can fit them to all the valves, they are standard BMC B series cup seals.
  7. An unfortunate typo highlighted effectively.
  8. How do you know what the horse was called?
  9. Another boater that Boater Sam has helped then. Shame he was chased off the forum, where is he now? (I do know, will have a word with him one day)
  10. Do C&RT have insurance? No government or crown property is insured.
  11. Buffalo board with epoxy on the edges is better than hex grip boards. Unfortunately the coated hex boards are available in several qualities for truck decking and like most things today it seems only the lowest quality is generally available though still expensive.
  12. Just a thought, the crankcase breather is not blocked is it? If so it could blow more oil down the worn valve guides. You could just have an oil soaked silencer...........................................
  13. The crank will not be dipping into the oil with a small over fill, you would need gallons! What oil are you using? What size prop and gearbox ratio? You say full throttle on rivers, that is rare with a canal boat, how big is it? The 1500 D is not a powerful engine, with a worn one 27 HP would be good, fit for a 46 to 50 footer narrowboat on a canal at 4 MPH, not a 60 footer at 9 MPH on a river.
  14. I cannot understand why turning the dipstick allows it to go in further, something wrong there. It just fits in a tube with a stop ring on the stick. If oil is not getting in the air inlet, the oil has to be going via pistons/bores or valve stems or head gasket where the oil feed to the rockers comes through the head (unusual). Yet it starts well, very confusing. Valve stem seal wear usually allows oil to pass on tick over, then when revved the oil burns but clears with a wide constant throttle. But if the compression is good and it starts well I would be very surprised if it is bore and piston/rings wear. I would investigate the valve guides and seals first, in other words a head overhaul. at the same time the wear in the bores can be checked.
  15. Cut the olive off the broken end carefully with a hacksaw cut in line with the pipe. Do not cut into the pipe, stop sawing when there is a whisker of olive left. Stick a screwdriver in the cut and twist, the olive will open. Cut about 4mm off the end of the pipe so the new olive will be on a fresh bit of pipe. A new compression fitting and you are done. Don't over tighten the nuts, they split!
  16. .Apologies Callum for suggesting that the attention was wanting. I should know better. As always the full story is very different from the assumption. Sorry. Dunc or should it be Dunk?
  17. Check where the crankcase breather/s discharge. If either the tappet chest one or the rockerbox one is discharging into air inlet this is where the oil could be coming from. Else its rings and bores. But I would think the compression would be down. How well does it start fro cold?
  18. .Apologies Callum for suggesting that the attention was wanting. I should know better. As always the full story is very different from the assumption. Sorry.
  19. Much more than double. If you measure the resistance of the run and start windings you will find the start winding is quite low resistance in relation to the run. And there may be a capacitor charging to consider. Sadly true, who said progress was good? Could always fit a capillary thermostat I suppose.
  20. Glad you got it sorted. Glad you got it sorted. Is that the longest sentence ever on the forum?
  21. So would I but its a fishing boat at sea, probably running hard and fast. Maybe they didn't notice if the wind was blowing the exhaust away on the lee side.
  22. Where does the crankcase ventilation go? Some have a breather pipe on the rockerbox, but there is a side breather on the forward tappet chest cover under the exhaust manifold. If these are dumping oil into the air cleaner, you will lose oil. Try putting them into a bottle instead and see how much oil the crankcase compression is blowing out. If its excessive then its rings and bores I am afraid.
  23. I think a bit more than 500w would be needed for reliable starting. Pure sine will be essential I would think, modern electronics and all that. Sam mentioned some time back using the thermostat switch in the fridge to switch the inverter on and off so that it only ran when the fridge needed it. Sounds like a good way of saving energy, not keeping the inverter on all the time.
  24. Magic Roundabout? I've been trying to work out where the camera man was standing for the shot. Is that a Bridgewater maintenance boat? A lot of crew for a carrier.
  25. No, but its tricky to balance it ! Is the horse Pegasus?
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