Tracy D'arth

If the stop solenoid has been powered for a long time, the solenoid could be burnt out and the spindle in the middle stuck in the stop position by the burnt plastic. It should pull out to the run position, if not, disconnect it. It is engaged under power to stop the engine.

You loosen all the injector pipes at the same time! Not one at a time! Crank the engine till they are spitting fuel, not air and tighten them WHILST STILL CRANKING. Engine will start providing you do not have tha stop lever in the stop position!

You loosen all the injector pipes at the same time! Not one at a time! Crank the engine till they are spitting fuel, not air and tighten them WHILST STILL CRANKING. Engine will start providing you do not have tha stop lever in the stop position!

Its not a distributor. Its the injection pump. Do not remove it or dismantle it in any way, its a precision unit that you cannot do anything with. How are you bleeding the injector feed pipes? The Beta is a self bleeding engine. If it has a supply of fuel and a fully charged battery, with the speed control set to full and turned over for no more than 1 minute at a time it should fire up.

Its also kinder to your starter battery to spin the motor up with the decompressor levers engaged, and drop them after 10 seconds or so to start the engine.

You don't crimp the olive onto the pipe, the fitting does that as you tighten it whilst holding the pipe hard into the greaser.

Why is there an olive inside the nut, it should be on the pipe!

For heavens sake, will some boater on here near S-o-A go and sort this guy out? There is so much conflicting info it is getting impossible to help.

What is that inside the nut? I doesn't look to be just grease. Use spanners, not dogs on nuts.

The nut has been dogged to death, how big is the hole in relation to the pipe? The olive is not on the pipe far enough.

Cut the end off the pipe. Put nut on pipe. Put 8mm olive on pipe. Push pipe into greaser as far as it will go. Tighten nut into greaser, crushing the olive onto the pipe. Don't go mad with the spanner, check that pipe will not pull out once tightened. Test, if leaky, tighten a bit more/ Are you sure of the sizes of your olives? It looks like 8mm or 5/16" pipe to me. 6mm olive should be nowhere near fitting on the pipe.

Peeling paint off is bad painting, lack of key, greasy/damp under the paint, rubbish paint. If you want sharp paint lines you use fine lining tape from 3Ms - not cheap masking tape.

What parts have you changed? Is the plastic pipe bent/crimped/melted somewhere? If you loosed the other end does grease then come out when you screw the greaser? How hard are you screwing it down? 8mm and 5/16" are so close that they are interchangeable in this application. You do not need inserts in nylon pipe for this task.

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Peglers ball valves, the quality is far and away better. Buy cheap rubbish, expect problems. Gate valves have no place on a boat unless as balancing valves on a heating system, they never close properly.

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If it is a fuel tank it needs to be certified fuel hose. https://www.advancedfluidsolutions.co.uk/18mm-d-nitrile-rubber-fuel-hose-tubing-34-breather-pipe-2118-p.asp

Thanks for that info. I always considered that lift pump to be a puny affair, this confirms it. With only less than 10" of lift its a wonder that it ever copes with a near empty conventional counter fuel tank. Perhaps this is a cause of the occasional post on here about Beta trouble bleeding fuel lines and engines cutting out.

Some of mine have been from Royal Mail vans!

Where? UK? Europe?

If you cut up a used filter, 99 times out of 100 you will find not much in it other than oil. I would have no qualms using the smaller filters providing they are changed every oil change. Even then I reckon you could use them twice as I always do with the larger cans. Besides it probably filters better with a bit of sediment closing the paper pores. I always have a neodymium magnet on the can to trap steel dust. Perhaps it does nothing but it costs nothing either.

Always use cogged belts on alternators because of the small pulleys.

I never buy anything from a marina or chandlers unless I cannot find the item elsewhere. I do not begrudge them a profit but most prices are just cheeky and extortionate. I buy filters for popular engines in 10s from trade auto outlets like The Green Sparkplug Co in Middlewich where you get great service and sensible prices.

Big Lock in Middlewich is a classic for anything can happen. The hire boats first day out have a high old time at this lock.