Chris Pink

Well the studding is a fair fit for the hole, 5/8" but i wlll get proper bolts rather than studding. Lose the rubber (substitute with a hardwood packing piece?) and make a welded gusset for the C-section (which is 8mm - strikes me as quite flimsy for that weight of engine. ) The engine mount (red piece) won't foul the mounting plate. you can't see from the picture but it stops just short of the mount itself.

Unfortunately there's stuff about the camshaft and bushes and extracting the camshaft but not the rocker shaft. The only thing about the rocker is a sectional drawing Relation of Valves to Rocker Shaft but nothing about getting it out.

I have Tools Book 63 LX and HLX but not 55 LK Do you know the number of the tool you need?

Dredging wasn't a popular sport in them days either then? Pete Harrison - Your inbox is full.

I guess it's just supposed to unmistakeable. "I do not understand your intentions" or "your current course is dangerous" And the answer would be one, two or three blasts depending on which way you were correcting course or, in other circumstances, going astern.

How do calibrate it alternator to engine speed? The little digital box mentioned above is £72 (inc) so around the same price and seems easier to set up. I don't know whether I need a tacho to solve my problem, from what Split Pin says it's probably not an over-revving problem.

These are the mounts. They are all in good condition but they are all on pads of 1/2" rubber. The top piece of material in the front mount pic and the only piece in the rear mount. Could this be the problem? The good news is the shaft is a cardon shaft so it would be (relatively) easy to remove the rubber pads. The beds are fairly substantial C-section, would it be an idea to turn this into box? or put a wedgy bit of wood in the open part of the 'C'?

Davies via Classic Marine

Presumably, it being private land they can charge what they want and recover it through civil proceedings if it's not paid but private individuals have no power to fine anybody. And the 'contractual' scam has been well debunked.

If that's the case what could be causing horrendous vibration (out of gear) at higher revs? It was my understanding that I shouldn't be able to over-rev it. If I did use a tacho from the alternator is there any calibration - presumably thats the alternator rpm and I'd have to calculate to get engine rpm?

Two part question really; 1. How do I measure the revs on a 4LW (how can I fit a rev counter?) 2. My engine, whether in or out of gear reaches a point (at unknown revs see 1.) when it vibrates so much it is unusable. Is it possible to rev the engine on an ordinary throttle past where it should go? Should it not be governed so it can't go past this point? It has a 24" propellor of unknown pitch on a 14 ton boat so could it be seriously underpropped? I realise that I may not have put this in such a way that enables a diagnosis but questions to help arrive at one gratefully received. thanks.

Couldn't be more wrong Mr Hogg. They care enormously and intend to replant every single one. http://www.replantonslecanaldumidi.fr

I had one oar knicked a few years ago, must be the same person, now they've got a pair. I'm impressed they managed to get as far as you only being able to row in circles.

...what was it Denis Healey said about Geoffrey Howe?

Having talked to a few people in France recently, Mr Murrell's name has come up a few times and your post is not at all surprising.

Member Julien might be able to help you here. Especially if you're quick because he's going the other way. There's a thread somewhere. If for a year then the cheapest way is to find a farmer with a bit of hardstanding and then do cranage and transport. It will be expensive but probably not as expensive as £50 a week (depends how long really)

Just as well then that milk-based telekinesis is not needed to show to fallacies in your arguments, it's enough just to quote you.

It was, a couple of years ago, stated that they were going to cut them all down and replant, start one end and go through. Now it seems they are going to pull them out as they die rather than all of them at once. Mind I think they're having trouble keeping up from what I can see. Unfortunately part of the policy is burning all the wood on site so it can't even be used for anything, not even firewood. A quote from the BBC; "Researchers say the trees must be felled before they die. Otherwise they could fall on holidaymakers, who travel along the canal in boats - spreading the fungus as they go."

I see I can only create one gallery - is there a reason for this? but if I can then I need to delete images so I can keep the gallery fresh and drop it into posts with the 'my media' button. Trouble is I can't find out how to delete an image. Any ideas?

In France, not England. One of things that makes the Canal du Midi so unique and also is an important factor in it being a Unesco World Heritage site is its plane trees. They should look like this; but they're all going to look like this; Due to a nasty little mushroom (micro-champignon or fungus to you and me) with the charming name Ceratocystis platani responsible for chancre coloré or "coloured canker" which I think of as "angry canker" (chancre colère). There's 42,000 plane trees on the Canal du Midi which make it a lovely shady place to be in the summer and a joy to cruise and lots of nice places to moor. It should look like this; but it's beginning to look like this; and will eventually look like this; VNF - the French BW (rant later, same time, same channel) have cut down 11,000 trees since 2006 and will end up cutting down another 31,000, all of them, It spreads quicker than they can cut it down. It's incredibly contagious, not really known how it's spread but one theory is boats mooring. If that is the case then nobody is going to stop a multi-million pound boat hire industry. But will the tourists still come when the brochure pictures are no longer the truth? This picture shows how fast it spreads, from taking out the dead ones this is about 2 years. It's difficult to express what a tragedy this is, or what a difference it is making to such a beautiful place. VNF are replanting but it's a slow process and it will take a 100 years to get back to where it was, always assuming the chancre resistant strains really are resistant. More pictures in my gallery;