MrBadger

Thanks Alec, I will try these tomorrow evening - hoping my syringe trick will get me at least to the boat yard which won't open until Monday, but if these things solve it first, full steam ahead to Braunston!

I think you are right here! Thanks for your help. Hopefully the yard at Wooton Wawen can help. In the meantime, for your amusement, here is my ridiculous botch job to add some grease in the meantime! An old dog syringe from the vet packed with grease. It fit into the fitting by the prop lovely and did go in!

I think this must be right I really have tried everything and done it every which way. The pipe does feel too small but then it was on there some how... the problem is I can't find the origins olive. Thanks for thinking of me on your journey! Appreciate it

And an 8 is too big. Very specific olive! 🫒 This is a relief although we have been sat for 6 months and it hasn't been greased might be a bit dry?

It's 6hours away

Oh brilliant! The only issue is, do you think we can safely do a day's travel without greasing?

This is my issue, for some reason, that isn't happening

It keeps getting sucked into it. That's the 8mm one. The 6mm won't fit at all on the pipe. I have tried crimping the olive on the pipe but then the nut won't screw around it onto the casing 🤷🏾

I did have a boat mechanic coming and then he cancelled and hasn't got back to me about coming tomorrow. Short on options down this way sadly. Doesn't seem to be a yard on the South Stratford Canal and getting to Evesham is currently unnavigable! Just grease and an olive - I have been using grips due to the small amount of wire making it tricky but noted I will cease and desist I do have spanners

The pipe is very small I tried to measure it internal diameter of 4mm but external 6mm though this might not be reliable because I don't really know what I am doing 🤣 To add, the nut is much bigger than the pipe I wonder if the pipe was a tiny bit bigger it might help it stay in the fitting better

Stratford upon Avon - heading that way eventually.. hopefully! Yes this is right it's getting silly short I can't fix the greaser in place now but I'm not too worried about that providing I get grease flowing

My apologies Alec bloody autocorrect. Tyranny. Often falls into the nut but can be got out

Thanks Alex I will do this

Tried this repeatedly but something seems amiss with the crushing the olive onto the pipe. I can do the nut up with the 8mm on the 6mm won't go on at all. I can't find. 7mm for sale anywhere 😭

Nothing I try is working I have two size olives 6mm will only go on the very end no further and the 8mm is too big and it leaks. I'm desperate is there a way to manually add grease without the greaser so I can get to a chandlery I'm just covered in grease and failing and it's really getting me down.

Yes, I had done this, but it seemed to still leak. It is an 8mm olive and just about goes on to the tube. Is it possible I put the olive on the wrong way? I didn't I was just playing around with the olive on the tube has I am running out of ideas and confused lol

Thanks Bod, here you go

Hello fellow boaters, I am in a right pickle. After attempting to repack my grease gland, I am having issues. There is rarely tension and if there is, the bolt/olive at the bottom leak or once, they pushed out. I disconnected the original connection because it was not pushing through to the end of the line near the prop shaft, now the grease does come through, albeit slowly. After reconnecting it, I just cant get it to not leak outside the pipe. The olive is the right fitting, it just about fits on to the tube. I screw the bolt around it tightly to no avail. Is there a way to manually grease until I can get to a workshop/chandlery? Has anyone else had similar issues? I am worried about moving but I need to! Disclaimer: I am one year into living aboard and I am a mechanical idiot. Many thanks!

I am having this issue also but am yet to give it a run with a working alternator as mine before was not wired in properly. Hoping to re energises the batteries that get as low as 9 some evenings but always back to 12 volt fitness during the day

I have just had a similar thing happen, I am very new to boating. CO alarm went off - definitely not batteries and not a gas leak, which I checked (I don't think that would set it off anyway) but my fire was open and coals slowly burning. I havent cleaned my flue and I had the ash tray at the bottom open too...thinking it must be that. Opened windows etc not going off anymore..worrying though this thread has taught me to get my butt in gear to clean out the fire and not always leave the ash door open below the main door too

Thanks for your help magnetman 🧲 Thanks for this and I take on board what you are saying - where would be best to start to learn more and get the names right? I have really enjoyed this whole process. I turned it using a large screwdriver as advised. I think turning it a lot helped me out big time.

I GOT IT STARTED!!!!!!!!!!!! 🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡

Update! The flywheel moves well both sides. After moving it quite a bit I have become able to crank in the direction it would not budge before. Not easily at all and not one full turn, kind of quarters but I can always kind of pulse it. I could hear hissing and other noises coming from air valve and noticed that around the back of my boat oil had found itself in the water. The engine is trying to turn better than it ever has but i am worried about frying the battery. My theory is the hand cranking is pushing stuff out that should not be there. Thinking I will carry on and jump start it later. Any other thoughts? Engine was sounding really normal when I just started to turn it on the key, still with the decompression arms open.

He appreciates your help immensely and he also cannot afford an engineer at £55 per hour. He is also learning! And he will get there 💪🏽 No it did behave exactly like that - honestly I really thing all was well until my mistake.

It.moved before I turned it now it will not. How much pressure should I apply I do not want to damage it? I did try hard pushing it downwards in particular with a screwdriver on the teeth Oil didn't get low I mistook the pressure gauge as being oil level as I'm new and silly. The engine doesn't turn over due to my oil placement mistake I wouldn't say they were necessarily connected