I change gensets annually or about every 100 hours if they've been sitting a while. I'll go 200 hours if we're on a trip and the hours are being...
Make sure whatever glycol you're using doesn't eat copper as well as whatever fittings you're using to tie it all together. They use rubber hose...
I worked on a 97' MY steel with a canoe stern back in 2003, same owners still since 1987, same Captain since about 1995 who started out as a...
I have seen all sorts of weird iterartions of Scot pumps. So that's nothing unusual.
Or, if the gear lost oil, you'll get out of the slip and have no forward or reverse on one engine and a major OH NO moment.
Limited yes. But I've taken a 90' MY in and out of the inlet and all of the way to the Naples boat club without any issues. Have also taken a 70'...
The outcome sucks, having to do the job twice. PSS makes good seals.
PSS makes good shaft seals. Did you put some lithium grease on your lip seals and then pack your shaft seals with grease before you slid them up?
Do you have any tower fabricators near you? They usually have a bin of cut off tower pieces that are bent in different directions in the scrap...
If a 18" pipe, basically a foot past their normal handle does not free them, and I can't get them free'd and turning with a relatively normal...
Have you checked the nearest deck hatch?
Well, the one in the yacht I manage looked perfect until it split the bowl in half when it flushed one day! But, I would say that that is an...
Lithium is water resistant grease and a light weight, so it should get in all of the crevices inside the seacock easier. Red is lithium also...
Use lithium grease, if you do that.
Work the hell out of them every couple of weeks and see what happens. On the yachts I manage, I work the seacocks monthly.
You don't want this. You want the hour meters running only when the engines are running. Run the ground to a NO 2 or 5 psi oil pressure switch...
Call or stop by Glasstech in Miami, they should know. They've worked on 1000s of those old Bertram sf over the years.
Try to follow the hose. You could try blowing the drain out with water or air. At that age it is also highly possible the drain hose is split...
You only need 2" of wiggle room really...it's calm water...….use the raw water pump to fill the livewell and fishboxes with water if you have to....
Pinchers is a great raw bar that you can take a boat to of any height. There is a nice area right inside the inlet that I see people beach boats...
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