See your 'fernow' and raise you a 'round tuit'.

Bruce W

A cruising friend of mine called those things (like a LH Prop mounted backwards) as fernow's as in that's good enough for now.

Flutterby has her share of them. Some have been in place for four out of the five years we've owned her and show no sign of being done "right" yet. But someday I'll get to most of them...or sell Flutterby first!

Jeff, just keep on going and you'll get things working, one way or the other! And let me tell you...it is SOOOO worth being under sail, even if it takes 20 "fernow"s to rig it up!

Annie Hill wrote:

Paul Thompson wrote: However I like doing things the correct way and so keep them separate.

And of course, that is the right and proper attitude.  But if Jeff does everything the correct way, he may end up sailing his coffin before Seablossom.  Maybe quick-and-dirty is never justifiable, but there are many times that it's excusable.

I know my suggestion is incorrect (remember the sucking of teeth when we did it?), but how many hours is Jeff going to put on this engine?  How many hours are needed before the injectors are slightly damaged by the incorrect temperature of diesel through them?  We fitted the engine in question between tides, in a Falklands Islands winter, 100 miles from the nearest shop.  It was not done the correct way in many respects (we used alloy beer cans to create shims- it was the only time Pete didn't look a bit po-faced when I drank a second beer) and I think I'm correct in saying we put the propeller on back to front because it was the left-hand instead of right, or vice versa.  But that engine helped us in the South Orkney Islands and South Georgia and on to South Africa.  We did change the prop sometime, but I don't remember where.

My point is that Jeff is reaching the point of overwhelming frustration and I think his dream takes priority over the engine's ultimate welfare.  Whatever it takes.

Not to worry.  I was pretty low when I posted that, but I'm not as down as that sounded.  I'm plugging away, putting external bits back on the engine before I can try it, but the old valves were seriously toast and they're well renewed now, so I'm confident that it will chug along.  There's not that much to a diesel.

Yes, that's it, freeze in winter, bake in summer and the tool/part you are needing is always where you are not. Messing about with boats is fun! Might even do your paunch some good :-) but I found that the consoling beers/wine/whiskey needed afterwards balanced or even retarded any good that the exercise might have done :-(.

You can easily check if you have a diesel that relies on the fuel for injector pump cooling. If little or even no diesel comes out on the return side, it's not using the diesel for cooling. When the fuel is used for cooling, you will get quite a healthy flow. However I like doing things the correct way and so keep them separate.