Very true. Young couple in a boatyard I was in spent two years re fitting an Elizabethan 29 with a view to sailing to the Caribbean, only to lose a bit of drive and enthusiasm towards the end of the re fit, especially the Lady. She had her eye on a nice cottage in the village.
Anyway they set...
Has anyone suggested the good old centaur yet? I saw what looked quite a decent one for sale recently for 7k, recent beta engine and it looked ok below. Easy to sell on later I guess.
Hi Paul, no problems, I have lots of salt in there already😁, yes I did. The heat exchanger is coming off when it cools down, I have a spare one which the guys at the marina are going to pressure test? also I'm going to change the thermostat. The exhaust elbow is clear it's only a year old. If...
Update.
Changed the head gasket today, it looked ok, I was expecting to see a problem with it.
put the engine back together this afternoon.
Did the tappets which were fine, I was surprised how easy it was to turn the engine over slowly with a long torque wrench. I was expecting more resistance...
Agree, done this a few times and it works. Also bad earth's around the boat doesn't help. When mine started cranking slow it turned out to be a bad connection on the 1-2-both switch