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billskip
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Chemicals for flushing out cooling system of indirect cooled engine
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That seems to coinside with my experience of problems with imported engines from cooler climates...
Yesterday at 19:43
billskip
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First boat, never sailed and needing advice please
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I stand corrected...for some reason I didn't see the top picture which clearly shows the skeg....it looks wrong, and surely not looking...
Yesterday at 17:25
billskip
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First boat, never sailed and needing advice please
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I think you will find the rudder is designed to "kick up" (hinge?) for when the boat takes the ground and drying out
Yesterday at 13:57
billskip
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Karnic 2450 - thinking of buying - any views
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Back in the days I had a Mercury 50 it was a rule of thumb 1 gal per 10 hp pe hour ..so mine 5 gal per hour This I found to be quite...
Yesterday at 12:59
billskip
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Chemicals for flushing out cooling system of indirect cooled engine
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inhibitors are not needed in high temperatures....is that what you are saying? My experience in high temperature countries was coolant...
Yesterday at 08:33
billskip
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Perkins woes
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Agreed...it needs checking all possibilities before attacking it with spanner.....it is a problem that HG is the first solution...I have...
Thursday at 14:36
billskip
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The view across Lyme Bay
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I can see the moon (sometimes) that's 240,000 miles..(give or take a bit)
Thursday at 12:02
billskip
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Perkins woes
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Try if you can to separate the head, gasket and block slow and carful, so maybe you can positively identify the fault area....(I have my...
Thursday at 10:41
billskip
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Perkins woes
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Certainly looks like it, it doesn't do any harm to kick all the theories about for a while and try to find a more positive indication...
Thursday at 10:16
billskip
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Perkins woes
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I did say " indicating water getting into a cylinder "..yes it could be pressurising the indirect side which would surely overpressure...
Thursday at 09:21
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Why not do the test first, just to be sure ?
Thursday at 08:59
billskip
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Perkins woes
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If you have a head gasket problem indicating water into a cylinder that water can only come from the indirect system ,which would create...
Thursday at 08:54
billskip
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Perkins woes
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Had you actually lost any coolant?
Thursday at 08:41
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One has to wonder why Lofrans doesn't agree with you, and fits a stripper.
Sunday at 23:10
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I thought the Fulmar was a size of boat I could live with for quite a long time if I was only sailing weekends and holidays.
Sunday at 20:46
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