Recent content by Spare Thyme

You could try Microair in the states, I upgraded my old controllers to Easy Touch and found them very helpful and delivery to the UK only took 4 days, you can probably use the FX1 board as a direct replacement and should work with your existing SMX controllers, worth contacting them for options...

I have done the valve lash twice now, first time there was a lot of adjustment required, second time no adjustment needed, I suspect before I did it approx 500 hours, they had never been done. the setting block and gauge you need is widely available as it’s the same for the road engine, the...

I have 2, do my own servicing using CAT parts from Finning, basic oil and fuel filters plus SOS testing works out at around £500, a lot depends on the engine hours as to what you need to do. I have a bunch of special tools for valve lash, but that only needs doing every 700 hours, very easy if...

Sounds mechanical so not a diesel knock, take the valve cover off and run it and see if you can pinpoint the source of the noise, does sound a bit like valve adjustment or valve train related

Does it start and idle smooth?, could be something simple like incorrect adjusted valve lash, injector timing or bad injector or bad injector seat, setting the injector timing is fiddly even with the CAT tools

if you have a little button on the throttles you have to press to make that throttle control then it’s most likely Mathers microcommanders, however malfunction of this system will not stop an engine, the belts in early ones fail and slip preventing you starting occasionally, fiddly but easy to...

I can confirm its identical on the 3126

As long as yours are not the 3126b the only thing that will shut these engines down is the shutdown solenoid, (there is no auto shutdown on temp / low oil, only an alarm) if it’s like my Azi 39 they are energised to stop, with no power they run. your Azi will have the same red Rubbery buttons...

I am reading OK to travel but not to overnight until the 29th “In line with relaxation of house moves on 29 June, we are clarifying that travel to a second home for essential maintenance would be possible.“ Coronavirus (COVID-19): framework for decision making – Scotland's route map through...

I had a problem with my ZF Microcommanders (585’s) earlier this year, every now and then the station would emit a beeping sound and the shift would do either odd things or stop completely. On investigation one of the toothed belts in the actuator box was hanging on by a thread and would jump a...

If this is the one, level 2 membership of boatdiesel will give you access to the prop calculator for your set up

Is it the SRM13?

Hi and welcome You need to determine what the rated rpm is, possible that the out of gear 3800 ( sometimes revered as the high idle) is correct and the 3200 in gear is the rated rpm. All marine diesels should have the 2 numbers on the plate. Over propping a marine diesel is bad for engine life...

Hi, Finning will be able to tell you basic data on your engines, if they have been Cat maintained then all that data also. If the previous sent oil / fuel samples in they will have all that info too. Key important one is oil changes every 200 hours or annual, plus rack adjust at 800 hours if...

I will have a close look at my one at the weekend, the eBay one looks identical and I am sure the label on theGarmin one is 10 - 30V dc, it was a few years back when I bought my one, I did research the standard Poe, but seem to remember you have to frig the IP address of the Poe to work on...