A bit steep even for 'Marine parts'?

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I have a Farymann, single cylinder diesel engine turning a 2.5kw alternator known as an HFL genset. I finally contacted a UK company that has knowledge of such antiquity and won't give me part numbers but will supply the items at the following costs -

Oil filter GBP43.00
Impeller GBP86.35
Fuel filter GBP28.77
All parts in stock
Prices excl. VAT
Delivery GBP15.00 + VAT

Reckon I'll strip it down and find my own way.........
 
Take the old ones to a good auto store and then you should be able to match things up. There's not that many around. Small cars tend to share common filters with these small gensets.
 
........................any decent motor factor in the known universe. Every trading estate will have at least one its probably where the hire co, get their bits and add their mark up.
Genuine Yanmar oil filter. £43.00
Fleetguard version at my local factor. £13.50.
 
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I won't be a genuine Yanmar filter anyway, but it will have genuine Yanmar packaging and maybe genuine yanmar paint. :p

99% chance the water pump impellor will be a Jabsco or Johnson standard part that can be got for a quarter of that.
 
Be warned that Johnson make a number of pumps and some are supplied to the likes of Volvo. But they will sell similar pumps to others, and maybe other applications. The same impeller, same number of vanes, same diameter may have a different shaft diameter.

They look the same but are different :(

Guess how I know.

Jonathan

I can be very simple - it did not occur to me that they would make an identical impeller for a different shaft diameter and I spent a considerable period of time crouched down trying to fit 'a genuine' Johnson impeller from a Johnson box in a 'genuine' Johnson pump (it was engraved as such on the pump).
 
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Raritan head, I need a new shaft seal for the "con rod" (atwixt handle and piston) - £53 +P&P.

It's a stiff rubber seal in a plastic screw in fitting abou the size of a 10p coin.
 
My boat in Greece has been standing for three years and I am told it is very dirty. Thinking I would get the yard to give it a wash I asked for a quote. For taking off the cockpit cover, 10 minutes at the absolute outside, €80. For a light pressure wash of the decks, recently painted so not wanting anything extreme, €230. All plus VAT at 23%.

I can buy a pressure washer in town for less than €100 and sell it afterwards, or even give it away!
 
harvey38 said:
I have a Farymann, single cylinder diesel engine turning a 2.5kw alternator known as an HFL genset. I finally contacted a UK company that has knowledge of such antiquity and won't give me part numbers but will supply the items at the following costs -

Oil filter GBP43.00
Impeller GBP86.35
Fuel filter GBP28.77
All parts in stock
Prices excl. VAT
Delivery GBP15.00 + VAT

Reckon I'll strip it down and find my own way.........
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"bit steep" - good to see the traditional british understatement in action.
 
Neeves said:
Be warned that Johnson make a number of pumps and some are supplied to the likes of Volvo. But they will sell similar pumps to others, and maybe other applications. The same impeller, same number of vanes, same diameter may have a different shaft diameter.

They look the same but are different :(

Guess how I know.

Jonathan

I can be very simple - it did not occur to me that they would make an identical impeller for a different shaft diameter and I spent a considerable period of time crouched down trying to fit 'a genuine' Johnson impeller from a Johnson box in a 'genuine' Johnson pump (it was engraved as such on the pump).
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I had a diesel fork lift with the same engine as a Volkswagen Golf, I needed a new water pump, I tried a £30 VW Golf Pump and it was different, I had to buy the Caterpillar Water Pump at £180 which was identical but half an inch deaper.
I has a boat with an 1985 Iveco diesel engine, It was basically an marinized Iveco Daily Van Engine, They only marinised that engine for a short time. When it was 25 years old I wanted to change the Cam Belt and pulleys. I could not find a `lower pully that was the same, Bought one for an Industrial Water pump and one for an Industrial Generator, one for an Iveco Daily Van and one for an Iveco Turbo van and they were all different. Sold the boat.
 
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The trouble with modern motor factors is they want a registration number to sell you anything, you need to find one run by the older generation that still have a clue what they're doing.
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Forget the chains or any outfit who needs a registration............. bunch of lightweights........Europarts et al
My local factor is an independant company called "Aghabridge" . They have yet to demand the registration number of any of my boats in order to find filters or other bits. :)
They are also prepared to knock you up a boat propshaft, hydraulic hoses or custom length battery straps in their machine shop if you ask nicely.
Auto components from Aghabridge Ltd in Rochester
 
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oldgit said:
Forget the chains or any outfit who needs a registration............. bunch of lightweights........Europarts et al
My local factor is an independant company called "Aghabridge" . They have yet to demand the registration number of any of my boats in order to find filters or other bits. :)
They are also prepared to knock you up a boat propshaft, hydraulic hoses or custom length battery straps in their machine shop if you ask nicely.
Auto components from Aghabridge Ltd in Rochester
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Another is to find out where the smaller farmer goes for his bits ....
 
As others have said go a car spares shop ,
I need a air filter for my MD 2030 , just round bit of foam which as a spring in side
£45 volvo wants and that's without the spring , ended up making one £2
 
Robih said:
Raritan head, I need a new shaft seal for the "con rod" (atwixt handle and piston) - £53 +P&P.

It's a stiff rubber seal in a plastic screw in fitting abou the size of a 10p coin.
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PM me - I might have a spare. Currently in Londonderry and wi-fi sometimes iffy. Dont spend heavy dosh till I have checked my Raritan PH11 spares.
 
Not surprised the OP is having difficulty getting spares, nor at the cost when you can find them. Despite what some may think a trip to your local factors will be met by stares or disbelief. These are unique designs dating from the 50s and last produced around 1980 when Briggs and Stratton took over the remnants when the owners retired. They quickly failed to do anything as the engines were by that time considered crude and old fashioned. Various other firms (including Nanni) have owned the brand but despite its reputation from the 60s and 70s nobody has managed to make anything of it and it finally died in 2019.

Little bit like Seagull and Petter (who also tried to do something with Farryman) they were products of the immediate post war boom that did well for 25 years or so, but failed to move with the market and technology and were swamped by the Japanese when they got into small diesel (and outboard) engines in the 70s and 80s.

Doubt those parts in the OPs list are shared with any other engine - even from the same era of 40+ years ago.
 
Years ago i remember searching for an oil filter for a Sabb diesel, Suppliers wanted £ 17 for it, local motor factors cross referenced the code & it was a ford sierra filter cost £3.50
Some of the volvo diesels used renault oil filters with similar mark ups.
 
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