A hard days night

[Guest]

So Wednesday me and Phil Cool tackle the ominuos task of changing a head gasket on one of my HT6354 Perkins. Bloody heavy exhaust manifold /cooler prooved exhausting to remove together with bloody heavy head after that. Anyway started 8am got head off by 12am.
During this time Phil (now nick named Cool) worked in an unflustered methodical manner, whilst yours truly made a pigs ear out of pumping out the oil managing to deposit large amounts around the engine room and bilge. Oh but I did managed to loosen some jubilee clips successsfully.

By 6.00pm approx, we were turning the engine over, started first time, and then resolved to have a well earned shower followed by a hearty drink down the local Chatham drinking establishment, then stay on the boat overnight with a view to sea testing her today.

Of course neither of us heard the weather forcast for last night. Wake up 3.30 - 4 am with 35-40 mph winds doing their best to ripe my ailing canopy off, get soaked fixing more warps and strapping down canopy, then cant sleep for the creaking created by all the warps.

Needless to say this morning didnt get any better so aborted the sea trial.
Must thank Phil (Cool) Jackson for keeping everything sane,Derek (Canboria) for dashing off to get a rocker cover gasket for me and Jim & Beck (tr7v8) for, at the final hour, kindly bringing round some gasket glue to hold the damn thing in place.

"The Med has got me" (no not the Medway the other Med)

 

[Guest]

Re: A hard days night \"Wakeup\"

By the way "Wakeup" I did manage to change the net curtains as well, oh and scrub the carpets and clean the oil off the kettle handle, and ...... Actually got to do a complete spring clean emptying 14 litres of oil along with taking half the engine apart dont arf make a mess.

"The Med has got me" (no not the Medway the other Med)

 

[burgundyben]

Glad its all sorted, I have been watching this with interest as the new boat has got two T6's in, not those funny lop sided flat ones mind you, I have got the proper upright ones.



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[Guest]

Yes cant help thinking it would have been easier to realease the 16 zorst manifold nuts with the engine upright had to work blind with tools underneath this massive manifold between the two engines. Phil cools a contortionist.

"The Med has got me" (no not the Medway the other Med)

 

[NorthernWave]

What a great sense of achievement.

I enjoy working on my old boat (am I insane!!) in the process of a rebuild of the port engine which I hope to be finished in the next couple of weeks. Great being able to work on my engine in the middle of the saloon with the TV on or a CD playing.
Think I'd better get a new kettle and the carpet needs changing anyway!!!


Chris

Relaxation starts at the pontoon gate

 

[wakeup]

Re: A hard days night \"Wakeup\"

See wouldn't have started first time with out the nets. New nets as crucial as head gasket glue, SOP for a Broom.

Glad to hear you got your engine running and your back on the water.



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