Tomahawk
Well-Known Member
Had a bit of fun with a jammed fuel rack a couple of weeks ago... (note new definition of fun).. Realising I had a fuel problem I started bleeding everything through.. But that drains the battery so I pushed over the decompression levers to take the load off...BIIG MISTAKE,!!! I had forgot to close the seacock so the seawater pump simply filled up the exhaust pipe..
So after a few minutes trying to get the fuel through... Suddenly there is water pouring out of the air filter!!! big panick... Big emotion... Despondency .. Not sure where the water is coming from...Open up everything.. Drain the fresh water header tank pull the exhaust pipe off... And flood the engine compartment. The whip out the injectors and flush it with oil...
So now I have an engine with a fuel problem and water in places it ought not get.. I have to take out the fuel pump.... But access is awful over the top from the back end... And very cramped.. Time to call in the Cavlelry and phoned up French Marine... Younger French came out and had a fuel pump in his hand in less than an hour.. Well done that men..
Pump and injectors off to Colchester Fuel for a service... They report thT I have had moisture in the fuel pump and the injectors are dripping a bit..
With that's in mind I decide to service the injectors on the other motor... (Tomahawk is a cat) ... off come the first two injector pipes.. Then the third one refuses to come undone.. Indeed the one way valve comes adrift instead...
Oh dear.... Or as Black Adder would say....
so I decide to take the entire set off the fuel pump end... And the same happens again...
Ho hum sailing is fun
So after a few minutes trying to get the fuel through... Suddenly there is water pouring out of the air filter!!! big panick... Big emotion... Despondency .. Not sure where the water is coming from...Open up everything.. Drain the fresh water header tank pull the exhaust pipe off... And flood the engine compartment. The whip out the injectors and flush it with oil...
So now I have an engine with a fuel problem and water in places it ought not get.. I have to take out the fuel pump.... But access is awful over the top from the back end... And very cramped.. Time to call in the Cavlelry and phoned up French Marine... Younger French came out and had a fuel pump in his hand in less than an hour.. Well done that men..
Pump and injectors off to Colchester Fuel for a service... They report thT I have had moisture in the fuel pump and the injectors are dripping a bit..
With that's in mind I decide to service the injectors on the other motor... (Tomahawk is a cat) ... off come the first two injector pipes.. Then the third one refuses to come undone.. Indeed the one way valve comes adrift instead...
Oh dear.... Or as Black Adder would say....
so I decide to take the entire set off the fuel pump end... And the same happens again...
Ho hum sailing is fun
