Bye-bye, Bleed Screw...bye-bye !

Perhaps it was a case of "Calm down, dear!" :)

Anyway you now know an encyclopaedic website for VP parts information.

I got the numbers from there for my VP2020 oil and fuel filters and alternator belt and went to my local motor factor this afternoon. They matched them all from the numbers and did them all for about 1/3 of the VP price. :D
 
Troubadour said:
Perhaps it was a case of "Calm down, dear!" :)

Anyway you now know an encyclopaedic website for VP parts information.

I got the numbers from there for my VP2020 oil and fuel filters and alternator belt and went to my local motor factor this afternoon. They matched them all from the numbers and did them all for about 1/3 of the VP price. :D
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You are quite right on the above.....All I went to the boat to do was pour in some gubbins to kill the diesel bug, change the filters and bleed the system....simples! Nah.... after I dropped the screw into the bilge I must have spent the best part of an hour trying to find it, I was upside down, covered in stinking black oily bilge water and diesel, and there was a fair old slop going, (I'm on a swinging mooring), I'd just about had enough and this was the final straw. Yes I guessed that I panicked a bit as the engine is as old as the boat, (it's a Mirror Offshore....yes one of 'those'!) and I thought that parts would be impossible to source. So many, many thanks for your trouble, as you say I now have many points of reference for parts.

Funny thing was that I mentioned my predicament to someone quite randomly and he said that his son works at Volspec in Tollsbury and he would give him a call !!, he confirmed that they had 9 in stock...I bought two!
 
Thanks for that

Thanks for the post but I actually visited Volspec yesterday and got the part, I see that the link you posted takes me directly to the part I needed....many thanks for going to all that trouble!

Going down tomorrow to fit the screw.....what could possibly go wrong !!!
 
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