mtb
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So, the engine has not been run for !! who knows up to three years .
Every thing is covered in rust cos they sealed the boat up !!!!!!!
The engine room look's as though it's been under and there I am yesterday morning with two new batteries and spanners .
This morning was moving day.
Number one job check all sea cocks and associated valves are and do open , oh yes not one failed so a good start.
Next check engine only minor things re perished rubber hoses but nothing to stop it running, even the engine oil is where it should be .
Batteries next they had just laid them on bare concrete ( oh dear ) so a couple of planks to sit them on and then connect up . The two new batteries fit in just right.
This is where you can see what the previous owner was like re engineering .
All the terminals were over tightened one even snapped so it was not surprising that the starter solenoid just clicked, it's no good thinking bung a screw in the terminal trying to tighten it up !!!!!!!!!!!.
Any way there is a small farm type spares place just around the corner so not to bad , on the way the thought's about what if the starter has to come off oh dear or bollocks and so on .
I knew I had the wrong spanners with me that would fit to undo the bolts holding the starter on so I brought a few while getting the new terminal.
Don't know how much a 24volt Cummings starter would be but it would be at least £250.00 or daft like £400.
Any way back on Danbrit cut the old terminal off fitted the new and connected up .
Flicked the master switch ( NO SPARKS ) so while I was there shorted across the solenoid leads and rrrrrrr bbbrrrrrooommm away it went no hassle no fuss .
Left to idle gently while I took a breather . The exhaust suddenly coughed on start up and holes appeared so the engine room got filled fairly quick .
You can see straight into the engine room through a hatch just forwards off the wheelhouse , I looked down and oh ***k diesel gushing from a broken hose .
Got down there rapid closed valves each side but still going !!! typical F****** typical any way over came it by pushing the end of a quarter drive extension in , that stopped it .
Guess what yes you have, micky mouse stuff yet again all the other pipe work is in copper but this section had been replaced by reinforced hose . FFFFF*** hell there's two thousand gallons capacity and they expect a poxy plastic hose to hold it .
While sorting that out I saw one of the Brammer belt's had gone there was still one left but stuff that , so off to the farm place again got the hose to replace crap perished stuff . I will be renewing with copper pipe next week. The tank on the starboard side is half full so there's a lot of pressure.
They didn't do the Brammer belt so off up the road to a bearing trade place , got enough belt to do the job twice, as who's to say when another belt will go , how much do you think it came to .
does £56.91 sound about right ohh that hurt but you have to have it right.
So back again fitted the belt which is easy cos you just add or unclip the link's to the size required.
Next I had checked the gearbox oil and found it had water in and also there was far to much in but I wanted to see if it was working ok rather than change the oil only to find the gearbox had to come out if all was not well .
Yes it was fine no noise easy to change no clonk or crunches great this is sorted I'm thinking .
What a poxy idea Twindisk have re refilling the box , it has to be sae30 not multigrade but the plug for filling any way I had oil but no oil bottle that you would use to fill an axle or gearbox with so the only option was to undo the dip stick tube and fill it through there !!!! took ages lost over half a litre but done it in the end , the way you check a twin disk oil level is to once its up to temp run the engine at idle with box in neutral then check the oil .
So gearbox done and sorted , looking scruffy but sorted . The only job to do now after I have it at Fosdyke is change the oil again.
You can always end up with water in a gearbox if you allow the height of water to get above the level of the seals on the shaft, the water will seep in, so changing the oil once or twice will do the trick.
Steering next o oh no steering , the system on Danbrit is a sealed unit above the rudder with three pipes up to the steering block , I knew it would eventually work but I don't know how many times I spun the wheel before I could feel resistance.
I even tried to see if a little let out of the drain off point would help but did not want to let to much out . Any way it got better as time went on by the time I'd left it had got up to standard which is 4.5 turns to lock.
Mind you bloody hard now.
Today was moving day
I want to cut the mast off ( shame really but it has to go ) to do this the boat had to be on what they call a commercial mooring , out of the way .
Got there at 0800 just had time to put some past and a couple of jubilee clips joined to gether around the lower exhaust splits and wrap some heat tape around the split further up , run the engine up to make sure it was not stone cold .
It by the way fired up instantly absolutely perfect .
The Port master and Harbour master and a couple of lads down there helped to turn me out into the river from an inside birth .
Although I'd had a few gear changes and knew Danbrit was very responsive there was a pleasant surprise instore .
Talk about control Danbrit is so easy to steer and we turned her out
( yes now she's a girl now ) so easily , a 30 odd ton boat that moves like that is very rare .
The joke was, the Port Master kept saying don't stop keep going !!. ha ha ha , they were very concerned re nothing being done with the boat and thinking of the problems if it should sink right in the middle of the river .
The Harbour Master , Clinton came with me and we went down stream of the commercial moorings turned and came back up to berth, she turned like a dream no hard throttle at any time and as for the steering even in neutral she had no problem answering the helm. just one thing , the height of the bow it's 11ft out of the water which is 2ft above where it should be , me being a short arse it's hard work seeing and I know I'll get used to it but there's one hell of a blind spot.
I will very gradually flood the forwards section with water to both get the bow down but more importantly let the planks take up every few weeks let more in and keeping an eye on what's going on set the boats level close to where it should be .
Danbrit has a bit of a list to starboard , this is because fishing machinery was taken off and no ballast put in to level things up.
I don't want to carry on the theme of concreting sections to ballast her out , not yet any way as I think it will take until spring to get every thing settled.
The pumping system is really good you have a series of pipes and valves that empty different sections of the ship , the pump works great so I will have plenty of control over what's happening and can pump out or in a good rate
Since I stepped on board and pumped out a small amount of water that comes through the deck Danbrit has been dry so cant ask for more than that .
The generator on deck starts perfectly and straight away it has a 6 KVA alternator so will run most things.
I have been down this morning to double check the depth and air draft and she will fit through the Bridge at Fosdyke no problem this was a major concern as now I can spend money on the boat rather than giving it away for moorings .
There is and will be tons more to do but that's a terrific start .
Cheers Mick
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boats
I need a couple of oak tree's .. for me trawler
Every thing is covered in rust cos they sealed the boat up !!!!!!!
The engine room look's as though it's been under and there I am yesterday morning with two new batteries and spanners .
This morning was moving day.
Number one job check all sea cocks and associated valves are and do open , oh yes not one failed so a good start.
Next check engine only minor things re perished rubber hoses but nothing to stop it running, even the engine oil is where it should be .
Batteries next they had just laid them on bare concrete ( oh dear ) so a couple of planks to sit them on and then connect up . The two new batteries fit in just right.
This is where you can see what the previous owner was like re engineering .
All the terminals were over tightened one even snapped so it was not surprising that the starter solenoid just clicked, it's no good thinking bung a screw in the terminal trying to tighten it up !!!!!!!!!!!.
Any way there is a small farm type spares place just around the corner so not to bad , on the way the thought's about what if the starter has to come off oh dear or bollocks and so on .
I knew I had the wrong spanners with me that would fit to undo the bolts holding the starter on so I brought a few while getting the new terminal.
Don't know how much a 24volt Cummings starter would be but it would be at least £250.00 or daft like £400.
Any way back on Danbrit cut the old terminal off fitted the new and connected up .
Flicked the master switch ( NO SPARKS ) so while I was there shorted across the solenoid leads and rrrrrrr bbbrrrrrooommm away it went no hassle no fuss .
Left to idle gently while I took a breather . The exhaust suddenly coughed on start up and holes appeared so the engine room got filled fairly quick .
You can see straight into the engine room through a hatch just forwards off the wheelhouse , I looked down and oh ***k diesel gushing from a broken hose .
Got down there rapid closed valves each side but still going !!! typical F****** typical any way over came it by pushing the end of a quarter drive extension in , that stopped it .
Guess what yes you have, micky mouse stuff yet again all the other pipe work is in copper but this section had been replaced by reinforced hose . FFFFF*** hell there's two thousand gallons capacity and they expect a poxy plastic hose to hold it .
While sorting that out I saw one of the Brammer belt's had gone there was still one left but stuff that , so off to the farm place again got the hose to replace crap perished stuff . I will be renewing with copper pipe next week. The tank on the starboard side is half full so there's a lot of pressure.
They didn't do the Brammer belt so off up the road to a bearing trade place , got enough belt to do the job twice, as who's to say when another belt will go , how much do you think it came to .
does £56.91 sound about right ohh that hurt but you have to have it right.
So back again fitted the belt which is easy cos you just add or unclip the link's to the size required.
Next I had checked the gearbox oil and found it had water in and also there was far to much in but I wanted to see if it was working ok rather than change the oil only to find the gearbox had to come out if all was not well .
Yes it was fine no noise easy to change no clonk or crunches great this is sorted I'm thinking .
What a poxy idea Twindisk have re refilling the box , it has to be sae30 not multigrade but the plug for filling any way I had oil but no oil bottle that you would use to fill an axle or gearbox with so the only option was to undo the dip stick tube and fill it through there !!!! took ages lost over half a litre but done it in the end , the way you check a twin disk oil level is to once its up to temp run the engine at idle with box in neutral then check the oil .
So gearbox done and sorted , looking scruffy but sorted . The only job to do now after I have it at Fosdyke is change the oil again.
You can always end up with water in a gearbox if you allow the height of water to get above the level of the seals on the shaft, the water will seep in, so changing the oil once or twice will do the trick.
Steering next o oh no steering , the system on Danbrit is a sealed unit above the rudder with three pipes up to the steering block , I knew it would eventually work but I don't know how many times I spun the wheel before I could feel resistance.
I even tried to see if a little let out of the drain off point would help but did not want to let to much out . Any way it got better as time went on by the time I'd left it had got up to standard which is 4.5 turns to lock.
Mind you bloody hard now.
Today was moving day
I want to cut the mast off ( shame really but it has to go ) to do this the boat had to be on what they call a commercial mooring , out of the way .
Got there at 0800 just had time to put some past and a couple of jubilee clips joined to gether around the lower exhaust splits and wrap some heat tape around the split further up , run the engine up to make sure it was not stone cold .
It by the way fired up instantly absolutely perfect .
The Port master and Harbour master and a couple of lads down there helped to turn me out into the river from an inside birth .
Although I'd had a few gear changes and knew Danbrit was very responsive there was a pleasant surprise instore .
Talk about control Danbrit is so easy to steer and we turned her out
( yes now she's a girl now ) so easily , a 30 odd ton boat that moves like that is very rare .
The joke was, the Port Master kept saying don't stop keep going !!. ha ha ha , they were very concerned re nothing being done with the boat and thinking of the problems if it should sink right in the middle of the river .
The Harbour Master , Clinton came with me and we went down stream of the commercial moorings turned and came back up to berth, she turned like a dream no hard throttle at any time and as for the steering even in neutral she had no problem answering the helm. just one thing , the height of the bow it's 11ft out of the water which is 2ft above where it should be , me being a short arse it's hard work seeing and I know I'll get used to it but there's one hell of a blind spot.
I will very gradually flood the forwards section with water to both get the bow down but more importantly let the planks take up every few weeks let more in and keeping an eye on what's going on set the boats level close to where it should be .
Danbrit has a bit of a list to starboard , this is because fishing machinery was taken off and no ballast put in to level things up.
I don't want to carry on the theme of concreting sections to ballast her out , not yet any way as I think it will take until spring to get every thing settled.
The pumping system is really good you have a series of pipes and valves that empty different sections of the ship , the pump works great so I will have plenty of control over what's happening and can pump out or in a good rate
Since I stepped on board and pumped out a small amount of water that comes through the deck Danbrit has been dry so cant ask for more than that .
The generator on deck starts perfectly and straight away it has a 6 KVA alternator so will run most things.
I have been down this morning to double check the depth and air draft and she will fit through the Bridge at Fosdyke no problem this was a major concern as now I can spend money on the boat rather than giving it away for moorings .
There is and will be tons more to do but that's a terrific start .
Cheers Mick
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boats
I need a couple of oak tree's .. for me trawler
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