Chrissie
New member
This weekend was to be the first time I took my boat across the channel, but my engine let me down again, but I did find a really good engineer in Gosport, who quickly found the problem.
My previous engineer, who I have posted about before, had wrapped a thin piece of metal round the cone that the flywheel attatches to, possibly to make it fit or something, the woodruff key was chewed to pieces and the thin metal had buckled up and knocked the timing out,
This was causing retardation and stalling when I opened the throttle up (big dent on the bow is testament to that)
So I now have my fingers crossed that I will get to sail this summer, /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
My previous engineer, who I have posted about before, had wrapped a thin piece of metal round the cone that the flywheel attatches to, possibly to make it fit or something, the woodruff key was chewed to pieces and the thin metal had buckled up and knocked the timing out,
This was causing retardation and stalling when I opened the throttle up (big dent on the bow is testament to that)
So I now have my fingers crossed that I will get to sail this summer, /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif