CanePazzo
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I have now started the refit of my Oyster 46 ketch, bought for a song, because the boat had sat abandoned in Greece, on the hard for nine years. After a few weeks of preparation and tinkering with the engine, we left Greece and sailed to Viareggio in Italy, where she is now out of the water, ready for a complete refit. I will replace all of the electrics, plumbing, instrumentation just to mention a few of the jobs on the list.
One of the first jobs done has been the removal of the engine, an old Perkins 4.236. It is with 'friendly mechanics' whose old Dad, has dropped all other work and is taking great pleasure in playing with my engine. He has stripped it down and informed me that I was very lucky to get to Italy and the only reason that I was able to get here was that, 'it's a Perkins!' The heat exchanger was in a bad way, with the result of salt and fresh water mixing and the expected corrosion in the cooling system. The boat obviously had a lot of water in the bilge at times and there's a lot of rust everywhere and ingress of water into the flywheel housing and a few other problems.
I don't really want to change the engine, but it has to be economically viable. A second hand engine will most likely have similar problems (not quite as large), a brand new engine will cost a faffing fortune and have electronic circuit boards in it.
I think I need to find either, another Perkins 4.236 to cannibalise or find a good source of reasonably priced spares.
Any idea's folks?
One of the first jobs done has been the removal of the engine, an old Perkins 4.236. It is with 'friendly mechanics' whose old Dad, has dropped all other work and is taking great pleasure in playing with my engine. He has stripped it down and informed me that I was very lucky to get to Italy and the only reason that I was able to get here was that, 'it's a Perkins!' The heat exchanger was in a bad way, with the result of salt and fresh water mixing and the expected corrosion in the cooling system. The boat obviously had a lot of water in the bilge at times and there's a lot of rust everywhere and ingress of water into the flywheel housing and a few other problems.
I don't really want to change the engine, but it has to be economically viable. A second hand engine will most likely have similar problems (not quite as large), a brand new engine will cost a faffing fortune and have electronic circuit boards in it.
I think I need to find either, another Perkins 4.236 to cannibalise or find a good source of reasonably priced spares.
Any idea's folks?