Wansworth
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Happened to meat sea,I think it was the starter not working properly that drew sea water up and left open bits that should have been closed.After it was fixed I installed a siphoned breaker.
Starting engine on the hard! HELP!!
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mikegunn
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Nice idea but, I'm not sure that the shaft seal in the pump will tolerate being run dry. I think it relies on the prescence of water for lubrication.
Mike
Tamar
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My suggestion has already been Pooh poohed?
Spirit (of Glenans)
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No
No decompressor on the D1-20. You'll have to loosen the glow-plugs. I found, with this engine that it takes up water from a bucket faster than even a hose with pretty good pressure could deliver, so have a pretty big bucket of water , and a means of securing the hosepipe into it so it doesn,t pop out when you take your eye off it..
KevinV
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I'm confused - your wife stated clearly that you were at fault - obviously, being your wife, she was right - and yet for some reason you disputed this, with said wife?That's what I do except I open the c/w inlet seacock and the adjust the flow from the hose so that what the engine doesn't need runs out through the seacock onto the ground. On one memorable occasion onto our sailing bags, which my wife had unloaded from the car and placed under the hull so they would be out of the rain.
The ensuing row attempting to apportion blame was certainly memorable
Poignard
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We had only just bought the boat and I suppose I deluded myself that my service in the Royal and Merchant Navies entitled me to assume some degree of authority.
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QBhoy
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I’m very surprised that what you’ve done has hydraulic locked this engine. Unless I’m reading it wrong. Can only think that the bucket was higher than the engine and managed to syphon the water in when it wasn’t running ? Maybe I’ve missed some info.
VicS
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Yes the OP simply stuffed the hose up the inlet and left it running after stopping the engine. No bucket was involved.
QBhoy
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Got you Vic. That makes more sense altogether now. Time to get the injectors out and turn her over…few oil changes there after…and quickly as possible too !
Maybe I read a reply from someone else that mentioned the bucket. Thought it was the guy that posted for some reason. Then suspected something more serious coming from another issue
VicS
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in #17 the OP says
"Thankfully, my boat is in a yard called RB Marine services (Rosneath). I managed to find their mechanic working on Sunday! After I explained what I had done, he stopped the jobs he was doing and said 'better get that water out quick!'
He took all the injectors off and manually turned the engine pumping out a large amount of water! Cleaned everything out and got the engine running again! I'll change the oil tomorrow! "
Wansworth
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It’s like an old peoples home where everyone is slightly deaf?
Stemar
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If it's any consolation, I was wondering the same thing, so also learned something today, and possibly avoided a sizeable bill. Thanks for bringing it up.
wingcommander
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Same problem can occur if , when attempting to start ,engine is repeatedly turned over and not firing. Solution is to turn off seacock until she kicks in ,then immediately turn back on .
Boater Sam
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When I have encountered an engine full of water and locked up, turning it manually backwards usually clears the water enough to spin it over and start.
Rhylsailer99
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I would imagine it to fill up with water very fast. That would have been very bad for an engine like a bukh as im sure it would enter the exhaust valves in no time. Im not sure how the volvos work though.
Tamar
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Thanks, always a positive ?
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