pugwash
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I hesitate to say Big End but if I were speaking about a car with rear-wheel drive I think it would be accurate. The "wet end" then.
My 1969 Holman wooden ketch (like a grown-up Twister) has a 30hp Petter diesel, universal joint and an Aqua-Drive. In the past there has always been a small clunk when she goes into gear and a whine at about half revs. It was like that when I got the boat five years ago and never changed so I didn't worry. Until the very end of last season.
Suddenly there was no reassuring clunk when the clogs meshed but she still went into gear okay. No whine at all. And a sinister vibration at about half revs.
I can't check anything until Easter (the boat's in mud in Devon and I'm in London) and I'm wondering what I'm going to find. Any guesses?
Please don't scare me too much!
My 1969 Holman wooden ketch (like a grown-up Twister) has a 30hp Petter diesel, universal joint and an Aqua-Drive. In the past there has always been a small clunk when she goes into gear and a whine at about half revs. It was like that when I got the boat five years ago and never changed so I didn't worry. Until the very end of last season.
Suddenly there was no reassuring clunk when the clogs meshed but she still went into gear okay. No whine at all. And a sinister vibration at about half revs.
I can't check anything until Easter (the boat's in mud in Devon and I'm in London) and I'm wondering what I'm going to find. Any guesses?
Please don't scare me too much!