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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
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I am looking for any ideas on adding hand starting to my new Yanmar 3gm30f .. The motor comes with fresh water cooling and the belt for the engine coolant pump runs right in front of the hand starting shaft ....the factory has even put a cover over the shaft......have tried Yanmar dealer ....no help .... Bob |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
I have the manual start option on my 3GM30F. Tried it just for laughs.
No bigger hernia inducing, back breaking, knuckle busting device exits on this planet. In an ideal world, with the engine completely un covered , with a place to plant your feet, maybe you can get enough rotational speed; but not on any boat I know of. On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:12:54 -0700, "Robert williams" wrote: Hi , I am looking for any ideas on adding hand starting to my new Yanmar 3gm30f . The motor comes with fresh water cooling and the belt for the engine coolant pump runs right in front of the hand starting shaft ....the factory has even put a cover over the shaft......have tried Yanmar dealer ....no help .... Bob |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
maybe you can get enough
rotational speed; but not on any boat I know of. I'm just curious, but did you try this with the decompression levers off ? |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
maybe you can get enough
rotational speed; but not on any boat I know of. I'm just curious, but did you try to crank your engine with the decompression levers off? |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
Decompression levers were all engaged. tried dropping them
sequentially, and then all at once. tried with the engine cold and hot. Engine in fine tune, normally starts within 5 secs. of ign on. at 1/8th throttle. 2 other marina mates tried with same lack of results. If you are interested in a non electric start, try http://www.springstarter.com/frameset.htm On 21 Jul 2004 14:32:59 GMT, (Hmseconomy) wrote: maybe you can get enough rotational speed; but not on any boat I know of. I'm just curious, but did you try to crank your engine with the decompression levers off? |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
The 3GM30F has a special setting for starting. The
throttle should always be placed in the full idle position to enable the starting configuration. If you ar placing it at 1/8 throttle, you are making it harder to start the engine. 5 seconds is pretty long to start. Mine generally kicked over within 1 second of turning the key. Doug s/v Callista "Marc" wrote in message ... Decompression levers were all engaged. tried dropping them sequentially, and then all at once. tried with the engine cold and hot. Engine in fine tune, normally starts within 5 secs. of ign on. at 1/8th throttle. 2 other marina mates tried with same lack of results. If you are interested in a non electric start, try http://www.springstarter.com/frameset.htm On 21 Jul 2004 14:32:59 GMT, (Hmseconomy) wrote: maybe you can get enough rotational speed; but not on any boat I know of. I'm just curious, but did you try to crank your engine with the decompression levers off? |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:57:00 GMT, Marc wrote:
Decompression levers were all engaged. tried dropping them sequentially, and then all at once. tried with the engine cold and hot. Engine in fine tune, normally starts within 5 secs. of ign on. at 1/8th throttle. 2 other marina mates tried with same lack of results. If you are interested in a non electric start, try http://www.springstarter.com/frameset.htm Amazing...what a great alternative. I can't think of why a long-term diesel-owning cruiser WOULDN'T have this...it could save your trip... R. |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
I have pondered installing one of these. They have been
aboud for may years. I doubt if the spring is powerful enough to spin my 85HP Perkins though. Doug s/v Callista "rhys" wrote in message ... On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:57:00 GMT, Marc wrote: Decompression levers were all engaged. tried dropping them sequentially, and then all at once. tried with the engine cold and hot. Engine in fine tune, normally starts within 5 secs. of ign on. at 1/8th throttle. 2 other marina mates tried with same lack of results. If you are interested in a non electric start, try http://www.springstarter.com/frameset.htm Amazing...what a great alternative. I can't think of why a long-term diesel-owning cruiser WOULDN'T have this...it could save your trip... R. |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
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Marc wrote: Decompression levers were all engaged. tried dropping them sequentially, and then all at once. tried with the engine cold and hot. Engine in fine tune, normally starts within 5 secs. of ign on. at 1/8th throttle. 2 other marina mates tried with same lack of results. If you are interested in a non electric start, try http://www.springstarter.com/frameset.htm On 21 Jul 2004 14:32:59 GMT, (Hmseconomy) wrote: Saw an AirStart on a small tugboat on the Upper Yukon river years ago. The boat had 2 mains and two gensets, all with an AirStart. They had a hand driven AirPump to get the pressure up on the smallest genset. Took about 10 minutes to get enough pressure to spin the first one, then it ran the aircompressor to build up pressure for the rest. No Batteries anywhere onboard. Winter layup, was tie her up in a slough and catch the next plane out. They used a propane torch to supply hot air to the first engine to make starting much easier. Really nice setup. Bruce in alaska diesels are your friend -- add a 2 before @ |
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Yanmar 3GM30f manual start ..Help !
"Robert williams" wrote in message ... Hi , I am looking for any ideas on adding hand starting to my new Yanmar 3gm30f . The motor comes with fresh water cooling and the belt for the engine coolant pump runs right in front of the hand starting shaft ....the factory has even put a cover over the shaft......have tried Yanmar dealer ....no help .... Bob It's a pipe dream - I once saw somebody hand start an old Yanmar 1 cylinder YSM (the ones with the bigger flywheel) and that was an impressive performance. I've never heard of anybody hand starting a 3 cylinder. Oh there was a French sailor in the Vendee Globe race - I think he used a pulley on the mainsail, sheeted the sail in really tight on a reach, and let it out FAST. The resulting pull on the rope started the engine but most of us don't have 1600 sq. ft mainsails.... -- Evan Gatehouse you'll have to rewrite my email address to get to me ceilydh AT 3web dot net (fools the spammers) |
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