I took a look at the diesel on my kid's new bargain buy ten tonner: a
Volvo Penta 2 cylinder diesel.
Crankshaft frozen in position after standing two years.
I guess the rings stuck?
Tried landing a sledge blow through a wood dowel on the crank pulley
a time or two (the start handle being temporarily misplaced), but it
didn't want to play.

I guess spraying release oil through the injectors and using body
language a few days later might have worked. Pity!

Oh well. He'll sell it again needing a little TLC I expect...

Brian W

On 12 June, 02:53, Brian Whatcott wrote:
I took a look at the diesel on my kid's new bargain buy ten tonner: a
Volvo Penta 2 cylinder diesel.
Crankshaft frozen in position after standing two years.
I guess the rings stuck?
* Tried landing a sledge blow through a wood dowel on the crank pulley
a time or two (the start handle being temporarily misplaced), but it
didn't want to play.

I guess spraying release oil through the injectors and using body
language a few days later might have worked. Pity!

Oh well. He'll sell it again needing a little TLC I expect...

Brian W

take the head off and then ease the pistons with the sledge. Worked
with my sized up Lister FR

try removing the injectors and pouring in Marvel Mystery Oil and waiting a
week first, then again with the try-to-rotate-the-crank.

If it moves, move it veerry slowly over several days, through a couple of
revs, to make sure you don't score anything, then spin the starter for a
while.

That will force out the excess, if there is any which hasn't run into the
sump, and it is good to go...

L8R

Skip, painting, sanding, plumbing, wiring and the like while we wait for
grandkids to cross with us to Marsh Harbor from Saint Simons Island GA

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery !
Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog
and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog

"Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so
much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in
boats-or *with* boats.
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's
the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and
you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."

Flying Pig wrote:
try removing the injectors and pouring in Marvel Mystery Oil and waiting a
week first, then again with the try-to-rotate-the-crank.

If it moves, move it veerry slowly over several days, through a couple of
revs, to make sure you don't score anything, then spin the starter for a
while.

That will force out the excess, if there is any which hasn't run into the
sump, and it is good to go...

L8R

Skip, painting, sanding, plumbing, wiring and the like while we wait for
grandkids to cross with us to Marsh Harbor from Saint Simons Island GA



Thanks - passed on to my son

Brian W

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:50:11 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Skip, painting, sanding, plumbing, wiring and the like while we wait for
grandkids to cross with us to Marsh Harbor from Saint Simons Island GA

What is your ETA at Marsh Harbour? We are at Green Turtle Cay at the
moment, heading down towards MH in a week or so.

Hi, Wayne,

We won't be leaving here before the end of the month. We may not actually
go to MH, first, as we have a sistership friend in GTC we'll visit.
However, if we can make it happen (have to check our paperwork to see) we'll
try to extend our visa which was good through at least sometime in July.

We'll likely post about our float plan; we expect but may not happen due to
air return costs to have our two grandgirls with us for the crossing.

If you're not going to be in the area for a while, we'll miss each other
that time. However, we expect to be in the Bahamas for many months, perhaps
a year and a half.

What's the weather like there, currently? Our resident needler proclaims no
wind this time of year, other than hurricanes, and bugs...

What do you have to recommend about GTC as to touristy, cheap, stuff, and/or
diving/snorkeling/beachcombing?

L8R

Skip and Lydia, working on the boat in high 90s, temp and humidity, and low
wind, with no AC!

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery !
Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog
and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog

"Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so
much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in
boats-or *with* boats.
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's
the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and
you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:50:11 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Skip, painting, sanding, plumbing, wiring and the like while we wait for
grandkids to cross with us to Marsh Harbor from Saint Simons Island GA

What is your ETA at Marsh Harbour? We are at Green Turtle Cay at the
moment, heading down towards MH in a week or so.

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:50:03 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Hi, Wayne,

We won't be leaving here before the end of the month. We may not actually
go to MH, first, as we have a sistership friend in GTC we'll visit.
However, if we can make it happen (have to check our paperwork to see) we'll
try to extend our visa which was good through at least sometime in July.

We'll likely post about our float plan; we expect but may not happen due to
air return costs to have our two grandgirls with us for the crossing.

If you're not going to be in the area for a while, we'll miss each other
that time. However, we expect to be in the Bahamas for many months, perhaps
a year and a half.

We'll probably start heading back to SWFL sometime after the 4th of
July. Hurricane risk rises quite a bit after mid-July and we have a
fairly secure dockage back at the house.

We've acquired a SPOT device which is faithfully reporting our current
whereabouts:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os

From GTC we will work south stopping at Great Guana Cay, Marsh
Harbour, Hopetown/Elbow Cay, and Little Harbor.


What's the weather like there, currently? Our resident needler proclaims no
wind this time of year, other than hurricanes, and bugs...

It's hotter than I expected with light southerlies 10 kts or less. The
Gulf Stream crossing last week was dead flat calm. We've had some
light rain showers but it has been mostly clear.

What do you have to recommend about GTC as to touristy, cheap, stuff, and/or
diving/snorkeling/beachcombing?

There are some nice beaches/snorkeling on the east side, not far from
the Green Turtle Club on White Sound. The beaches near there can be
easily reached by bicycle but the roads are rough. The entrance
channel to White Sound has plenty of water and there is a lot of
anchoring room right now. We came in an hour after high tide and
never saw less than 8 feet of water. A lot of boats also anchor at
the south end of GTC in open water near New Plymouth Harbor. From
there it is an easy dinghy ride to downtown New Plymouth which has a
few stores and restaurants. There are other attractions such as a
small museum and a place with model boats. You can also dinghy from
there to Pineapples which is a classic cruising bar. The stone crabs
at Pineapples are excellent, and the happy hour drinks potent.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:50:03 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Hi, Wayne,

We won't be leaving here before the end of the month. We may not actually
go to MH, first, as we have a sistership friend in GTC we'll visit.
However, if we can make it happen (have to check our paperwork to see)
we'll
try to extend our visa which was good through at least sometime in July.

We'll likely post about our float plan; we expect but may not happen due
to
air return costs to have our two grandgirls with us for the crossing.

If you're not going to be in the area for a while, we'll miss each other
that time. However, we expect to be in the Bahamas for many months,
perhaps
a year and a half.

We'll probably start heading back to SWFL sometime after the 4th of
July. Hurricane risk rises quite a bit after mid-July and we have a
fairly secure dockage back at the house.

We've acquired a SPOT device which is faithfully reporting our current
whereabouts:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os

From GTC we will work south stopping at Great Guana Cay, Marsh
Harbour, Hopetown/Elbow Cay, and Little Harbor.


What's the weather like there, currently? Our resident needler proclaims
no
wind this time of year, other than hurricanes, and bugs...

It's hotter than I expected with light southerlies 10 kts or less. The
Gulf Stream crossing last week was dead flat calm. We've had some
light rain showers but it has been mostly clear.

What do you have to recommend about GTC as to touristy, cheap, stuff,
and/or
diving/snorkeling/beachcombing?

There are some nice beaches/snorkeling on the east side, not far from
the Green Turtle Club on White Sound. The beaches near there can be
easily reached by bicycle but the roads are rough. The entrance
channel to White Sound has plenty of water and there is a lot of
anchoring room right now. We came in an hour after high tide and
never saw less than 8 feet of water. A lot of boats also anchor at
the south end of GTC in open water near New Plymouth Harbor. From
there it is an easy dinghy ride to downtown New Plymouth which has a
few stores and restaurants. There are other attractions such as a
small museum and a place with model boats. You can also dinghy from
there to Pineapples which is a classic cruising bar. The stone crabs
at Pineapples are excellent, and the happy hour drinks potent.




Be sure to visit Nippers on Great Guana. The frozen Nipper will knock you
right on your lubber arse. And the scenery is great.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:26:20 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Be sure to visit Nippers on Great Guana. The frozen Nipper will knock you
right on your lubber arse. And the scenery is great.

Oh yes, great scenery indeed:

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9...natnippers.jpg

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2...gatnippers.jpg

Those pictures were taken at the Sunday pig roast three years ago.

We'll be there again next Sunday.