"Larry" wrote in message
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"Skip Gundlach" wrote in
ups.com:

even after detailing
painting

Detailing painting?! What?!! Geez, that'll ruin the whole character of a
Perkins. I'd be afraid to go to sea with a Perkins that didn't look like
a...a....a....tractor engine. It's bound to fail...(c;

(I can hear Skip cursing now trying to get a paint-sealed bolt loose. The
paint's made the head bigger than his wrench, which won't go on, then
after
he's scraped that off, the paint down in the threads has her locked up as
if someone poured 3M 5200 in the threads before screwing it tight...)

:{))

Well, the bolts we took off what we expected would be where the direct drive
pump would mount proved no problem, as didn't the gasket behind that plate.

Having an engine which is very old and likely every internal spot oily
probably helped :{))

--
L8R

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"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."