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frustrating day
Went to the coast to help a friend install his rebuilt 4 cyl diesel
and work on my boat. His engine install went well and I am very impressed at his primitive engineering to get the engine from his truck to the boat cockpit and from there to the cabin and down to its mounts. My boat did not go so well. First, I verified that my diesel waterpump begins to pump and then stops. I decided to think about that for awhile while I put my roller furling back on. I installed it myself 4 years ago so I thought this would go well but did not forsee that 4 years of age would cause my tendency to get dehydrated get so much worse. I literally drank a gallon of water in two hours. When I start to get dehydrated, I simply cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things. The install was difficult. Once it was up, I couldnt raise the jib on the track. For some reason it is jammed up at the top and will have to be taken down again. Maybe next week will be cooler although it was only 92 yesterday. Then, once I had drank enough water, I decided to watch my water pump on the diesel while it ran thinking that maybe the belt is slipping. Nope, not slipping but then got my flashlight to illuminate things, AHA. The raw water intake hose seems to be flattened at both ends. I replaced this hose last year and have not used her that much and the hose is much more flexy than the previous one. I think I just have wimpy hose that collapses at the fittings. I will buy better hose but brought the water pump home for inspection just in case. When I was younger, the heat didnt bother me and we would tough it out and sail through summer (in spite of no wind). I just am not able to do that any more. |
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On Sep 28, 5:45 pm, A Real Boater wrote:
wrote: Went to the coast to help a friend install his rebuilt 4 cyl diesel and work on my boat. His engine install went well and I am very impressed at his primitive engineering to get the engine from his truck to the boat cockpit and from there to the cabin and down to its mounts. My boat did not go so well. First, I verified that my diesel waterpump begins to pump and then stops. I decided to think about that for awhile while I put my roller furling back on. I installed it myself 4 years ago so I thought this would go well but did not forsee that 4 years of age would cause my tendency to get dehydrated get so much worse. I literally drank a gallon of water in two hours. When I start to get dehydrated, I simply cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things. The install was difficult. Once it was up, I couldnt raise the jib on the track. For some reason it is jammed up at the top and will have to be taken down again. Maybe next week will be cooler although it was only 92 yesterday. Then, once I had drank enough water, I decided to watch my water pump on the diesel while it ran thinking that maybe the belt is slipping. Nope, not slipping but then got my flashlight to illuminate things, AHA. The raw water intake hose seems to be flattened at both ends. I replaced this hose last year and have not used her that much and the hose is much more flexy than the previous one. I think I just have wimpy hose that collapses at the fittings. I will buy better hose but brought the water pump home for inspection just in case. When I was younger, the heat didnt bother me and we would tough it out and sail through summer (in spite of no wind). I just am not able to do that any more. So...let's see... When you dry out, you cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things...and you have a wimpy hose. :) I don't like the heat much myself. Being on a sailboat in 90F weather...I'd rather be at home in the A/C. --http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 Yes Harry, I knew the wimpy hose thing would catch your eye. Around here, you either tough out the heat or you stay home. Staying home isnt fun and when I am too old to get out, I will not look back and say "I wish I'd stayed home". |
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On Sep 28, 5:45 pm, A Real Boater wrote: wrote: Went to the coast to help a friend install his rebuilt 4 cyl diesel and work on my boat. His engine install went well and I am very impressed at his primitive engineering to get the engine from his truck to the boat cockpit and from there to the cabin and down to its mounts. My boat did not go so well. First, I verified that my diesel waterpump begins to pump and then stops. I decided to think about that for awhile while I put my roller furling back on. I installed it myself 4 years ago so I thought this would go well but did not forsee that 4 years of age would cause my tendency to get dehydrated get so much worse. I literally drank a gallon of water in two hours. When I start to get dehydrated, I simply cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things. The install was difficult. Once it was up, I couldnt raise the jib on the track. For some reason it is jammed up at the top and will have to be taken down again. Maybe next week will be cooler although it was only 92 yesterday. Then, once I had drank enough water, I decided to watch my water pump on the diesel while it ran thinking that maybe the belt is slipping. Nope, not slipping but then got my flashlight to illuminate things, AHA. The raw water intake hose seems to be flattened at both ends. I replaced this hose last year and have not used her that much and the hose is much more flexy than the previous one. I think I just have wimpy hose that collapses at the fittings. I will buy better hose but brought the water pump home for inspection just in case. When I was younger, the heat didnt bother me and we would tough it out and sail through summer (in spite of no wind). I just am not able to do that any more. So...let's see... When you dry out, you cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things...and you have a wimpy hose. :) I don't like the heat much myself. Being on a sailboat in 90F weather...I'd rather be at home in the A/C. --http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 Yes Harry, I knew the wimpy hose thing would catch your eye. Around here, you either tough out the heat or you stay home. Staying home isnt fun and when I am too old to get out, I will not look back and say "I wish I'd stayed home". You forget, I lived in Florida and boated there for more than five years. -- http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 |
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On Sep 28, 6:39 pm, A Real Boater wrote:
wrote: On Sep 28, 5:45 pm, A Real Boater wrote: wrote: Went to the coast to help a friend install his rebuilt 4 cyl diesel and work on my boat. His engine install went well and I am very impressed at his primitive engineering to get the engine from his truck to the boat cockpit and from there to the cabin and down to its mounts. My boat did not go so well. First, I verified that my diesel waterpump begins to pump and then stops. I decided to think about that for awhile while I put my roller furling back on. I installed it myself 4 years ago so I thought this would go well but did not forsee that 4 years of age would cause my tendency to get dehydrated get so much worse. I literally drank a gallon of water in two hours. When I start to get dehydrated, I simply cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things. The install was difficult. Once it was up, I couldnt raise the jib on the track. For some reason it is jammed up at the top and will have to be taken down again. Maybe next week will be cooler although it was only 92 yesterday. Then, once I had drank enough water, I decided to watch my water pump on the diesel while it ran thinking that maybe the belt is slipping. Nope, not slipping but then got my flashlight to illuminate things, AHA. The raw water intake hose seems to be flattened at both ends. I replaced this hose last year and have not used her that much and the hose is much more flexy than the previous one. I think I just have wimpy hose that collapses at the fittings. I will buy better hose but brought the water pump home for inspection just in case. When I was younger, the heat didnt bother me and we would tough it out and sail through summer (in spite of no wind). I just am not able to do that any more. So...let's see... When you dry out, you cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things...and you have a wimpy hose. :) I don't like the heat much myself. Being on a sailboat in 90F weather...I'd rather be at home in the A/C. --http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 Yes Harry, I knew the wimpy hose thing would catch your eye. Around here, you either tough out the heat or you stay home. Staying home isnt fun and when I am too old to get out, I will not look back and say "I wish I'd stayed home". You forget, I lived in Florida and boated there for more than five years. --http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 Harry, No, I like the fact that you know the places I talk about. Panacea in particular, a place hardly anybody outside N. W. Fl knows about. |
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On Sep 28, 6:47 pm, wrote:
On Sep 28, 6:39 pm, A Real Boater wrote: wrote: On Sep 28, 5:45 pm, A Real Boater wrote: wrote: Went to the coast to help a friend install his rebuilt 4 cyl diesel and work on my boat. His engine install went well and I am very impressed at his primitive engineering to get the engine from his truck to the boat cockpit and from there to the cabin and down to its mounts. My boat did not go so well. First, I verified that my diesel waterpump begins to pump and then stops. I decided to think about that for awhile while I put my roller furling back on. I installed it myself 4 years ago so I thought this would go well but did not forsee that 4 years of age would cause my tendency to get dehydrated get so much worse. I literally drank a gallon of water in two hours. When I start to get dehydrated, I simply cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things. The install was difficult. Once it was up, I couldnt raise the jib on the track. For some reason it is jammed up at the top and will have to be taken down again. Maybe next week will be cooler although it was only 92 yesterday. Then, once I had drank enough water, I decided to watch my water pump on the diesel while it ran thinking that maybe the belt is slipping. Nope, not slipping but then got my flashlight to illuminate things, AHA. The raw water intake hose seems to be flattened at both ends. I replaced this hose last year and have not used her that much and the hose is much more flexy than the previous one. I think I just have wimpy hose that collapses at the fittings. I will buy better hose but brought the water pump home for inspection just in case. When I was younger, the heat didnt bother me and we would tough it out and sail through summer (in spite of no wind). I just am not able to do that any more. So...let's see... When you dry out, you cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things...and you have a wimpy hose. :) I don't like the heat much myself. Being on a sailboat in 90F weather...I'd rather be at home in the A/C. --http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 Yes Harry, I knew the wimpy hose thing would catch your eye. Around here, you either tough out the heat or you stay home. Staying home isnt fun and when I am too old to get out, I will not look back and say "I wish I'd stayed home". You forget, I lived in Florida and boated there for more than five years. --http://tinyurl.com/4q88t6 Harry, No, I like the fact that you know the places I talk about. Panacea in particular, a place hardly anybody outside N. W. Fl knows about. In spite of some difficulties, I really do like the scorchingly hot days where you walk down a sand road barefoot trying o avoid the stinging nettles while bugs that sound like small aircraft suddenly go flying up in front of you, even the snakes you see have that look about em that says "hey, just leave me alone, I wanna get chilled somehow". The lakes sound like an echo chamber as the totality of all the frogs reaches over 100 db with the bigger ones going HARUMPH, HARUMPH near dusk. I even know how to "Grunt up a gator" (call a gator) so they come close so you can spotlight their red eyes. I may bitch about the heat, but its home. |
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On Sep 28, 6:58 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:26:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Around here, you either tough out the heat or you stay home. Staying home isnt fun and when I am too old to get out, I will not look back and say "I wish I'd stayed home". That's one advantage to living on the water. When I'm working on the boat in the heat it is never far to jump in the pool and cool down or go back inside the house for a little while. If need to work in the engine room I'll turn on all 4 zones of boat A/C plus the engine room exhaust vent and it actualy gets half way bearable down there. Working outside there is no escape however. Thinking about all of this makes me thankful. My parents had 9 kids so had little money. Instead of going somewhere fancy, they'd take us all to some lake or body of water to camp in the summer. With no AC at home, having access to water to swim in was heaven. We'd go to Silver Lake close to Tallahassee if we were lucky or to extremely isolated Camel pond or to White Oak Landing on the River Styx in Tates Hell Swamp and we had a blast. The best thing they ever did was to buy an 18' Grumman canoe in 1964 when I was 8. That canoe gave us independence and confidence and us kids could take it anywhere. We'd be gone all day and my parents knew could make it back. One time, we were camped at White Oak Landing sliding down the muddy bank into the water for fun but we had to throw sticks in the water to scare away the water moccasins first and I complained to my mom about that. She replied "Just think of all those poor kids who have to spend their vacations going to hotels and swim in boring pools", and I knew she was right, we were lucky and never complained again. MY parents had us brainwashed into thinking we were better off than people who had to go on expensive vacations. |
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On Sep 28, 7:44 pm, A Real Boater wrote:
wrote: Harry, No, I like the fact that you know the places I talk about. Panacea in particular, a place hardly anybody outside N. W. Fl knows about. Ahh...Panacea. I have many, many pleasant memories of that area, and Tallahassee. OK, the water pump looks ok and the vanes are oriented correctly. I made sure the cooling jacket was clear awhile back by rodding it out with an extra long drill bit followed by a bronze .22 guage wire gun cleaning brush. Then I cleaned salt deposits from the "mixing elbow" (this is what would be called the exhaust manifold on a terrestrial engine) so I am sure i have good water flow. It almost has to be flow restriction due to the collapsed rubber hose. |
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