I posted this to a mailing list today:

From: "Skip Gundlach"
To: "Morgan"
Subject: Gensets and replacement diesels (was) [morgan] Kubota diesel
Date: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:54 AM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cason Jr."

Hey Skip,

If it doesn't work for Joe I may be interested in it as well. .....So the
question remains...How much?

Michael Cason, Jr.
"Reprieve" O/I 333


Sorry - I took it offline because I thought it commercial and of limited
interest. (Original left below for context)

So, Here's the deal.

I took out a genset which worked just fine. I just didn't see a use for it
in our refit. It's sitting, ready to run (hook up a water bucket and a
gravity fuel feed, apply the battery to the starter and off it goes when you
turn the key). It's had that once since it was removed several weeks ago so
I know it works
like that. Of course, without all the hose to the back of the boat and the
water-level discharge, it's noisier than it would be - but you can confirm
that it works.

I've put a bunch of unedited (no color correction, cropping, rotation, size
or other manipulation) pix of the genset on the below URL as a subset of the
engine room, if you'd like to see them. All of these pix can be blown up to
original size (rather than the thumbnail) if you want to see more detail.

Those pix are of the installation (as it was on the boat), the removal, and
the reassembled unit on shore. Comes with a waterlift muffler, as well, and
all the control equipment (including the hourmeter). I can also do a
cut-and-paste of the section of our survey which dealt with this unit, if
you'd like to see that. The first pix (with text labels) of the 570-hour
hourmeter were as we were surveying. If I've got any closeups (I don't
recall) of the control unit later, they are current hours, as removed.
Oops - I checked. It's currently 583.2...

Including the mounting rails, plywood mounting plate and the electrical end,
and the hush box, I'd take a grand, FOB St. Petersburg.

HTH - and thanks for your interest!

L8R

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
From: "Joe Rose"
Reply-To: "Morgan"
To: "Morgan"
Subject: [morgan] Kubota diesel
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:22:37 -0500

Hello Skip,

That sound very interesting. Mine is a three cylinder although I'm not
opposed to a two cylinder if the hp remains the same. I would need to
make
certain the transmission would bolt up as well.

How much are you looking to get for it?

Thanks

Joe



_____

From: Skip Gundlach
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:12 PM
To: Morgan
Subject: [morgan] Kubota diesel



Hi...



I'm not at all sure that I represent the solution to your problem
(original
left below for reference), though it's worth a shot.



I took out a 6.5KW genset with a 2-cylinder Kubota driving it recently.
It's got about 700 hours on it, based on the hourmeter. It ran just
fine -
but I'm going wind and solar, and next to no AC stuff aboard, so didn't
need
it in favor of all the batteries I could put where it was.



I speculate that's about the horses on this two-cylinder model. If it
turns
out to be so (I can look up the SN, which should lead to the matchup
potential), I can make you a pretty good deal on it FOB St. Petersburg...



L8R



Skip



Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

----- Original Message -----

From: Joe Rose

To: Morgan

Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:55 PM

Subject: [morgan] Kubota diesel



Hello All,

While the discussion about removing motors has all been about removing
Perkins diesels, the timing seems to be unfortunately perfect. Went out
to
the boat this past Friday with a couple friends and after running about
two
minutes the motor started knocking. At first I spent a fair amount of
time
lamenting the fact that I had not taken time to check the oil this time,
but
after discussing it with a friend that does diesel mechanic work, he
suggested that something had to have gone wrong the last week when we
motored for about three hours and it just now told on itself. He also
told
me that a rebuild was in the cards for this one, as he was fairly sure I
had
spun a bearing. No way to be for sure until we get it out and apart.

I finally got back over to the boat this morning and started taking
everything apart so as to remove the old girl. Everything came apart
fairly
easily with exception of two motor mount bolts in the back, they came out
although they needed bit more attention and determination than all the
others. At this point everything is loose and ready to pull. So far I've
only had an hour and a half to work on it. I hope it come out fairly
quickly
tomorrow evening.

Our local Kubota dealer has a reputation for being extravagantly
expensive.
Anybody got an idea were to get parts for a 16 hp Kubota diesel
reasonably?
Or is this one of those situations where the words Kubota and reasonable
are
not to be used in the same sentence.

Joe Rose

M-34

Big Bunch of Rose



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

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"Skip Gundlach"
skipgundlach.sez.use.my.name.at.earthlink.dot.fis
(net) wrote in message ...
I posted this to a mailing list today:

From: "Skip Gundlach"
To: "Morgan"
Subject: Gensets and replacement diesels (was) [morgan] Kubota diesel
Date: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:54 AM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cason Jr."

Hey Skip,

If it doesn't work for Joe I may be interested in it as well. .....So
the
question remains...How much?

Michael Cason, Jr.
"Reprieve" O/I 333


Sorry - I took it offline because I thought it commercial and of limited
interest. (Original left below for context)

So, Here's the deal.

I took out a genset which worked just fine. I just didn't see a use for
it
in our refit. It's sitting, ready to run (hook up a water bucket and a
gravity fuel feed, apply the battery to the starter and off it goes when
you
turn the key). It's had that once since it was removed several weeks ago
so
I know it works
like that. Of course, without all the hose to the back of the boat and
the
water-level discharge, it's noisier than it would be - but you can confirm
that it works.

I've put a bunch of unedited (no color correction, cropping, rotation,
size
or other manipulation) pix of the genset on the below URL as a subset of
the
engine room, if you'd like to see them. All of these pix can be blown up
to
original size (rather than the thumbnail) if you want to see more detail.

Those pix are of the installation (as it was on the boat), the removal,
and
the reassembled unit on shore. Comes with a waterlift muffler, as well,
and
all the control equipment (including the hourmeter). I can also do a
cut-and-paste of the section of our survey which dealt with this unit, if
you'd like to see that. The first pix (with text labels) of the 570-hour
hourmeter were as we were surveying. If I've got any closeups (I don't
recall) of the control unit later, they are current hours, as removed.
Oops - I checked. It's currently 583.2...

Including the mounting rails, plywood mounting plate and the electrical
end,
and the hush box, I'd take a grand, FOB St. Petersburg.

HTH - and thanks for your interest!

L8R

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
From: "Joe Rose"
Reply-To: "Morgan"
To: "Morgan"
Subject: [morgan] Kubota diesel
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:22:37 -0500

Hello Skip,

That sound very interesting. Mine is a three cylinder although I'm not
opposed to a two cylinder if the hp remains the same. I would need to
make
certain the transmission would bolt up as well.

How much are you looking to get for it?

Thanks

Joe



_____

From: Skip Gundlach
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:12 PM
To: Morgan
Subject: [morgan] Kubota diesel



Hi...



I'm not at all sure that I represent the solution to your problem
(original
left below for reference), though it's worth a shot.



I took out a 6.5KW genset with a 2-cylinder Kubota driving it recently.
It's got about 700 hours on it, based on the hourmeter. It ran just
fine -
but I'm going wind and solar, and next to no AC stuff aboard, so didn't
need
it in favor of all the batteries I could put where it was.



I speculate that's about the horses on this two-cylinder model. If it
turns
out to be so (I can look up the SN, which should lead to the matchup
potential), I can make you a pretty good deal on it FOB St.
Petersburg...



L8R



Skip



Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

----- Original Message -----

From: Joe Rose

To: Morgan

Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:55 PM

Subject: [morgan] Kubota diesel



Hello All,

While the discussion about removing motors has all been about removing
Perkins diesels, the timing seems to be unfortunately perfect. Went out
to
the boat this past Friday with a couple friends and after running about
two
minutes the motor started knocking. At first I spent a fair amount of
time
lamenting the fact that I had not taken time to check the oil this time,
but
after discussing it with a friend that does diesel mechanic work, he
suggested that something had to have gone wrong the last week when we
motored for about three hours and it just now told on itself. He also
told
me that a rebuild was in the cards for this one, as he was fairly sure I
had
spun a bearing. No way to be for sure until we get it out and apart.

I finally got back over to the boat this morning and started taking
everything apart so as to remove the old girl. Everything came apart
fairly
easily with exception of two motor mount bolts in the back, they came
out
although they needed bit more attention and determination than all the
others. At this point everything is loose and ready to pull. So far
I've
only had an hour and a half to work on it. I hope it come out fairly
quickly
tomorrow evening.

Our local Kubota dealer has a reputation for being extravagantly
expensive.
Anybody got an idea were to get parts for a 16 hp Kubota diesel
reasonably?
Or is this one of those situations where the words Kubota and reasonable
are
not to be used in the same sentence.

Joe Rose

M-34

Big Bunch of Rose



----------------------------------------------------------------------
rec.boats.marketplace is a moderated newsgroup. See rules and legal
disclaimer at http://www.algebra.com/rbm




----------------------------------------------------------------------
rec.boats.marketplace is a moderated newsgroup. See rules and legal
disclaimer at http://www.algebra.com/rbm