Terry Streeter wrote: > The water pump is currently being dismantled so that the graphite seals > can be changed. I expect to collect this on Monday and it should then > be a simple job to refit that and the associated pipework. Then it's > just a case of bleeding the air from the injection system and see if > it's ever going to run again.
Things never go quite as smoothly as we hope, do they? I collected the dismantled water pump on Monday, only to discover that one of the bearings supporting the impeller shaft had seized solid. The impeller shaft (gear driven from the crankshaft) has been forcing the inner race round and it is now in a very sorry state. This probably explains why the graphite seals were leaking. So far I have been unable to extract the knackered bearing from the housing or to identify quite what it is so that a replacement can be obtained. Pete Thompson (Marine Engine Services) is unavailable before Thursday, but I'll be hot-footing it down there as soon as he's back and hopefully he will have (or at least be able to identify the type of) a replacement bearing. Terry Streeter NB Arun - West Hyde (but not for much longer (I hope) :-| )
