Terry Streeter wrote: > > > > 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.
Is Chris Bennett not around a Marine Engine Services? or have they gone on a jolly together. Jim > > Terry Streeter > NB Arun - West Hyde (but not for much longer (I hope) :-| ) > >
