Hi Catalina People, Thanks to all for allowing me to vent about the black on my transom.
I appreciate all of your feedback. I am happy to see I am not alone on this. The wax idea sounds good and I will give it a try. Thank you very much. Happy Sailing Mike Tabu 1984 Catalina 27 Universal M-18 Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: "RobAdkins" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:36 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [IC27A] Re: clickety clack thanks to all of you for chiming in on this subject. i now feel that my engine is most likely just fine and lovely. many of you have stated the hours accumulated on your engines of varying ages and i wanted to get an opinion on the hours of mine. according to the hour meter it's in the 4000hr range. which sounds like a ton compared to those of you with '84 M-18s as well. what can i expect from an engine with this level of previous use? thanks again-rob --- In [email protected], "RobAdkins" <robadk...@...> wrote: > > hi all, > > i was wondering what a healthy diesel engine sounds like. mine acts healthy > but sounds as if there's an extra high pitched tap-it noise akin to the > valves on an old small block 350 in need of adjustment. not knowing much > about diesels, i thought i'd query the community at large. is there a way to > upload a sound recording to the group's page? thanks -rob >
