Thanks Bob, sorry you had to take such measures. If the aft lifting plate was a couple of mm further out then the car would slide clear. However as you will see in my post to Sangaris, I was lucky

Hi Craig, thanks for the advice. I tried to unscrew the forward block but the bolt that doubles at the main boom preventer attachment was very stiff to undo even after an overnight soaking in

Dear Giovanni,   We had similar situations with solenoid.  Our cure is to regularly exercise the solenoid by depressing the 'black rubber' seal.   Kind regards   Mike   Solitude SM2K 461 To:

Hi to all, at sunset , sailing Water Bligh, Fiji, I had to start my Yanmar to go to anchorage. Nothing…no engine. At the moment I remembered a similar situation when we were sailing Eolie, Italy. It

Hi don't know if this will help. Cleanse it with a good degreaser like brake cleaner then use a high temperature exhaust manifold paint and have at it. That stuff worked well on our race cars that got

Thank you Richard.

While replacing the turbo on Libby (as noted lees than 2 hours on it) the exhaust elbow was removed, inspected and cleaned. Light Carbon deposits were removed with a dremel tool. It was in fair

Hello all, I bought with great satisfaction my Sharki followed by my current Super Maramu to Jean GRALL. Jean knows well our Amel's and provide good opportunities and advice. Here is his website

Hi Trevor, I have read your post several times and I believe I know what your problem is. I had a similar problem in that my Kubota engine would intermittently not crank, either from the galley

I believe that my problem is that Ii motor a lot in very salty warm water.--that is also what yanmar said. with respect to my batteries. i have been turning off the chargers odd during the day and

same here, salt crystals. i just welded a s/s jacket inside of he elbow using our welding laser and closed up the small pinholes with some platinum. just about 50 dollars worth of platinum-- i think

Does anyone have a supplier for the original white plastic covers fitted by Amel? The factory can supply them but unfortunately the price is not realistic. Many thanks. Trevor Sea Fever Ireland

Hi Eric, We need to tap into the massive brian power and experience in this forum. You and I have the same engine, I just serviced the injectors, etc. major service. When they were at the

Kent, My first clue was salt crystal build up...never saw water or gases. Bill, BeBe, SM2k, #387

Hi Jeff. I'll send you that $20 I owe you. Joel F. Potter 954 812 2485 iPhone [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi Eric We had the same problem, and did the same thing. I was going to replace the elbow, but was amazed at the price. As I remember, it was around $600 or more from Yanmar. BTW, regarding yacht

Dear Patrick, Thank you for your help, it seems that we had a similar problem although I think that I am not clear of the woods just yet. There a full history on my reply to Gary

Dear Gary, Thank you so much for such an informed response. A copy of that has already been saved to the ship's computer, it's a pity Onan couldn't explain there own product range in

Interesting. I guess this is unrelated to the carbon buildup discussed in the Volvo rpm threads. My new Yanmar 4JH4HTE only has <100 hours but it'd be nice to know if there is anything I could do to

Eric, Was the first clue that something was wrong a leak (I guess you'd see the raw water leaking and smell exhaust fumes), or was it a decrease in performance? Does running the engine hard regularly