Thanks Ian!

My Santorin has a Perkins Prima 50. It was 19 years old when I bought the boat with 3,900 hours. It now has around 4,600 hrs. It always starts first turn of the starter motor, never had to use the

Hi Bill, With your linear drive giving no play vs the chain drive, it seems the play could be from two sources; cable slack and/or chain slack. On mine it was the chain that needed tensioning. Cheers,

Hi Eric, The upper lip seal is on the input shaft where it goes into the upper gear box. You need to uncouple the engine, slide it back a bit, pop off the coupling and a metal ring protecting the

Which engine? Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

Hola Juan, Que es tu E-correo. Gracias Eric

Thanks Beaute, that is a helpful clarification of how an owner can judge how much water is getting in and decide on the urgency or not. I am probably over cautious, for me, any water is too much. I

Good evening Bill, AMEL hasn't got any feed back yet about this test of chrome plated bushings, and the engineering manager, Ludovic, told me he would be interested to know how it goes. They put some

Hello Danny, when water comes into the C-drive, oil doesn't go out at the same time, through the same way, you still have your 8 liters of oil. So, unless you see the oil/mayonnaise overflowing from

Olivier, You said of the chrome plated wear bushing, "... test made by AMEL to see if the wear is less than with the usual bronze..." One of the SM owners accidentally was shipped one of these when

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Hi Beaute, we owners are indebted to you for your experience and your willingness to share it with us, thank you for that. However today I must disagree.. Water in oil diminishes its lubricating

Good afternoon Courtney, 2900 hours is nothing for a diesel engine normally maintained. Mine almost has 4800 hours and I expect it to double that. Sincerely, Alexandre SM2K #289 NIKIMAT Harbor View

Danny and Bill R, Thanks for the help Bill, Danny and Olivier. Exactly what I needed to know. And yes Olivier, this was once Ann Harsh’s boat. Our steering system was replaced half way through

Thanks Bill!

both are volvo's Thanks! much appreciated

Hi again Bill, I forgot to mention something about the other end of the cables. They are connected to a rack-and-pinion system and their housing is secured on a square piece (located at each end of

Hi Bill, surprised you say the Raymarine "hunts". Do you adjust the response rate and the rudder gain. I have found I an take the responses from rapid to infrequent by adjusting these. I have settled

I will tell you from experience if a normally aspirated non-computer-controlled diesel is 8 years old and only has 700 hours, there will be problems with that engine. Variables that make a

Diesel engine hours are a small part of the story. And lower is not always better. Engines like to run—especially diesels. Certainly different people will give you different numbers, but most