Hi There, the vibrations or wobbling may be caused by wear in the Vetus connecter between the gearbox and the C drive.(but this would have no effect on RPM) It has 4 rubber bushes in it that do wear

Hi some of the Onan gen sets do NOT have a 12 volt alternator so they don't run the fans. You either put a resistor on a line to the fans from the 24 volt out put from the charger or an alternator on

Today, I am running the generator. (Unplug show power), running 1 Air conditionning, both battery chargers and doing some computer work. After 2 hours, I noted the engine room got prety hot 48*C /

Just curious to know what other people have for engine temperature. I have the Volvo TMD 22 Before or after cleaning the exhaust elbow and heat exchanger the temperature remains the same: 91*C or

Hi you may want to bleed the injectors first. Then change the prop to the 3 blade spare. Should the problem continue; By doing these two changes you will have isolated the transmission system from the

Thought I would share my experience. So yesterday, spend the whole day removing my 2 anchors and 2 chains, bringing my ski boat under, etc. The longest one at 90 meter (300 ft) which weight 200 kg /

Last week, cleant exhaust elbow, heat exchanger and turbo, I was able to make it spin using a compressed air bottle. http://nikimat.com/volvo_tmd22_turbo.html Had a diver scrubbing the prop, said it

Ian, It was trailer bearing grease used for boat trailers. Available here in the USA at napa in a purple tube. It is a lithium bases water proof grease with a viscosity of 2 . also available as CRC

Great thread. This forum is a place where we can exchange experiences and opinions of real life on board our Amels, this is the real this is the real after-sales service!! :) Personally I would be in

Thanks Eric. I mistakenly lent my grease gun to another boat last week and he used up all of my prop grease. I think it is Lithium? Ian SM 414 Crusader Volos Port Greece

There is a contact line there. I tried a fake login and there is a 'contact the webmaster' (Chris) that shows when the login fails. Hope that is useful. Gary

There is a procedure. You must write a short email with your request to join and send it to: chris at forum-voiliers-amel.net You need to include the following information: User name: Temporary

Thanks a lot Andrew. I will write him the email. regards Lior 2013/8/19 Dr Andrew Lamb <andrew.lamb@...>

As far as I recall one must email the moderator to be given a username and password - the reason stated for this is that the site got hacked a while back and they lost a lot of content so they don't

Hi I wanted to register my self on http://www.forum-voiliers-amel.net/ but there is no place where it is possible... Is this forum close for a new registration? Does someone know somthing about it? I

Stefano, No drawings, just a photograph. The unique design was made by Emek Marine in Turkey. Possibly Emek will sell you enough information to duplicate it, but since the design is unique, I doubt

Great idea. I visited the French website and could not find any contact information, nor could I find how to register. Bill BeBe

PILGRIM SM#26 is equiipped originally with BONFIGLIOLI ref MVF44 P1 70 T63 B14 B3. Amel moved later to Lery Somer. I recently bought a brand new complete Bonfiglioli unit as spare for 250€. It is

Dear all, There may be also an idea to liaise with the administrator of the french Amel Forum http://www.forum-voiliers-amel.net/ and discuss with him whether we coulkd associate the two forums, one

Ian< Fyi, here is someinfo i retained when i rebuilt my gearboxes. Fair winds, Eric Here is one source : Eric, I am sorry for the delay; I have been out of the office. Let me see