Eric, The vendor I have been using for seals and bearings is Motion Industries, national distributors of parts for machinery that moves. Distributors throughout the US. While they do channel Leroy Som

Bill and all, Motion Industries has probably hundreds of locations across the US. My local MI is about 2 miles from my office, so super easy access at my source for seals, bearings, and anything to do

Since this seems to be a hot topic, I checked in the Volvo TMD22 manual and this is what I found under Technical data: Valve clearance, adjustment cold engine: Inlet 0.20-0.40mm : Outlet 0.30-0.50mm V

After installing new engine mounts and reassembling everything we still had a modest vibration of the assembly while under power, increasing with RPM. After loosening the bolts that hold the Vetus cou

Thanks for the information. This is a real possibility for us. Bearings are definitely in our near future. Mike Ondra 610-442-7551

Hi Danny. I just replaced our Leroy Somer gearbox with the one thanks to Steve Davis. I had cracked the housing whilst trying to remove the shaft. I believe the gears to be good and you are welcome to

Danny, I got the replacement courtesy of Steve Davis. As I recall he had purchased it by mistake (he needed the Bonfiglioni) quite a few years back and has been carrying it in his ship stores since. I

We are considering adding a UHMW Polyethylene strip to the groove in the rub rail. ¼” thick will leave it proud of the fiberglass rub rail about 1/8”, hopefully enough to take the majority of abuse an

We are repainting the rubrail after 16 years of doing its job. How easy or difficult has the experience been to remove the rubber rub rail gutter and then re-install it. The cross-sectional drawing de

Continuing with rub rail upgrades. What experience has anyone had with adding a vinyl rub rail to the Amel fiberglass rub rail. An example 1.5” high is the Taco V11-9795 Semi-Rigid Rub Rail (continuou

Hello Bill. I must admit to not being a 100% sure that I have this right, but so far, this is my understanding of our shore power system as used here in the US. I look forward to others’ comments that

As usual Alexandre of Nikimat has a very thorough and pictured explanation. I do not know if the black 240V shore power cord we have is original, nor do I have its numbers, but I had checked the actua

Hi Pat, So what is the bilge ground strap connected to? I suppose the iron keel? Should we be looking at the continuity between the keel and the zincs? Mike Ondra Aletes SM#240 Rock Hall, MD

Most LED lights I have been seeing lately are rated at 10-30v. This was confirmed by an LED vendor. Hopefully that is becoming the manufacturing standard and would allow the range of voltages found on

Does anyone have a source for replacement genoa car for SM2000? Or parts? Antal 40x8. Made in Italy. Cannot find our configuration with beckets/bales both fore and aft on the car. Mike Ondra Aletes SM

As others may have experienced with removing the windlass from the deck, 3 of the 4 bolts were easily removed. The aft starboard bolt is threaded into the deck (no visible nut and probably into a glas

Historically we have found that when shifting to forward the transmission barely engages before the throttle advances the RPM. Yesterday the transmission did not engage without manually pushing the tr

Thanks guys. This came up at the end of the day and i only quickly took a look at the transmission end. The cable was well secured. I suspected, as Bill Kinney points out, that there would be adjustme

Thanks for the technical info. This Morse cable is 17 years old, with maybe 3500 hrs. Are their failure modes for the cable itself? Or maintenance (oiling)? Mike Ondra Aletes SM#240 Rock Hall, MD

So I can agree that the cleanest final solution is likely to drill out the bolt and then drill through the fiberglass so that a bolt can be completely through with washer/nut on the end in the bow loc