- Top View - The Generator is under the sole of the
main salon floor. she is rather quiet to the outside
world when we run it. But a bit of a rumble comes up
through the floor that makes running the generator just to
watch TV a odd win / loose combination.
- Water tank - This little water tank on the top is
fed with ocean water for cooling. It has the name of
San Juan Engineering on it. It may have been an add on
to make this engine work for this use in the Uniflite yard.
- Side View - Not much room on this side.
Bottom is the top of the water pump. On the top Rt is the new
exhaust elbow we put on 2 years ago. Left is the big
heavy fly wheel.
- Generator - Label says Taku Marine
Industries. I do not see anything that says how much
this electricity this part can provide.
- Fuel and Oil ports -
The oil dipstick is in
English and ??? Japanese or Korean ??? The fuel flow
indicator under the glass dome is a cool thing. When
working this red and white indicator spins. I have
used this to re-prime the engine at sea when she sputters
out and seems to be starved for fuel. Or is it that
she is getting an air lock when air seeps out form the seals
on this observation port. I have recently changed the
old washers out for new O rings. On the right is the
secondary fuel filter I think.
- Fuel filter -
Much better view of the fuel
filer. Wow I need to get another photo of the info on
that part.
- Fuel Filter -
The primary fuel filer now is
under all the new electrical wires. It is wall mounted
on the aft bulkhead.
- Fuel Pump - This is an antique and
may be part of the problem. It is just below the fuel
filter in the previous photo.
- Engine head -
The aft end of the engine.
This is across from the fuel filter above. There is no
way for me to get my head into this area so it is a new view
for me. Anyone know what that leaver is for?
- top view of end -
Is that a leaver to prime the
head? Looks like the fuel in and the fuel return.
- Engine Shut off -
We use this red handle to do
a Manual pull and shut down. Oh, I did not know
another Taku Marine Industries label was down here.
- the Label
- An angle view -
Air filter or flame arrester
on right. Exhaust elbow on left. water tank on top.
- Interesting -
Is this a fuel shut off
solenoid on the top? Not working.
-
* oil pressure sensor solenoid.
More later. Or on the
thread working on this topic at Uniflite World.
Follow-up story continued... Repaired by CC
Marine. Installing a new Fuel Pump and the top Oil
pressure sensor and solenoid on the top of the engine. It
has taken a beating over the years and recently as we changed
water pumps and very recently with the batteries of the
electrical upgrade.
Runs like a Champ. But still need to work out a better
shut down pull.
More later.
It is later now. We replaced the top solenoid
sensor.
Later still We did more repairs to the Starter.
Shortly after that we added a pull to shut her down from the
cabin without having to use the manual leaver on the side.
OK so the repairs became major this time. She
would not start and needed a rebuild to get the pressure up.
Needed to make a bigger decision. The good luck of the
timing enables us to UPGRADE to a newer generator! Hoot.
A good deal and mostly the best timing on a used Northern lights
4.5 KW unit. It was pulled from a much bigger sail boat
that wanted a larger capacity.
A special thanks to CC Marine and Tamalo Marine. The
installation went well and the new upgrades panel is working out
rather well.
I filled the old switch holes with caps.
So the view from the top is now very clean and very FULL.
Runs dependably and handles all the load we throw at it.
We got Juice! |
