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df
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 Posted - 11 Jul 2012 : 17:10:19
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If I had the time I would want the labour rate too, it's the knowledge and experience you pay for.
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gowzel
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Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 00:50:43
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Thanks for all the replies, I should be able to rebuild an engine, done it before on cars 3 times, and I am a marine electrician so no probs on that side of things. The description of the engine dying was a little tongue in cheek - it looks as if the chain did break.
My problem - apart from expense is time, it is an expensive static caravan sat in a marina, with the marina fees, license fees and insurance. This wonderful summer we are having  will soon be over, so a quick fix to get a few trips in, or a loan of a trailer to fetch her home, where it costs nothing to keep and I can go and "meddle" at my leisure are the options I am looking at.
The damage isn't as bad as feared, and I have sourced a cylinder head, marinisation kit and a correct sized piston for £200, so debating whether to take a gamble and buy them, a new head gasket and timing chain, spend a couple of long days on the boat fitting them and hoping that injectors are ok and that the head fits the lump without leaking.
As others have mentioned the original fit of the engine was Heath Robinson to say the least with 2 fans keeping the radiator cool, but it had been like that at least 27 years to my knowledge, and I have seen 2 more Normans this week with a similar fit, and an ugly car silencer bolted to the transom. |
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df
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Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 07:47:44
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How about fitting an auxilary outboard bracket and borrowing an outboard for the time being?
Sounds like you should have no problem with a home rebuild, so much easier if the boat is local to you, I did most of my conversion in a shed on a wooden mockup of engine bearers/transom with old enfield sternplate attached.
Mock up is still in my garden if any one wants it, transom is set at 12 degrees.
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BMC 1.5 or a trailer wanted
