Our Yanmar Marine Diesel Engines were about to fail due to lack of maintenance.

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We bought our catamaran sailboat in October of 2020. We immediately performed basic oil and filter change as well as the water impeller however we were told the other maintenance was "current". Now that we are preparing to start cruising we felt we needed to do deeper work and we are so glad that we did! We have uncovered many, many problems with our engines and we were forced to fix them.
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@davidleatherbarrow2640 Год назад

Hi Cory. Luv the T Shirt. " Live Long and Prosper." David.

@douglasrobbie9998 Год назад

Suggestion- get a set of lefthand drills (HF $8.50) which you can use to drill out broken bolts and it actually loosens the bolt as you drill it. A set of bolt extractors, a tap and die set and PB Blaster would also be useful.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Douglas, all great suggestions. I have most of those tools on board. The problem in this circumstance was, to replace that part was going to cost $2500. I am inexperienced so I would rather trust the people that do it often. If something like this were to happen while we were away from civilization I would’ve given it more effort myself. 😊

@douglasrobbie9998 Год назад

@@SaltyEscape Understand the circumstances. I had a rustedout clogged one on my gas Volvo Penta. I busted a head bolt and had to take off a lot more items to get the exhaust piece off. Had to LH drill out and retap myself, and it worked fine. My aftermarket exhaust piece was around $300 while the genuine Volvo Penta was nearly $2000. There are aftermarket items for your engines and some shops, like in UK, actually make welded up items for many marine diesels for not a lot of $s.

@hakubaholiday9006 Год назад

If possible, it's super important to get to know the owners before you buy used machinery and figure out if the are competent mechanically or not. And, if they DIY or not. You can tell a lot by the type of tools they have onboard too.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

I completely agree! We knew of one of the previous owners who took great care of this boat. Unfortunately the people he sold it to did NO good for this boat. It appears that they hid lots of damage and problems!! They were very different folk.

@Spoondrifters Год назад

Woop Woop! Getting it done! Can't wait til we can meet up in person!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

I think you’re going to beat us there! But, the race officially starts in 1 week!

@rgarizonahomestead2729 Год назад

i am glad to see you got it fixed and they are running well. take care and have a great day

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thank you! Such a weight off our shoulders to have these running again. The video made it look easy… all told it took over 3 weeks. 😬

@5VABrowns Год назад

Congrats on the engine work. I recently completed similar work to our Cummins 6BT engine.

@GimpyCamper Год назад

Glad you got it fixed. I had to drill out some bolts with an extractor on my truck once, that wasn’t fun

@geoffpalmer6424 Год назад

.Another step closer to cruising. All the best for the new year.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Exactly!

@mvinfinity5002 Год назад

Nice work Captain!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thank you!!

@divekatdreaming Год назад

Well done!!! Merry Christmas! Oh, what the next year will bring!!!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Ready or not… here we come! 😊

@razorsharpbt124 Год назад

Looking good, Corey!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thank you!!

@mandybayman9968 Год назад

Good job, guys!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Mandy, Thank you!

@MrJerobona Год назад

Great job on those engines!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thanks

@injectortrouble Год назад

Love your video. I have been making videos documenting my 1 cylinder runaway Yanmar diesel. These types of videos have inspired me to make videos about my experience being a boater in Brooklyn NY on my channel. Cheers

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thank you! It’s my understanding that in a runaway diesel situation you should shut the fuel feed off. Is this correct? We have shut off valves very close to the helm. (Our tank is under the floor at the helm). Cheers Corey

@injectortrouble Год назад

@@SaltyEscape Hey so in short - no. I unplugged my fuel tank during my runaway and my engine continued to fly away for over a minute because diesels are so efficient - it used every drop left in the line. There are two ways of stopping a runaway: suffocate the intake, or stop the ability of the engine to do compression. The latter is the best way to do this. On my engine, there is a lever on the top of the cylinder head. When you flip and hold this, it opens the exhaust valve in the engine and holds it open. This means the engine cannot do combustion properly, and stops. I highly recommend finding whatever decompression safety mechanism your engine has. Some diesel engines stop in normal operation through using the decompression lever (a pull wire goes to the helm). Worst case, you have to suffocate the intake. Becareful of any alternator belts when doing that. In the first video on my channel I show the symptoms of a runaway engine if you are curious.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Great! Thank you. I’ll check it out

@injectortrouble Год назад

@@SaltyEscape ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VN8WLFRUw-U.html your question inspired me to make a video about this topic - hope you enjoy it!

@gavinferguson Год назад

i would still get the orginal elbows welded they would be fine then but the new ones look excellent maybe try some injector cleaner in the tanks to help clean up your start they shouldnt hunt like the did after you swapped the elbows.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Gavin, thanks for your feedback. I need some clarification on what you’re saying? Injector cleaner… the engines hunt? The Portside has a rolling idle at start up but when it warms up it will idle smoothly. I thought it may be the governor or maybe the idle is set slightly to low. Is that what you’re talking about? Thanks for your help! Corey

@teknikmadaniofficial Год назад

Amazing vidios

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thanks!

@nedwphillips2126 Год назад

Bleated Merry Christmas Guys... and good work mate, those new elbows will/should last eh... grab a can of lanolin based lubricant spray (Lanox)and apart from the belt and pulleys spray lightly around any and all exposed metal including the alternator it is a gr8 rust inhibitor and will not eat plastic or rubber, especially once you get back to salt water.. if you get the belts that start to squeal puff some talcum powder (French chalk) on the belts too and and check for leaks and/or adjust to suit eh... Hope you Guys have a FUNtastic new year.. look forward to more Videos

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Ned, Thanks for all the good information! I’ve never heard of Lanox. I’ll check into it. I heave heard on Talcum powder on belts. I’ll pick some up before we leave! Cheers Corey

@NevSau Год назад

Hi Just wondering if the hanging cables on the solar panels are some new kind of art work! Enjoyed the engine stuff too! 😂

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Lol no…. I’m waiting for the wire cover to come in and then I’ll mount them permanently. Good eye! 😂

@michaela1655 Год назад

You could use Rustoleum paint on those engine parts. And brush it on instead of spraying it on. You get better coverage and it is less expensive than aerosol cans. Heat is not an issue on water cooled marine engine parts as long as the water circulation is maintained.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Michael, thanks for the tip! I’ll remember that for next time. Corey

@johnkosowski3321 Год назад

To remove and replace hoses, give a heat gun a try. Then you don't have to pry on the hose and potentially cause damage. Experiment with the right amount of heat (time using the heat gun).

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Good tip!

@garymalm Год назад

Just subscribed . I like your attitude. One small tip. Some people set their idle at slow thinking that that they are saving fuel. There is almost no consumption difference between a fast idle and a slow idle. Diesels like to run fast and hot. They live longer with a bit of strenuous exercise. All the best. Gary in Japan.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Gary, Thank you! We were working on adjusting the idle last night. It’s just the port engine was set too low. We changed the fuel filters (upgraded to Raycor) hoping that would fix the idle problems but it didn’t so I dove into learning how to adjust it. It sounds much better now! Thank you! Corey

@garymalm Год назад

@@SaltyEscape GM 20 idle speed is between 825 and 875. I would go for 900 in cold water. 850 in warm water. Will warm up quickly and pump lots of nice warm oil. Happy New Year to all of the family gary

@spelunkerd Год назад

@@SaltyEscape The other thing about slow idle is how low the oil pressure drops. Typical oil pumps can barely keep up with volume demand at very low rpm. Demand increases with higher rpm but oil volume production increases more, so oil pressure rises with rpm.

@bartthurman745 Год назад

Well done. Don’t forget to change the hoseclamps, these are known to fail on Yanmar engines…

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Bart, Thank you and yep, I replaced them with new stainless. 😊 Cheers, Corey

@SailingYachtSaltyLass Год назад

Exhaust elbows have a short life. Five years is not unusual. The stainless ones will rot too because the exhaust gases lack the oxygen that protects the stainless. Pull them and check them every 2 or 3 years.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi guys! Thank you so much for letting me know. I will be keeping a close eye on these engines. 😉

@shades1959 Год назад

I’ll never understand why people paint over rubber hoses and things that shouldn’t be painted.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

To hide potential problems…. Several hoses split open as I was removing them. 🙀

@billhanna8838 Год назад

Oil , Filters & a clean engine , Clean exchanger & plenty of air = shell run for ever .

@SaltyEscape Год назад

I hope so! Doing my best. 😊

@tedboender Год назад

Great work brother. How did you clean the exchanger?

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Thank you! I soaked it overnight in barnacle buster…. I actually used the West marine concentrated barnacle buster because it was cheaper. I cut the top off of a 2 liter bottle and used it to submerge it… I was able to submerge 2/3 in the two liter bottle so I turned the heat exchanger over a few times. I was very impressed with barnacle buster… that thing came out looking new! 😊

@JohnSmith-yv6eq Год назад

Why is that inlet for the saltwater exhaust cooling into the exhaust elbow so vertical? I would have thought that the water should be directed into the inlet at a 45 degree so that any splashing etc would not head towards the engine's head/valves?

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi John, I’m afraid I don’t know…. I did notice the mixing elbows have an inner sleeve. Maybe that sleeve prevents the water back flow…??

@howardbeer5214 Год назад

Just a heads up Get some ceramic grease as when screwing bolts into alloy it will almost stop them seizing DO NOT USE anti seize grease as the copper in it will react with the alloy. If no ceramic grease just use mineral grease . Well done and you def correctly undid the bolts IE a little one way and then the other Good Job .PS I am not sure with a Yanmar but there maybe anodes in the engine cooling system so check those too.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hi Howard, thanks for the information, I’m going to look further for an anode. I’m confident there is not one in the cooling system because I have had it completely disassembled however there may be another one in the engine somewhere near the sail drive. After you mentioned this I seem to recall seeing something mentioned about an anode in our Facebook owners group. Regarding the anti-seize… I definitely used anti-seize, I don’t know its composition but I’ll look. do you think I need to remove those bolts and re-coat them with ceramic grease? thanks again! Corey

@howardbeer5214 Год назад

@@SaltyEscape If you used copper anti seize on a stainless bolt into alloy I would remove them one at a time clean them with brake cleaner or similar and also spray it into the threaded hole and clean as much as you can out then re grease them with anything but a copper anti seize If the bolt was steel going into steel IE the engine block thats ok. Oh and always lubricate S/S bolts and threads IE the bottle screws on the rigging or they will bind up and you will never get them undone once tightened up as the threads stretch. Good luck and well done

@howardbeer5214 Год назад

@@SaltyEscape Because the product prevents seizing and unpleasant sounds it is ideal for brake blocks, exhaust systems, wheel nuts and machine parts. Because, in contrast to traditional copper grease, Ceramic Grease does not contain metal, it is not conductive

@TheBuddyandlilly Год назад

How often are you posting? Can we have at least every other week plz

@SaltyEscape Год назад

I’m hoping for weekly now! Maybe the occasional “extra” video concerning products…. We have a few things we are test piloting. 😉

@TheBuddyandlilly Год назад

@@SaltyEscape engines look 👍

@danratsnapnames Год назад

kind of thinking those two alternators should be matched, or am i wrong? i dunno.. i'm new to this stuff.. lol :)

@SaltyEscape Год назад

That’s a good thought… maybe in some circumstances however our engines are independent of each other.

@danratsnapnames Год назад

@@SaltyEscape so alternators from each engine only charge thier own starting battieres? not charging your main power storage? mainly because normally, if a dual charging system has imbalanced inputs, you'll cause the lower rated input to be pulled up by the higher rated input. this is where isolation comes in to prevent this from happening.

@danratsnapnames Год назад

@@SaltyEscape if the engine alternator is only charging the start battery, then WHY ALL THE AMPS?! lol. just saying.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Hey Dan, It’s not only charging the starter batteries. We have 2 Victron Orion DC to DC chargers to charge our DIY 1400 aH Lithium battery bank. Remember, we have two independent engine systems. Each has its own starter battery so therefore we can use two separate Victron Orion smart chargers for the overflow amps. Does that make sense? We are bringing in an extra 400 W per engine into our LiFePo4 battery bank. And the icing on the cake is the system is autonomous. We start the engines, the alternator recharges the starter battery and then automatically starts charging our lithium battery bank if needed. 😉

@danratsnapnames Год назад

@@SaltyEscape holy cow. ok. thanks for taking the time to respond. looks like i have some previous videos to catch up on. :)

@frederickbowdler8169 Год назад

A boat is a hole in the water where you throw money!

@SaltyEscape Год назад

B.O.A.T. Break Out Another Thousand Certainly feels that way sometimes.

@glennedwards1449 Год назад

Obligatory not a Diesel mechanic my uneducated guess regarding your "honkers" is that it creates a slightly positive pressure environment smoothing out your exhaust pressure and removing the highs and lows in essence it chokes the engine slightly. The same principal on water systems where you have a reservoir bottle. Of course I could be speaking Bo**ucks but seems like this is what it could be.

@SaltyEscape Год назад

Lol. I think you’re right. Becky was entertained with the name… Honkers. 🤪