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Guys : Before you start tearing things apart - spend a few $$ on a heat detection gun and see what the temperature of the engine really is!!   

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Guys : I had to "work at it", but I got the 1 1/4" because it gives greater deadening of the sound!!  BTW, I only used screws & washers!!

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Guys : I used screws with washers to in stall mine. Also I installed the 1 1/4 thick!!
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Pete : Look at Defender I was very pleased with their engine insulation!!   

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Breaking : What I did with my new engine (wiring for the M25xpB engine came with has the same screwed up wiring harness as the M35BC engine -- was to remove that factory wiring harness!!
 
What Westerbeke was trying to do is - when the oil pressure drops, the electric fuel pump stops and the engine then shuts down!! The only problem is that with the C34, the fuel tank is higher than the engine so when the electric fuel pump stops the fuel will continue to syphon and the engine will still continue to run!!

So what I did was to wire the glow plugs directly into the momentary (spring loaded) position on the key switch. Then I wired the electric fuel pump into the ON terminal of the key switch. The oil alarm switch is a single terminal and wired into a buzzer in the engine instrument panel. No pressure the alarm comes ON (very loud) and when the oil pressure come back up it is OFF (silent).  The Westerbeke wiring harness went into the junk pile!!

Simple as that !! 

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Ken : Maybe I haven't seen it in "a second", but I've seen it start in a few days!! That 5600 Lb. wing keel

stays put when it's on the ground!!

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Guys : It doesn't take a Mechanical Engineer to have a travel lift operator set the boat down and improperly set the hull so you have a "Catalina Smile" in a second!! All he has to do is set the keel on the ground and let the hull rock back!!   

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Guys : My 1988 boat the aft water tank is NOT setting in a pan!! The simplest thing to go is fill the "scag dimple" like some have done, and say THWI!! 

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dcl : Look for kens post or look for my Mainsheet tech note article on how I simplified the oil warning and the glow plug circuits.

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Antoni : If Mexico is anything like the Bahamas - good RO water was 3/4 times the price of diesel!!

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Guys : The only cap that needs to be "winch handle tight" is the fuel cap !! I just tighten the water and waste caps finger tight!!  I replaced the fuel with a SS cap & fitting!!

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Jim : We're off the topic, but I've tried to find the source of that water in the "Scag Dimple" for 30 years??  Being fresh water I'm convinced that it's from the aft water tank, but I'm NOT going thru all of the work to pull that aft tank just to find out.

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Pete : You can replace that sheave, but it isn't going anywhere. I believe that I replaced the out haul line with new 5/16" Dacron.

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Bernd : Should be no problem, Zn spray will nicely stick to bronze. I've used it many times on the prop.

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Guys : Our hand signals (doing for over 30+ years) do NOT include any tapping or banging of the head!!

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