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Main Message Board / Re: "Leaking" fiberglass hull
Last post by Ted Pounds - Today at 06:59:59 AMWhen I did some work on my skeg a looong time ago I recall running into some pink stuff that appeared to be fairing/filler compound....
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Main Message Board / "Leaking" fiberglass hull
Last post by KWKloeber - Yesterday at 04:57:47 PMLike the issue of water from the tank puddling, has anyone ever seen or heard of puddled pink stuff eating/seeping thru the fiberglass hull?
The pic below is where bottom paint was peeling on a C30 and underneath the paint is dripping pink (or what looks like it) after the area was ground back.
For reference, the painted shaft is at the bottom (right behind the shaft log) and above it the drips from the ground out fiberglass substrate.
This looks bizarre to me.
The pic below is where bottom paint was peeling on a C30 and underneath the paint is dripping pink (or what looks like it) after the area was ground back.
For reference, the painted shaft is at the bottom (right behind the shaft log) and above it the drips from the ground out fiberglass substrate.
This looks bizarre to me.
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Main Message Board / Re: Adjust the cable tension f...
Last post by Ron Hill - Yesterday at 02:32:44 PMGuys : 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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Main Message Board / Re: Oil/temp warning
Last post by Ron Hill - Yesterday at 02:21:28 PMdcl : 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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Main Message Board / Re: Oil/temp warning
Last post by KWKloeber - Yesterday at 01:05:52 PMQuoteThe mechanic replaced the buzzer and the oil pressure switch on the engine but the problem persists.WOW. Didn't solve the problem, huh? Imagine that, Whack-a-Mole, willy-nilly, replacing parts instead of the mechanic troubleshooting the cause did nothing to resolve it.
I trust that he isn't charging you for the parts and his ineptness as a mechanic? If he is you got hosed.
Troubleshoot, troubleshoot, troubleshoot, THEN replace parts willy-nilly. I'd love to start a forum JUSt addressing that, I will be repeating that 'ad infinitum"
FIRST, is it the oil switch or the temp switch that is alarming? (The first step he should have taken to troubleshoot it.)
Rhetorical, but did he use the wiring schematic to understand why it is alarming?
Quotethe single wire from the oil sensor switch back to the panel would solve the problem or whether the whole harness needs to be removed and rebuilt.B engines have no "single wire" from the oil pressure switch that drives the alarmm unless the wiring is NOT Westerbeke OEM. The Wb scheme is a multi-conductor mess -- the alarm is always hot and shuts down when a "back voltage" is applied to the ground side of the alarm, driven by the fuel pump circuit.
Please post a pic of your oil switch so we can take a look and provide a path forward.
I went thru the wiring on the forum and checking the voltages at different points with another owner. If you can't locate that old post with a search I may be able to find it.
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Main Message Board / Re: Oil/temp warning
Last post by KWKloeber - Yesterday at 11:41:03 AM@d
Is it the OEM Westerbele harness? i.e., does she have the stupid, convoluted, back-asswards Westerbeke wiring scheme on the B engines, or, like Ron's XPB, does she have the intelligent wiring scheme that Universal Oshkosh put on the pre-B engines?
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Is it the OEM Westerbele harness? i.e., does she have the stupid, convoluted, back-asswards Westerbeke wiring scheme on the B engines, or, like Ron's XPB, does she have the intelligent wiring scheme that Universal Oshkosh put on the pre-B engines?
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Main Message Board / Oil/temp warning
Last post by dclintonbaker - Yesterday at 07:39:08 AMI realized this topic has been posted previously, but I was looking for some guidance of how to move forward.
I have a 2004 C34 MK II with a universal M 35 BC engine.
Recently I had to replace the gearbox because of a worn drive plate. To do that the engine had to be taken off the mounts (which were replaced) and moved forward into the cabin. The wiring harness was reconnected and since then there has been a warning from the oil/temp buzzer. The mechanic replaced the buzzer and the oil pressure switch on the engine but the problem persists. I'm suspecting that there is a short in the wiring harness. Moving forward I wonder if replacing the single wire from the oil sensor switch back to the panel would solve the problem or whether the whole harness needs to be removed and rebuilt. Any comments would be appreciated.
I have a 2004 C34 MK II with a universal M 35 BC engine.
Recently I had to replace the gearbox because of a worn drive plate. To do that the engine had to be taken off the mounts (which were replaced) and moved forward into the cabin. The wiring harness was reconnected and since then there has been a warning from the oil/temp buzzer. The mechanic replaced the buzzer and the oil pressure switch on the engine but the problem persists. I'm suspecting that there is a short in the wiring harness. Moving forward I wonder if replacing the single wire from the oil sensor switch back to the panel would solve the problem or whether the whole harness needs to be removed and rebuilt. Any comments would be appreciated.
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Main Message Board / Re: New fuel tank
Last post by LogoFreak - Yesterday at 05:50:16 AMYes Ron, will be getting a water maker as well before heading south.
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Main Message Board / Re: New fuel tank
Last post by Ron Hill - May 02, 2024, 02:52:21 PMAntoni : If Mexico is anything like the Bahamas - good RO water was 3/4 times the price of diesel!!
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