Recent content by hardchines

Well not much left to say, I am a member of the Marlboro yacht club, nice club, nice barbecue area and club with bar. If you stay you may want a meal at the RACOON SALOON go from marina to top of the hill, turn left restaurant on left side on road a couple of stores away, casual, good food nice...

I did not read all the post so don't yell at me if I say something already mentioned, just a little info on solenoids. many diesel engine solenoids are three wire units, one ground wire,one high energy pull circuit wire and a low energy hold circuit wire . typically when the engine start...

I agree the dam jabsco blowers suck, I lost mine 2 years ago in the trent severn waterway in Canada, was able to buy a home dryer hose at a lock near a town and connected it to my bilge blower, NG said I needed a blower hooked up and I believed them. unit is older and now that you mention the...

wrong antifreeze I think I also noticed you put in Shell elt antifreeze, I tried to find out what it is made of, found lots of bla bla bla and its the best best but not a fact to be found! I believe that nextgen calls for ethylene glycol, and at the ratio I mentioned in previous note, 30/70...

antifreeze ?? Sounds like you did your homework, I see you changed your antifreeze from the factory juice, I remember talking to Next gen about the anti freeze, I also remember them saying the ratio was very important but I do not remember what mix he called for, did you mention to them that...

I think you are correct, I have only run my unit in the relatively cool waters of the North East, I think I would make sure of the water flow just to make sure , if you have not already done it, a new impeller is a cheap test, or just fix it the correct way, move north!! Well one other thing is...

trouble shoot it sometimes the contacts in the starter sol. get burnt up, and need to be replaced, but you could have a batt problem, of course you could swap batteries and of course connections on batts and starter, and ground connections are just as important!

nexgen 3.5 If a 30 amp shore power line does the job I recommend the 3.5 Nex Gen, it has great load starting performance as it has a 5KW alternator but only has enough HP to produce 30 continuous amps, no brushes so no alternator maintenance, extremely smooth as it has a counter rotating set...

If I may, the NEXT GEN 3.5 KW is not a 3600 rpm generator , it is called a mid speed Gen, the Kabota single runs at 2600 or 2800 rpm (crs) , the engine drives the alternator though a very tight special belt , the pulley sizes on motor and alternator make the brush-less alternator spin at...

SORRY IF THIS POST COMES UP MORE THEN ONCE HAD ISSUES POSTING If I may, the NEXT GEN 3.5 KW is not a 3600 rpm generator , it is called a mid speed Gen, the Kabota single runs at 2600 or 2800 rpm (crs) , the engine drives the alternator though a very tight special belt , the pulley sizes on...

Thanks to all, going solo is easy, just make sure you marry a younger woman, actually she is all for me going solo, we spent 5 weeks at a time for 5 years in a row on my last boat (41 CC Commander FDMY) never a complaint, but she is not a lover of being out on the boat, likes the beach more then...

Old boater getting ready to retire, hoping to do some long range solo cruising while the wife keeps working. I am just starting to modify a recently acquired small (26) cruiser into my trawler, boat name will be "MY VENTURE", hello to all.