Search results

After almost 2 years of flawless performance, this summer the autopilot only wanted to turn to port. Telephone consults with Robert Edwards, owner of Benmar, guided me thru removing the circuit boards in the power unit, sending them in for analysis, reinstalled, no joy. Next sent the pilothouse...

I couldn’t turn the port propeller by hand after the aft strut cutlass bearing was replaced a year ago. Beginning this year I wrapped a line and stalled the engine out. While cutting the line away, come to find out I still couldn’t spin the prop by hand. Bearing had over 150 hrs. on. Hauled out...

Lately my chain was throwing rust as it went thru the gypsy then rust was on my deck. Had to change. Once I had removed the chain, I washed away the stain and sanded off the Cetol Marine Light and kept going to get bare wood. The chain was acid washed and hot dip galvanized. Coating was 3 ml...

Lately my chain was throwing rust as it went thru the gypsy then rust was on my deck. Had to change. Once I had removed the chain, I started to wash away the stain and sand off the Cetol Marine light and kept going to get wood bare. Chain was acid washed and hot dip galvanized. Coating was 3 ml...

Although the running operating temperatures are within reason at the thermostats, at the other end of the engines, the freeze plugs on the aft end of the cylinder head are at 225 when running at 1600 rpm. Using an infrared thermometer, below the thermostat, port is 170 and starboard is 152. The...

Onan 8MDKAL EHL 729 About 9 hours of Onan run time earlier I completed ( I hoped) a part switch out because it acted like it was the culprit, the stop solenoid. It looks like it attaches to the speed control level. When it runs the the stop solenoid pulls the lever back. A few starts back, the...

Crawling over the top of FL108 and felt the heat coming off the alternator. The engine hadn't been run for 2 days. The alternator was replaced with a remanufactured unit 6 months ago. Turned off battery charger and checked 12 hrs later 105 degrees. Any ideas on a fix other than remove/replace?

Owned 1972 Grand Banks 42 Classic 2 years. Last year had windlass motor rebuilt. The brushes had caused alot of scratching on the commutator (think thats what the contact area is called) and the motor wasn't spinning. Reinstalled and it worked well. Few months back, a change. Previously, the...