Greetings,
I wanted to post my experience with a leak from my Onan MDKAW on my Nordic Tug 42. This took too long for reasons I don't think matter here but which are mentioned. The amount of grief this caused me (lost selling time and wasted heartbeats talking with guys with not-insignificant issues with their technical and business skills) lead to a no-prisoners determination/execution of a simple, inexpensive repair process that avoided the very popular recommendation of hoist and swap. I'd hoist/swap anything else I own, and have, but not this.. it's like working on a 4' 800# machine at the bottom of a 4.5' well.
The note is stupid long but by the time I executed both stages of the repair, I had a over a dozen parallel discussions with a very mechanical circle of friends, and writing it down once let those accelerate to the good/fun parts immediately. Since others have that boat/gen combination.. and still others likely have similarly pathological conditions on entirely different boats/gens, I wanted to report it for them too.
My Life-Sucking Gray Swan
I'm obviously happy the repair is done, but the best part for me.. I can finally actively sell the thing. There's a link to the thinking I put in to deriving the price at the end of that if anyone's interested.
Finally, I saw a bunch of guys jump on an earlier post about this making sincere efforts to help me out, so let me say here thank you. I never seem to get posted replies here sent to my email, so I'm not ignoring you if you do post something back.
Safe sailing,
G
I wanted to post my experience with a leak from my Onan MDKAW on my Nordic Tug 42. This took too long for reasons I don't think matter here but which are mentioned. The amount of grief this caused me (lost selling time and wasted heartbeats talking with guys with not-insignificant issues with their technical and business skills) lead to a no-prisoners determination/execution of a simple, inexpensive repair process that avoided the very popular recommendation of hoist and swap. I'd hoist/swap anything else I own, and have, but not this.. it's like working on a 4' 800# machine at the bottom of a 4.5' well.
The note is stupid long but by the time I executed both stages of the repair, I had a over a dozen parallel discussions with a very mechanical circle of friends, and writing it down once let those accelerate to the good/fun parts immediately. Since others have that boat/gen combination.. and still others likely have similarly pathological conditions on entirely different boats/gens, I wanted to report it for them too.
My Life-Sucking Gray Swan
I'm obviously happy the repair is done, but the best part for me.. I can finally actively sell the thing. There's a link to the thinking I put in to deriving the price at the end of that if anyone's interested.
Finally, I saw a bunch of guys jump on an earlier post about this making sincere efforts to help me out, so let me say here thank you. I never seem to get posted replies here sent to my email, so I'm not ignoring you if you do post something back.
Safe sailing,
G
