This was one testing tune up. We decided to service the engine before starting it for the first time in 5 months and everything was going fine until we got t...

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hello Volvo it's good to see you again

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it's time to get the motor running we're

gonna start with some maintenance first

we're gonna go through the fuel system

so I'm gonna shut this valve here in the

off position up there's a little

cockroach there you go so we've cut off

the fuel and we're gonna start by

replacing the pre fuel fuel filter and

then we're going to replace the main

field filter so we replace this just

after we left marathon about seven

months ago but it was not the pre

maintenance type of replacement it was

let it go way too far the engines

gunking up and not running anymore

situation so we're going to avoid that

in the future

looks what do you think pretty good to

me

I don't see any gunk in it whatsoever

it's still fairly new so I don't think

we're gonna replace this it looks pretty

good

well we're having quite the time getting

this fuel filter off we've been trying a

lot of things wd-40

we had a filter wrench this piece of

rubber here and it broke on us

a cruiser came by Bruce a veteran said

this happens all the time

I guess to him so said to hammer a

screwdriver through it through the

center of it and try turning it so we've

got a screwdriver in there I'm gonna

hammer it a little further it's a mess

in here but I brought the screwdriver it

did help us to turn it a little but now

the screwdrivers too long so I need to

maybe get try to get it out if possible

oh yeah I'm gonna have to get the

screwdriver out all right we're gonna

keep working at it but this is this is

difficult how long has it been so this

has been about I've been working like

four to five hours I smashed my hands up

you can see I have a screwdriver

sticking through the filter after using

the belt and wrenching on it you know

it's very hard to access it down there

that's probably common for most people

on a sailboat some probably have a

little better access than we do but

jammed the screwdriver through and was

wrenching on it had a hammer smacking on

it you know multiple times I got it

about a half a turn and then it

completely seized up it disconnected the

hoses and just took off the mount so now

I have the mount and I need to hopefully

I can get some better leverage here and

I need to get this stupid thing off it's

been it's been a nightmare trying to get

the filter off I don't know if any of

you guys have been through this yet

forever but I was kind of running out of

ideas so just took the whole thing off

and then

start from here our idea was to come in

where we're gonna pull the boat out soon

to do the bottom job and we talked to

Isaac we did a little recon mission

figured out the prices let him know

we're interested in pulling our boat out

soon and showed him what we had and he

passed it to a mechanic and the mechanic

came back pretty quickly and he had it

removed so here's the filter see the

filter here is all beat up we were

pretty sure it was cross threaded

because it was so insane but looking at

the threads it actually looks pretty

good here down here so I don't know if

you could see that but the threads don't

look cross threaded at all

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I'm just gonna put some oil around the

outside of this I'm gonna put a little

bit of the marine grease on the threads

here hopefully make it easier to get off

and the oil is so that this gasket

doesn't bunch up when you put it on and

you get fuel leak so I'm gonna put it

all on here put it together and then I'm

gonna prime it I'm gonna leave the hose

off and just put a funnel in and dump

some diesel and prime it that way while

it's already attached okay we've now got

the impeller off I was just checking the

impaler to make sure it's looking good

it's got all the blades so I'm gonna

just put some Lube on it comes with an

impeller I had some extra so I'm just

gonna lube up each of the sides and the

gasket of course ripped apart when I

pulled it off so I'm going to sand this

down and I have here a new gasket

okay I've checked the raw water strainer

opened up the seacock and we're gonna

start it up and let the oil get hot so

it's more of a liquid and then we're

going to drain the oil out change the

oil and the oil filter

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just making sure we got water flow here

the color of this oil is much lighter

than what we pulled out so I mean it's

like it's you know transparent syrupy

looking and the stuff we pulled out was

just black

so when we were cleaning up and

reorganizing the boat we found two

radiator caps down and a deep crevasse I

had forgotten we had them they actually

came with the boat so this one's brand

new this one's new ish here is the old

one that was on which honestly I think

it's still functional if you look at the

spring and the inside but I'm gonna go

ahead and replace it and put a new one

on I'm playing around on the boat alone

Michael went to ladies lunch and we're

actually gonna join her soon it should

be pretty cool after the ladies have

their lunch then the men are allowed to

show up later and I've actually never

seen this place but heard a lot about it

it's up on the hill so be excited to go

check that out right now I've been

tracing down our bilge pump issue

because when we returned we have to

village pumps and our automatic bilge

pump that's wired to the float was not

working when I got back so we have our

multimeter here and I'm testing the

resistance right now and I haven't

hooked up to the float so I've cut the

connections I have this wires going here

and each of these wires coming out of

our float switch here is wired up right

here to our multimeter and when I do so

basically what I do to test it is just

lift up on this and I should see a short

shortage right here but if you look I

lift it up and I get nothing so honestly

I'm kind of new obviously to everything

but I'm new to to the multimeters and

seems pretty simple but I luckily have

another float switch on board here same

kind of float switch it looks a little

old so I mean it might be time to get a

new one but I'll show you what happens

when I connect this float switch up the

exact same way and when I lift it up

check out what happens on the multimeter

okay I've got these wires here connected

to our our extra float switch that was

on the boat it's the same settings under

multimeter here and if I lift up on the

float here

when I let down lift back up so I don't

know I mean it appears that that flip

switches is not doing anything so

hopefully the bilge pump is fine I

checked the fuse it wasn't blown so I

think our float switch just went out

which was crazy there wasn't much water

in the village when we got here hardly

any at all so I don't I don't know if it

was just got really hot and just from

sitting for a long time inactive or what

but I'm gonna wire it up this flow

switch and then see if we get anything

different with our bilge pump I've got

the new float down and I just

temporarily wired everything down just

to test it out and I have the fuse out

so I'm gonna go ahead and put the fuse

back in and show you what we got

so the village is running all by itself

I think it's stronger when you lift it

up now it shuts off now watch when I

lift it up weird

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it's kind of doing a lot of weird things

last time I connected it lifted the

float switch and then when I let it down

the bills kept running all by itself

okay I've added some water just a little

bit but enough to cover probably not the

smoothest way to test things we're gonna

get some extra bilge pumps another flow

pump but it looks like the float just

went out and and when I first did my

test I didn't have any water in here

because I pumped it out manually and I'm

thinking the bilge needs water to pump

out and so I tried first testing it with

no water and when I let the floats down

it kept running I'm gonna go ahead and

wire everything up you know water tight

and hook it back up I think it's working

now I think we just had a bad float

switch

yep

this is the house that Margie and her

husband built after cruising for 25

years they decided to settle here and

looper on they bought the land with

nothing on it and built their dream home

here on gringo Hill with views of looper

on Harbor and the ocean out in the

distance we got to meet cruisers and

retired cruisers alike get valuable

Intel and here awesome stories we found

another leak looks like it wasn't the

seams on the inside that was the problem

we actually had a spa underneath the

well under the waterline so it's back

here actually we brought the dinghy out

of the water and used a spray bottle in

some soap to locate some areas that were

leaking that we hadn't realized and this

one we heard so we didn't even have to

find it with the soap in the water it's

pretty obvious this is a bad spot and we

ran out of patching material but there's

extra on the bottom actually they used

to hold the slides and then semi-hard

bottom so I cut a piece of that I

cleaned it really well and I'm gonna put

it on here give the contacts in that

account

what are you cleaning it with oh and why

do we think the other patch didn't hold

we did not clean it with alcohol so what

we found with the seams is we glued them

once they didn't stay scraped all the

glue out cleaned it with alcohol and now

they seem to be stained so really really

important to get both surfaces nice and

clean or else that contact cement isn't

gonna bond michael is cutting

this is what was holding our slats in

which we we lost on the way to Cuba they

all snapped in half and we have a

alternative method for a hard bottom

that we use so we really don't need this

so Michaels cutting this apart and using

it to patch up some areas pretty

resourceful okay I'm pretty hopeful that

we figured out what's going on with the

bilge pump I took off this fitting here

and it's supposed to only allow water to

go one way and which would be out you

know up and out of the boat and it

should seal and not allow water to go

back down but when you look through you

can see you can definitely see there's a

gap so this seal here it's not it's not

sealing up so I believe that the water

is going up and out of the boat and then

when the float switch deactivates water

is trickling back down into the bilge

and it's keeping it running it's not

allowing it just to shut off because I

don't know exactly what I just know that

this is supposed to seal and not allow

water back down so I believe this could

be the issue because the wiring the

float switch we tested the bilge pump is

working well so this could definitely

cause it to continue running at a

smaller rpm when the float switch

deactivates so we're gonna go in town go

look around and hopefully find one of

these if not we'll have to order one or

maybe ask a boater on on the net pretty

disappointing we worked really hard to

patch the dinghy and it's it's way worse

than it was before so we're not really

sure what happened on another note we

did a lot of work to the website this

week so feel free to go check that out

bum thunder boat comm we've got a budget

up there as well that is showing all of

our expense tracking where our money's

going what projects were up to at the

moment as well as all the food

see all the food that we're buying so

after all Michaels patch jobs patch

patch shown the other patch job patched

right here and now the ding is worse

than it was so we came up this morning

and it was totally flat so I mean it's

losing air quicker than it was before

all the patching so it's very

interesting so this week I don't know I

mean we were pretty hard at work I mean

we got the engine running so now we're

ready

you know we're feel confident to move

the boat pull it out of the water which

we plan to do soon hopefully next week

and but the website is awesome and we

have shirts now we have available you

can go on the website and our first

design is up and you can order shirts

off our website so that's cool so check

it out big thank you to our patrons and

donors shout out to Chad Siebert and

Suzanne Schuester Michael's mother for

helping us troubleshoot the online store

working the kinks out and also being our

very first customers thank you so much

yeah thanks to you guys we're able to

continue creating content and we strive

to increase the quality and consistency

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