Mike Askin writes:
>I've been busy over the Christmas period buying another boat.
>I am now the very proud owner of a Royalty Class motor called
>Victoria. She was built in 1931, and in powered by a 1953
>Lister JP2 which sounds fantastic.
Envy, envy!!
>I had a go at starting it warm when I first saw the boat
>which was easy, but now the oil had thickened up it made
>the engine hard to turn and took quite a few times just
>to get it over compression. Eventually we got it over the
>compression point several times but still no action
Umm. Were you turning it over with the compression levers
down? I'm not strong enough to do this on my PH2 (but
the namby-pamby starter motor is) so if I start it on
the handstart I raise the compression levers (they're linked
and both of them move at once), swing the engine as fast
as I can, and drop the levers at the relevant moment and
hope from some action from the engine. I have seen other
people dropping one lever at at time but that's not an
option I have.
BTW if your back cabin stove is leaking I should get
it fixed ASAP as it could be leaking carbon monoxide.
Happy boating,
Dave
NB Albion
