On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >>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?
No - we were using the valve lifters. In fact the engine sports a very useful automatic compression lever dropper - in the form of a bit of string tied to the bar that the starting handle goes onto. > BTW if your back cabin stove is leaking I should get > it fixed ASAP as it could be leaking carbon monoxide. It only really leaks when the chimney is cold not causing enough draft to pull the smoke through - the path is across the top of the hob, then down the side of the oven, then under the oven before raising again up the flue! Most of the leak is smoke - which when cold will also contain carbon monoxide, so I've been keeping the back doors open when starting it. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
