25 Monday Nov 2013
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anyone wishing to come here, please wait until i get to guaymas and we can have a repair party. right now i am only trying to patch together this brokenness so i can make it to haul and fix yard for cheapo….
for christmas i want a running engine….lol–repair guy is in place for this–only problem seems to be the engine its and its cooperativity.
happy holidays to everyone, i will wish later the specific holidays…as they arrive
22 Friday Nov 2013
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my engine is resistent to repair for now… we broke the woodruff key for the crankshaft bolt, so we find a new one and then further work ….cannot turn crank without this lil piece of metal.
we will go to melaque to find one and be back on this project in no time.
i will be in the anchorage in december….looking forward to the daily breezes…
update….
we found the key thingies in melaque. we will look for the head gasket when we take head to machinists.
17 Sunday Nov 2013
Posted in summer in barra --repairs 101 B
and so as our problem has come to head gasket at present, before we go onward i must wait until payday in december.
so we will have a panga tow me to the mangroves when payday comes and we will work there, where i am safe from dragging anchor and free of rent so we can fix me for christmas.
hopefully.
until payday, nothing happens.
had i known this was the case i would have gone to mangroves already instead of sitting in a marina with itchy feet unable to do anything or go anywhere with a seized engine.
the head gasket problem was caused by the runaway bit this engine did in june, and now is seized as a result of all of this mayhem….
new engine color schemeught the drop year was 1982, but i was incorrect. it was june 1988. ok.. still has no indented numerals on it anywhere. yes we searched!!!
i had 
thought the drop year was 1982, but i was incorrect. it was june 1988. ok.. still has no indented numerals on it anywhere. yes we searched!!!
15 Friday Nov 2013
Posted in summer in barra --repairs 101 B
new engine color scheme
ok so we were trying for noisey and smelly and leaky today.
we got clunk. so we fixed battery connections…. funny the electrical system works some better now…
ok
second clunk day. hhmmmmmmmm….
and of course, no one has a prybar for the fly wheel.
ok. .tomorrow we go for unclunk and big noise and smelly and leaky and prolly muy smokey. we just see what color smokey after unseizing engine..
ok…..
i am sooo ready to move this barge out to anchor……
poco a poco……
13 Wednesday Nov 2013
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we have still engine parts to find today, and then i need to leave marina for lagoon..is happier on anchor.
banda anchqa works…
wifi doesnt work, despite being delivered allegedly to boats in amrina from wannabe 5 star posher than most places hotel.. i figger if they cannot reliably deliver wifi to the locations they promise to deliver it, that they are not 5 stars..the wifi is 1 star wifi. i still cannot figger how th edesk guy gets such good results and the tech guy cannot make the system work. hhmmmmmm
today we hunt tiny parts for engine–we need the small rubber gaskets/washers fro the fuel line fittings that fit to the injector pump and injectors…. this could be an interesting day. we will be going anywhere from 6 miles to 70 miles from barra on bus… 70 miles is a sure thing–pump rebuilder!! so we will work out way there, and if find parts before 70 miles, awesome. if not…ok….we go back to pump rebuild guy, as he has em.
pix of engine colors coming soon….lol artist putting specialized stuffies on it. heeheehee
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