Sailing Vessel Triteia - The Iron Genny - Part IV - Episode 9 - Finally Getting the Yanmar Started!

Do your best impersonation Hello friends Today we're gonna Look at the this and that and see if it's fucked up or not And I'm gonna sit in the lazarette and curse for a while Take a break and then get back in the lazarette and curse again And I'm gonna lay down in the smallest place that I can possibly fit and Drop my tools and curse again There you go, so I don't need she can do it for me This is metal the ever elusive camera girl comic relief and antagonist She's been a big part of helping me with the boat. She shot a lot of the footage She's lent a hand when it was impossible for me to do things that I couldn't do otherwise You've all met pony the star of the show So people were asking to see my tall she doesn't like to be on camera, but you know, I forced her into it today somehow The What was the hardest part you think on the whole business other than dealing with me? The water lift, yeah, yeah, but it was it was easy But it became increasingly difficult. They're like 40 Yeah the putting the Yeah, yeah the air leak we had on the secondary fuel filter the We didn't have any good footage of one of our big battles Which was getting the wet exhaust hose on to the like the iron You at the top of the exhaust on the engine? It was so so difficult to get on and we kept I kept trying to force it on and it would just snap over snap Over and it was so stiff I would hold it and make tall would put her foot through the hole and we would try to push it to get it on and we couldn't get it and then it kept just like flying past and It's all suggested we put a wrench or a screwdriver or something in the pipe so it would Stop it and that's ended up that end up being the way we went about getting it on Was we would put it in we got it up to slip to that point and then we're able to force it up and get The I don't know We first you have to use something that doesn't have a head. Yeah turns out Screwdriver is what we ended up using and it made a big difference. So that was um quite a feat and we didn't we were both like Wrestling it for a while. So there's no footage of that. But um but yeah, she's um, she's helped so much very appreciative and You know, she laughed at me the whole time I was angry and she laughed at me when I wasn't angry And she continues to laugh at me so there's that and There are some footage of us coming up in the future. I don't want to spoil it but um some fun footage coming up on this episode we Make our first attempt to starting the engine. So Finishing hooking things up. My little brother Colby came from 29 palms We'd you know, our big plan was to try to sail on this day that didn't end up happening, but we made huge progress so he came down we hooked up the batteries and got everything else hooked up the control panel and Yeah, partially well hooked up enough to to try to start the engine and I Wired some things up wrong. We had lots of smoke coming out, which we don't have footage of that unfortunately, but that was quite an adventure and So that's this episode Very close very close to sailing So here we go again Natal everyone's been asking about she doesn't like the camera We'll see how well, we'll see how it goes So on the boat gonna try to sail today have to hook up the control panel hook up the batteries and See if it starts At the first five gallons of diesel fuel put that in Check in later Hooking up the control panel kind of temporary I'm gonna come back and Later just trying to July 23rd, July 23rd 3 something p.m. Repeat after me Okay, can you hand me the lid for it? Yeah, thank you, sir Plug this in Well, there will be no switch Yeah, I guess No fire yet, and then you start it so we got power to the engine to the controls, right I want to run the ******* Bilge pumps to the battery So that you know, yeah, we can bypass the whole house system for now run the bilge pump to the battery Wired everything up the way I thought it was supposed to be wired up Apparently something was wrong. Lots of smoke started coming behind the control panel. We turned everything off. I Just wired the battery directly to the engine now. I'm wiring the bilge pump Directly to the battery just so we can try to get this engine started and then I'll work out what's wrong Later with the other Okay, so this is the first attempt at starting the engine. It's not going to start right now Try it out see what happens Okay, Kobe, you want to try it It's getting fuel how do you know I mean aside the fact that started just shot right out. Oh Okay, try it again Coming out So we got the engine running ran for a while and Eventually stalled There's air on the fuel lines. So I tried bleeding it several times. No luck. So come back tomorrow play with that get it bled and You know see if we can get her to keep running for a long time she ran for quite a while before she died so Yeah, it's good though. Good day You know We have the engine running. So that's that's the big that's the big obstacle. So now we just sort out all the other stuff so yesterday we get the engine started and it ran for about Five minutes happily sounded great and then it stalled out and died and I couldn't get it to restart and I couldn't figure out What the issue was, but I was fine with the fact that we got it started so I was like call it a night put the boat to bed and Then driving home. I remembered when I filled the fuel tank. I put a rag under the vent the fuel tank vent Pose so I was like maybe that was you know, suffocating it or Creating it to be a pressurized system. So Let's cruise up and see if that rag still there and that might be the issue We'll find out when I turn it on So just now getting to the boat So Installing one of these inline hand fuel primer pumps See if that'll help us prime the engine the little pump on the engine is so difficult to get to and I don't know how much it's this thing is Shouldn't do the trick So just put in a hand priming bulb Right there Help me prime the engine better. I was having trouble with the little small pump that's on the side really difficult So just bled the engine Got diesel to come out all the points. So we're gonna try to start it and see what happens So got the Yanmar blood tonight sounded good Looked on the internet found out Couldn't get it to bleed to the injectors So found a forum people said undo the injector bolts put a full throttle turn it over start it up Start it up like that. I find on the injector bolts On the next episode The boat finally leaves the slip the first time in over six years We take her for a quick motor around the basin make sure the Yanmar is doing good Spend some time going through the sail inventory seeing what's what? Before finally getting to see how she handles out at sea spending the day sailing off the coast of Los Angeles Thanks for watching. Thanks for all your support. If you liked the episode, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see clips that didn't make it into the full episodes. I've started putting up patreon only videos on my patreon page Until next time hold her up another thing to add Mittal is wants everyone to know that pony is actually her hound Great co-pilot, but uh her dog just wanna and she also was very Adamant about me putting a disclaimer on the earlier video That when we lifted the engine into the truck it was late at night and the outfit was her pajamas Yeah, yeah, of course. I refuse to put that disclaimer on my video. I'm not sure why yeah 10 o'clock at night He decides that we should drive 50 miles To go get the engine It's not 50 miles, but 40 miles to go get the engine so that he could take it with him in the morning Yeah, so there's the disclaimer about her Also, the angle makes it look like it almost hit me in the face, but it didn't almost in the face No, I over lifted and that's what threw it off. Yeah, it went to my side. She did great. No problems We did one little test lift She just hammered through it one shot. No complaining amazing really amazing. So