It took about an hour to make a temporary repair and we were off again. We hadn’t planned to spend time in Fort Lauderdale but if you had to pick a place to break down this is a pretty good place to have it happen. Next stop, the Keys.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Engine troubles
Our engine, a Yanmar 4JH2TE (All those letters and numbers mean it’s a 4 cylinder diesel with a turbo charger). It’s been a great reliable engine up until today. On a flat ocean about 3 miles from Fort Lauderdale the oil alarm went off, I jumped up and killed the engine. When I opened up the compartment I found about a gal of oil under the engine! The oil pressure sensor had sprung a leak!
It took about an hour to make a temporary repair and we were off again. We hadn’t planned to spend time in Fort Lauderdale but if you had to pick a place to break down this is a pretty good place to have it happen. Next stop, the Keys.
It took about an hour to make a temporary repair and we were off again. We hadn’t planned to spend time in Fort Lauderdale but if you had to pick a place to break down this is a pretty good place to have it happen. Next stop, the Keys.
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