More Jobs

Our run to West Stockwith at the weekend highlighted a problem that we will have to have a look into this winter. The engine temperature was creeping up at high revs when the boat was on the plane.

At first we thought that this was likely to be an impellor on it's way out. So we changed this once we were safely moored up in West Stockwith. But alas on the way back the symptoms were just the same, with perhaps a slight improvement and the temperature climbing more steadily then on the downstream run.

Our first job is going to be replacing the impellor again. We had not realised that we had no new spare impellors and the one we have fitted is a part worn non genuine item which we are not happy with. So I ordered two new genuine Volvo impellors yesterday and we will pop one of these in at the weekend. Then we will have to nip back out onto the Trent at some point before we are pulled out of the water to see of that has made any further improvement.

If not then we have a few more jobs to do with the boat out of the water. We will replace the water intake hose, clean out the water intake and dismantle and clean out the raw water coolers and heat exchanger. All of which will be much easier on the hard standing of course. So as the boat is cooling fine at river cruising speeds it can wait until we are pulled out in January.