Hi RW,

Visible progress at last. For so long everything was cleaning, prepping, removing. Finally in the maintaining, fixing, reinstalling phase. Engine we stripped all the peripherals: alternator, pumps, starter, wiring, hoses, heat exchangers so we could clean up, derust (is that a word?) and repaint. Almost back together.

Now working on the refer. Ripped off the front and top of counter, cut the box into 4 pieces to get it out of the boat and made it 2" shorter, filled the hole with new insulation, glassed the pieces back together (inside the cabin since it wouldn't fit in the hatch reassembled) and just returned from putting another coat of epoxy on the inside. Hope to finish this in a few weeks if I can stay in town. Hope to launch this winter.

At some point want a good sewing machine but have too many things higher up on the list for now.

Hi Skip
Hows it going? Any new progress on the 422?
Saw your post on the Reads Sailmaker. I just finished the reasearch in the Sailrites and the Reliable , Thompsons and other lookalikes. It was a interesting project. ought the Barracuda 2000U-33 from Rel1iable and have done a few projects with it and love it. glad I didnt spend the $$ for the Sailrite LSZ-1 for the usei I will put it to it does the same job for 1/2 the money.

Yeah, I'm a visual type. Do much better with pictures and diagrams. Speaking of pictures, never could get the photos off my new Android so took some new shots of the shaft log. As soon as I catch my breath I'll download those and send them over.

So you have two filter banks. Are they single or dual filters? I'm going with one dual Racor system fed by the Peason selector valve. Where is your selector mounted? Mine was under the companionway and I moved it to under the chart table. The fuel hoses were old and cracked and needed replacing anyway and I like to be able to access the selector without having to get inside the engine box.

email skip dot mac at earthlink.net

I have 2 fuel filter banks. They are fed on the intake side from 2 sides of a T the middle of the T(2) is fed from the Pearson Starboard or Port selector valve. Output from each filter go to a 3way valve (#1) leg 1 and 2. Common to 3way valve (#2) These two 3WValves are common to common. 3WV#2 leg 2 to Fuel Polish Pump, output from FPP to 3way valve (#3) common. Leg 1, to T4 in return fuel line from engine to tank Pearson selector valve. 3WV#3 Leg 2 to T3 in fuel supply line from Pearson tank valve supplying engine lift pump.
I know your eyes are crossed mine are. It is much easier to visualize it from a diagram than to explain. Send me an email address and I will send you my diagram.
The question of never ever ending maintenance/projects was a rhetorical one.
R.W.
N4RNV at att dot net

By the way, you asked earlier if there is ever an end. I'll tell you a story. My last boat before a 30 year detour to career and family, I owned for 6-7 years. For a lot of that time I lived on board and tried to stay on top of maintenance on a regular basis. In that 6-7 years I recall just one period of about 2 months where every system on the boat was working perfectly all at the same time and I had no major overhauls, repairs or upgrades pending.

OK, I'm having trouble visualizing your system so if I may, let me ask a few questions. I guess first, what I'm thinking about is a backup for the electric fuel pump on my engine that feed the injector pump. After all, that pump is 25 years old and if it dies I am assuming the engine will not get fuel and not run.

1. Which electric fuel pump are you referring to, the one on the engine that feeds the injector pump or a second pump you have added (like the one for the polishing system)?

2. Where is this pump getting the fuel feed? From one of the standard tanks?

3. Outlet of the pump to a 3 way valve. To the common side of the valve or one of the switched legs? What goes to the other two legs of the valve.

4. From there to a T but not clear about the T. This is where I really get lost.

Backup fuel feed was easy, I diverted the electric pump outlet into a 3 way valve ($14 Possum Marine) into a line "T" on the return line and and the eng supply line.

Have a dual Racor and a dual/bypass oil filter that I will install once the engine is bolted back down. Will be looking into a backup fuel feed system as well.

Took the photo with my new Android and haven't transfered it to my laptop. Will try to send it to myself and the forward over. If I don't like the resolution will go back and redo it with the Nikon. Since it's hard to see under there I want a good record of what it looks like in case I have to mess with something in there as it will certainly be by the Braille method.

Wow I am lucky that the PO already did the engine mounts and a new PSS, shaft cutless and strut bearing. But I would like to see any shots you have of the bed and shaft area. Completed the fuel polishing system this W/E sure is Nice to have the redundancy of 2 filters selectable, a electric fuel pump to prime / purge and as back up for the mechanical one. All new fuel lines and generator plumbed in for fuel and cooling.

I didn't totally remove the engine since I am keeping the original W58 but did need to replace the motor mounts, all the hoses, and trickiest, the hose attached to the shaft log which is pretty much inaccessible with the engine in place. So I disconnected at the flange and hoisted the engine in the engine room. Removed the pedestal, built a brace on the cockpit floor and hooked a chain hoist through the hole in the cockpit down to the lifting ring on the block. Wrapped a chain around the transmission and braced across the engine box under the companionway and lifted that end with another hoist. If you have never seen the whole area under your engine I can send you a picture.

I certainly would like to do some sailing but am enjoying this part of the messing about. Latest, I ripped out the old refer box and will be adding extra insulation and a new Frigoboat. If all goes as planned I will be putting the old liner, but a bit smaller, back in the old hole.