[Alberg30] RE: Bukh 10 Startup

[Scott Wallace]

I just bought a Phil Rhodes designed Seafarer Rhodes Meridian...full keeled
small cruiser 25 lod, 5000 lbs displacement with a Volvo MD-1
diesel...never having owned a diesel before, I find this thread quite
interesting...espcially since I flew to Tampa last weekend and tried to
motor my boat over to another marina, naturally on the other side of the
drawbridge!  We tried starting the engine with just a turning over and no
firing...we hired a local mechanic who bled the lines, charged the battery
and had us install a new electric fuel pump to move the fuel from the tank
to the engine.  It was a puralator electic pump for motor cars with
carburetors!

It never started so a rubber dingy with a 9 hp. outboard ignomiously towed
us through the pass and over to our destination.

The Rhodes Meridian was built in 1962 in Amsterdam, Holland by the
Amsterdam Shipyard, Inc. by G. DeVries Lentsch to drawings by Philip L.
Rhodes, another of my favorite naval architects, along with CARL ALBERG,
John Alden, The Fifes of Scotland, Laurence Giles, Bill Tripp and Al
Mason...

Scott Wallace, WATERMARK

J Bergquist wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Is this some kind of joke on the fact that I went to school in Holland?
>
> Interesting to note that this diesel apparently also has a hand pump,
> for priming the fuel system, just like the A-4, and like Bob chambers
> mentioned was present on his 4-cylinder diesel. The instructions clearly
> state that you should use the hand pump to prime the fuel system before
> initial startup, then loosen the injector bleeder nut, then crank the
> engine till there's no more air in the lines, then tighten the nut back
> down. And I quote:
>
> 5. Ontlucht het bradnstofsysteem op de volgende wijze:
> a) Pomp met behulp fan het hofboompje van de brandstofopvoerpomp (fig.
> 8) tot de brandstof in de doorzichtige slang naar de tank vrij van
> luchtbellen is.
> b) Maak zonodig de brandstofaansluiting op de verstuiverhouder los (fig.
> 3 pos. 26)
> c) Draai de motor dan tot de brandstof vrij is van luchtbellen. Zet de
> leidingsaansluiting op de verstuiver weer vast.
>
> Translation:
>
> 5. Bleed the fuel system in the following manner:
> a) Pump with the handle on the fuel lift pump till the fuel in the clear
> sight on the bowl is free of bubbles.
> b) Loosen the fuel connection on the injector.
> c) Crank the engine till no more air is in the lines. Then re-tighten
> the injector connection.
>
> You didn't think I'd be able to read that manual, did you?
>
> Oh, and I looked at the rest of their website, and it is decidedly
> unrepresentative of the general dutch weather...way too many pictures of
> clear skies, and nowhere near enough rain...
>
> thanks for the link, and the chance to de-winterize my rusty old dutch
> skills...
>
> Okay that's really enough engine talk for one week. I promise no more
> motor posts on this list.
>
> ciao ;-)
>
> J
>
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