[Public-list] Timbuktu - Motor

[C.B. Currier]

Patty,

Great News!
However If you have the time to get into the Boat One thing you can do to
minimize your probems would be to address the A4.
1. Hand pump as much of what is in the oil sump (pan) out
2. Pull the sparkplug and disconnect the fuel intake as well as fuel pump
to carb. Also pull the Cap off the distributor (Probably full of water).
Drain the gas.
3. Pour Sea Foam, or Marvel Mystery Oil into each of the 4 sparkplug holes
4. Pour New Oil and Seafoam or Marvel Mystery Oil into the Oil.
5. Hand Crank the motor with the sparkplugs out.

These Steps will help you reduce the rebuild cost by immediately
protecting the inner workings of the Motor itself.

Finally when you do got to get the motor re-habbed all you should need to
do is replace the Ignition (Possibly distributor) Wires, Plugs and
battery.

Also spray the entire motor with either Deep Creep or WD40. This will help
to prepare any bolts that may need to be loosened in the near future.

Corrosion is likely to take place on all electrical connections but going
for a swim definitely exacerbates the corrosion.

Again, do this asap and it will significantly reduce the trouble you will
have to go through to get the boat back in order.

-- 
C.B. Currier
A30 Ches. Bay Rear-Commodore Racing
Infinity #57
Daybreak #458


Patty J said:
> I found her and she is fine, maybe $10,000  worth of damage, maybe more.
> She almost sank in the harbor due to an idiotic problem...the sink in
> the salon, the hose broke loose and started siphoning water into the
> boat, over the cushions.  I can't believe it.  Almost all the teak cap
> rail is gone, the hull is scraped up badly and needs a new paint job.
> Where the cap rail gave way, a lot of the fiberglass is bent into the
> deck, some of the stantions were pushed into the deck.  The batteries
> are fried, the bildge pump too and the A4 needs to be pulled and
> rebuilt.  But, of all the boats that were in the same danger mine came
> out the best.   I went down to the yacht club this morning to find
> members on my boat pumping it out and they had brought it back to it's
> slip.  What a great bunch of people!!!
>
> Thanks for all your concern.  I just wish the pics I sent here had come
> through.  I lost 30 feet of my bluff where I live in me whitte humble
> home built in 1909 as an episcople rectory (1,400 sq. ft...been in the
> family since 1954).  I was out on the bluff standing there barefoot
> watching the bay turn into an ocean, when I felt the vines under my feet
> just ever so slowing moving and I jumped four feet away and the bluff I
> was standing on dropped to the beach.  And that was just the beginning
> of the erosion.  My own case is nothing compared to my neighbors west of
> here in Pascaguola, Gulf Port, Biloxi, Pass Cristian, New Orleans.  It's
> undescribable.
>
> Patty
> Timbuktu survives!
> #461
>
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