What could go wrong?
The business end of my Yanmar 1GM10 block A week ago I set off with a friend and colleague on the beginning of a 6 week circumnavigation around Vancouver Island. It ended the first day, with an engine failure of significant proportion, which definitively called us home. A winter's preparation, an overhaul of paint and varnish, many fiddly projects on my part took up weeks of effort. My crew spent treasure or family time or both to arrange their lives and schedules around three two-week legs. There was no ambiguity about the sentence. Limping into Kingston for a night, then a tow back to Seattle by my sympathetic brother made the situation crystal clear. My initial efforts to find a mechanic to take on the job have not been fruitful, and the prospect of re-powering, enormously seductive as it is, is an order of magnitude more costly. Why not try doing the job myself? As Calder says..."this procedure is well within the capability of an amateur mechanic an...