On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we do everything we can to prepare the engines that we have not started up in almost a decade on our custom 435 c...

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hey guys welcome back to onward

lifestyle today the engines are almost

done we just need to do a little bit

more of these maintenance and guess what

my dad's gonna help me I'm gonna help

you down here I'll show you're doing

first mm-hmm okay you know I think we're

sitting pretty good on these engines

everything's in fuel systems in water

systems in all the electricals in I'm

feeling good but before we turn these

over just a few things I want to do I

want to change out the impeller I want

to tighten up these belts or replace

them own it take a good look at it

somewhere pretty loose

when I change the internal fuel filter

here I want to change the rape horror

fuel filter we're gonna do an oil change

and we do a gearbox oil change out of

the SD 20 sale drives

I've got everything lined up here all

our filters belts I even pulled the

spare water pump down so I could check

out well here's the here's my concern

with this I can't see the bolt under

here so want to look at this to see the

adjustment and it's plain as day right

here so that's gonna be a blind

adjustment I'll just have to reach under

here to tighten this belt but looks

fairly easy belt looks like it's in

great condition so just to be a little

bit of tightening on there

okay i'ma let's get going first thing I

need to do is take the guard off

mm I did the hard part by getting the

guard off my dad can do the easy part

and inspect and tighten the belts okay

both belts look like they're in great

shape but this one is too loose so let's

tighten that one up first

Oh

yeah these feel much better definitely

next thing we have to do is put the

impeller and that goes right here so

I'll take the cover off for my dad and

then he can work on it

once that gasket how's it doing don't

peel the gasket be real careful that

gasket see it yeah it's a little ring

what do I do

just kind of peel it up really slow with

your finger which side yeah yeah yeah do

that side just make sure it doesn't

damage it there you go perfect

okay now set that right down there and

let's look at this impeller look how old

that looks so it's good thing we're

changing it

okay after cleaning this up it looks in

pretty good condition actually

everything's still flexible there's no

cracks feels good but I'll put a new one

in

I do have five extra impellers but I'll

throw this on my inventory just in case

we run into a situation where we need a

sixth one I'm gonna lube up the new

impeller get it nice and slick to slide

it right in also protects it

and it's in back the plate you can feel

a little wear but it's relatively smooth

so while Emma and I have been working on

the engine Liv's been polishing up parts

and painting any nuts and bolts or

brackets that have any corrosion on it

just trying to keep this engine as clean

as we can now that we replaced the

impeller the coolant seems to be low so

we got to fill that up

good thing I took my dad's work before

he did anything too permanent

it says right here removed the coolant

recovery tank cap and fill with coolant

mix to lower limit not all the way up to

here so I hadn't remove it obviously

okay so big confession I volunteered

that Emma and I could do the oil change

never done it can't be that hard right

hard just with the wheel right turned

out perfect because teal gave us the

wrong instruction they tricked this yeah

so I've seen him do this a million times

okay Emma I want you to just hold this

in there but don't bring it in to the

internet and just hang on to it and then

we can extract the wheel like that

you ready yeah okay this pump is really

hard

I know Manuel pumps is what we wanted to

do because then it's easier to store and

we don't have to worry about motors or

anything like that but it's a workout I

don't want to admit the tale that I

can't do this I can it's just a workout

taking a lot longer and then when I

anticipated all right so I think I've

done I believe that I got everything if

not a lot of it the majority of the oil

out of these engines or this engine

anyways I'm gonna say this was

exhausting

but I'm not gonna tell to you how hard

it was to use that pump so he'll be

surprised yeah

Lynden tell me how hard this was this

little pump is handy because it's small

but it packs a wallop trying to pump

this stuff out it's going though

it's taking about an hour on each engine

slow and steady wins the race I don't

know I might get a bigger pump for the

next oil change we'll see

okay oil has been extracted from the

engine will get the oil filters removed

and replaced and get fresh oil put in

trying to do this without making too

much of a mess

okay you know getting down to the wire

here last few items to do after hundreds

of things that we've done to these

engines as far as electrical connections

and fuel and the seawater strainers I

mean it's it was a little overwhelming

in the beginning but I did my research I

did a lot of reading a lot of

soul-searching and just kind of immersed

myself for this whole project and I'm

feeling pretty comfortable even after

all of this I'm just a few minutes away

just a few minutes from firing these up

I just gotta get new oil in here prime

the system bleed a couple valves and

test fire

it's it's gonna be emotional I think I

don't know why but either I'm gonna be

elated or extremely disappointed bit

nervous but I do feel comfortable with

what I've done so let's be exciting

regardless

yes my husband is so talented and

handsome we are gonna start these

engines but first we need to get some

fuel yes I agree

my daddy is so handsome aren't you daddy

what are you guys talking about let's

just go get some fuel and we're just

putting in 20 gallons in each tank we

don't want to keep the tanks full

because we're falling out

and we got a nice weather to do it

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these are new seawater strainers and

they're dry so we're gonna prime these

up okay can you see you don't ya

overfill it see it coming up yeah slow

down okay

this is it people think I'm ready

everything's looking good we have fuel

in the tanks but these haven't been

fired off in a while so I read through

the manual it says to hold down the kill

button or the stop button while you're

cranking it over just to get some

lubrication into the engine and wait a

few minutes and do it again

so we'll do that two or three times

before we try to fire it off okay you

ready

hit it hit the stop button once oh

that's good that works do it again

okay okay I'm not gonna lie I am nervous

accumulation of hundreds of hours of

work here all goes down to this moment

okay lid okay

starboard engine put it in on position

touch the touch the stop button okay let

go okay holding down the stop button

crank it over holy crap I think it's

gonna work

holy crap did you hear that yeah yeah

that works I think it's good okay so

we're gonna do this two or three times

just to get the lubrication going

through the engine before we fire them

up but Wow

okay let's head over to the portside

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I'm a little nervous

we've turned him over a few times now

holding the kill switch at the same time

just to get the lubricants flowing

through this engine and each time it

feels like they just want to start up

but I mean there's countless hours in

preparation here with the electrical the

fuel systems the seawater strainers just

cleaning this up and the housing around

all this I mean it's been a ton of work

and a good feeling when you wanna are

you up you're in the cockpit okay I'm on

the port engine right now is the key in

okay this time you're not holding the

stop switch right we're gonna turn it

over and see what happens

yeah okay okay hold on

I mean why stall anymore let's try this

go ahead

Hey

kill it kill it kill it stop waters not

ready okay now we're over on the

starboard engine and same thing cross

the fingers and hopefully it goes okay

I'm ready

starboard engine you ready um I guess

crank it over

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get no water on this one either kerlix

okay we were having a little bit of

problem water wasn't going through the

water pump every time I filled the sea

strainer to prime it I put the lid on it

would just drain right back out to the

lake that's because these things has

been sitting so long

there's air inside of here so what I did

on the other side and it worked perfect

is I built a water strainer and we kick

over the engine and I just keep dumping

in until we get enough water in the

system here that we don't have that

airlock and then once I get about two

gallons in there we kill the engine I

put the lid on the sea strainer then

we're good to go are you ready okay go

ahead and I'm on the port side start the

engine

and stop

what do you think

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let's go :

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