On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, after sailing into Mazatlán Teal discovers an issue with our Port Engine which called for some mechanical reinforcements in the name of Patrick. Together, they diagnose the situation and form a plan to get our engine fixed and back together. Come back next week to see if that actually happens. See you then!

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00:02
[Music]
00:30
previously on onboard lifestyle we left
00:33
cabo san lucas heading towards la paz
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and had a great passage to our first
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stop los fraley's
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the crew's plans change weather dictates
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everything everything as we decide to
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cross the sea cortez and head to
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mazatlan instead
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the 165 nautical mile jump was smooth
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sailing for basic
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not so much for the squid
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you startled the squid they jumped
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straight up and blopped all over the
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deck we had an escort as we approached
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mazatlan's old harbor and we've settled
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in to a peaceful evening at anchor well
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it's another change of plans lansis and
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marina mazelon
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where we will be picking up our story
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[Music]
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do
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[Music]
01:45
well
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we got some this sucks this sucks
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uh we
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knew that we had a little
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difference in vibration and sound in our
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our port engine
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and we were hoping that it just needs a
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little tlc i dove in there this morning
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and
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it's gonna do oil changes and just kind
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of check things out
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and what i found
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discouraging
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we don't know yet we don't know yet so
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what we're gonna do is uh go get an
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opinion there's a a couple of diesel
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mechanics right here in there and they
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specialize in myanmar engines so that is
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uh we're in the best place possible
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right now to have something like this
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happen so we're just gonna go
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uh
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get some outside uh help and
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and uh see if we could diagnose the
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problem yeah this is the first for teal
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asking for
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professional help okay i have no problem
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with it
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a diesel mechanic is not my uh
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wheel house but i'm getting there
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but this is a little beyond that i'm
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trying to be positive throw out some
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positive vibes out there yes and that it
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is a uh easy fix yeah maybe it's a loose
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bolt or something well you know maybe a
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little bit more but
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um i'm
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praying against
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all else that it's not something super
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serious i don't think that it should be
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i know because we want to just keep
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moving we don't want to be stranded here
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waiting for parts
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but we'll see we'll uh we'll know a lot
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more here in a few minutes so fingers
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crossed well in a few hours
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okay this happens every time
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we hit a marina
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it's been over a month so lynn
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first thing
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just starts
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washing the boat
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getting the salt off
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i don't know where she's at right now
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[Music]
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but i'm not going out there
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this is her thing
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i know better
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i'll stay inside camp out here
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get some work done
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but let her
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just
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polish the boat
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this is her obsession
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her routine
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it makes her happy
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emma's so good
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she's out trying to help
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not me
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i'm still hiding
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where is
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she on the sugar scoop but i think
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scrubbing those up
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i don't want her to see me
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oh there she is
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okay i'm out here
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so
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emma and i have been cleaning the boat
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which makes me so happy but this was the
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first for me
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i'm cleaning and i step on a beam
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so i got a little bee sting
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on the bottom of my foot and we're only
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halfway done so i'm going to muscle
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through
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and emma's going to be my uh my laborer
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today
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so get to work start swabbing the decks
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it's been
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over a month
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since we washed the boat i mean truly
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washed it
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and cabo
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was so dirty it was beautiful but it was
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so dirty the air just had lots of smog
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and
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i don't know everything else and it just
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left a layer of
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dust dust and dirt and
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i don't know what else
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uh-oh
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she's on the other sugar scoop now
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she's got the soft scrub out and a rag
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that's where we've been landing all the
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fish
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trying to get all the danes out of there
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man
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she's on a mission
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so
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so it's my birthday today
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and uh
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we have a little change of plans because
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uh you know that's what happens with
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votes teal is down below right now happy
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birthday
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and uh
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yeah we got a little unexpected little
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hiccup
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i suppose i better explain what's going
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on
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well on our crossing the other day
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when we were going from fraley's to
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mazelon
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you know we had a nice sail all night
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long
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but the winds died off in the morning so
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we kicked on
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uh
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this engine this is the port engine
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and it just sounded a little off
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something was just uh had a little funky
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vibration so we played with the
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rpms and if i brought the rpms down it
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sounded fine but it just didn't sound
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right
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so i came down here
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and
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just was doing a visual inspection on
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the engine while we were underway and it
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just felt like when we were going over a
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swell
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and putting the prop under a load
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that it would just i don't know it just
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had this oscillating sound to it
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and
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i peered over the top of the engine and
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i could see that the sail drive and the
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engine were not in unison they were
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they're supposed to be bolted tight
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together and they were moving slightly
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i mean maybe a whole eighth inch quarter
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inch
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separately that's never a good thing so
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we shut the engine down and just limped
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limped in
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no clue what
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is going on
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but it is definitely uh somewhere where
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the the the two with the sd20 is mounted
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to the 3ym 30.
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so
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we called in
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uh some reinforcements yes a local
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myanmar mechanic he came out yesterday
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and
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he thinks that
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we can
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most likely remedy this problem
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fairly easily
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but we do need to have access
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to the front side of the sail drive in
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order to do that i have to remove the
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engine
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he's going to be here tomorrow morning
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bright and early but he gave me a list
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of things to do remove the engine build
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some blocking so we could slide the
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engine forward remove the wet exhaust
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kind of clear things out so we can
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get some movement on the engine the
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engine only weighs like i think it's 280
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pounds so it's not a big deal to move
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this it's just a lot of prep work
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our fingers are crossed that this is a
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simple fix if it's
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what he thinks it is
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uh we maybe have this all put back
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together in half a day and we're on our
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way
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if it's something else uh which there's
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a few things that can happen it may be
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anywhere from
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two weeks to three weeks to get parts in
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here
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so
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i'm wonderful we're hopeful we're
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hopeful we're a little bit uh i don't
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know i feel at ease
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after talking to him that it it could be
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a simple fix so our
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our hopes are high
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in the meantime i'll prep and we'll uh
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hit this thing first thing tomorrow
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morning when it gets here
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and we'll know a lot more
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so remove the motor mounts first
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where are you right here
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it's always the last one is the hardest
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i really want to clean our engine
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i know
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tell me how you really feel about this
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oh my goodness
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it's a tough one the other ones came out
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pretty smoothly it's just the location
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that's the hard part you want me to do
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it
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no because it's
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there it goes
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okay
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motor mounts
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are free here you can take that
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and only just a little bit of blood
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my bleeding a little bit
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well what's new
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so now the other question is is can you
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get out of there
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yeah but now i need to undo the uh wet
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exhaust here so can you hand me
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um i got a
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ratchet set a metric ratchet set right
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up here okay
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okay wedding sauce is off we're getting
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there next
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i have to build a platform now to slide
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the engine forward
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i think you got enough i think so little
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scraps and bits and pieces
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okay so i need to take a little off
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right there
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[Music]
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i've been prepping this engine getting
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ready for the mechanic
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patrick should be here maybe about half
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an hour i think i'm set let's take a
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look what i had to do
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first thing i did was remove the cowling
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put it up out of the way
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[Music]
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the engine mounts
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are totally loose now
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and i built these skids so we could
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slide the engine this way we need to get
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about six inches this could be real
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close right here but
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hopefully it's enough
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i put a support for the back of the
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engine so it can't fall down
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and then i removed
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the exhaust
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i think the rest of the hoses here are
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going to be loose enough that we could
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slide it without removing them if i have
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to remove one i will but i'm going to
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try to avoid it
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so here's the problem
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here's our sail drive here's our engine
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there's a plate
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that adapts the engine to
13:32
the sail drive and right in here
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this is where i'm getting the movement
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this piece is moving independent from
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here so
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this is mounted from the inside of this
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adapter plate
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so we need to remove this plate
13:45
and look at what's happening i don't
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know if a bolt is sheared off or if
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they've loosened up
13:51
but
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that's what we're in for today
13:54
you can see some oil is dripped out not
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much just a couple tablespoons
13:59
but obviously something's wrong here
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are you are you comfortable yeah
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okay
14:16
these bottom two
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what i'm thinking is that we might not
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be able to get the nut completely off
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without moving this forward a little bit
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i've always been in two minds about the
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risk benefit to this hour drive so
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packing glands
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then here's the stud here's the last one
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okay
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okay so there is about five mil or so on
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all of those
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seen any movement there not yet
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oh have we reached the end of any thread
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yeah yeah i just backed them off a
15:05
little more okay very good
15:14
okay
15:16
but yeah we're up against them now so do
15:18
i back them off more
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let's just have a little lucky here
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so what we don't want as we come off
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these screws
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is for this weight to be transferred
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onto the shaft right and start stripping
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so i want to put a little pressure on
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this yeah there's going to be some
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movement but yeah if you slide that back
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a little bit
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you seem to slide much happier that time
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yeah i'm happy with how the weight
15:42
yeah everything seems like it's coming
15:44
out even here yeah
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yep there's zero pressure on any one of
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these
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here's your wrench very good
15:57
okay let me double check
15:59
clear on the bottom
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clear clear clear
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clear
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there's our first look at it
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that
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does not look good does it
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wow
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it's only there to hold the lip seal in
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place
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yeah because it's not a real heavy gauge
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no
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um
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no
16:27
look at that
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oh my god
16:32
so i'm guessing you know it got loose
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somehow and then wobbled its way out but
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that shearing that's when it got back so
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far that it caught right probably on the
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flywheel and then as that
16:42
yanked it out it's amazing to me that we
16:44
didn't hear any big grinding noises or
16:46
anything to me too and indeed that it
16:48
ran and yeah can you see with all them
16:50
bits jangling about like even you know
16:51
we limped in here but then we use both
16:53
engines to get into the slip here and at
16:55
low rpms it feels perfectly fine
16:58
but obviously there's an issue
17:02
look how far those have all backed off
17:03
how did all those back off
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right because it's structural right
17:08
right and that's the part that's holding
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the units together exactly the drive
17:13
unit which is driving the engine but it
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it
17:15
once it's together it's homogenous right
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so through the three feet we're moving
17:18
the boat forward right um
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that said
17:22
an awful lot of the transfer is is is
17:25
going between
17:28
th this guide stops it moving in any
17:30
direction lateral right or anything like
17:32
that right so when the surfaces meet
17:34
and then this face
17:36
you know is is is against this so it's
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not like there's actual torque or
17:40
pressure on these bolts being right
17:41
that's why they came out so easy right
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exactly yeah so so yeah i don't think
17:47
there's any sort of structure at all
17:48
going forward if we if we get this in
17:50
with a bit of thread lock and talk
17:51
enough right then you can rest easy you
17:54
know it's great it's not going to go
17:55
anywhere there's other engineering at
17:57
work to keep you right i understand
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but it's just a matter now of getting
18:02
the new plate and while we're at it
18:04
might as well get the correct bolts
18:05
correct yeah
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okay um
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i'm gonna wash out and go over and get
18:10
on the phone yeah okay cool
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you know
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i feel a little
18:17
i guess bittersweet
18:19
it's sweet because we know exactly what
18:21
the prop is now we know why the engine
18:24
was moving separate from the cell drive
18:26
the bolts were missing but why
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why are they
18:30
missing how did they all back out
18:32
there's eight of them total and all
18:35
eight had come loose did this happen
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15 years ago when the engine was being
18:40
put in and they didn't torque it down
18:42
correctly were they just in their finger
18:44
tight did somebody forget some
18:47
process or step to installing the engine
18:49
i mean we'll never know
18:52
everybody's stumped that we've talked to
18:54
of why
18:55
these came apart
18:58
but
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we push forward and
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get it fixed
19:03
is this isolated to this engine is it
19:04
going to happen to the other i sincerely
19:07
doubt it this is such an anomaly that
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i think once this is fixed we'll be uh
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good
19:13
luckily we can fix this in the water
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it's just a matter of getting new bolts
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and getting that new plate
19:20
those uh patrick has tracked those down
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and those are on order we should have
19:25
those in less than a week here in
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mazatlan so things are looking good for
19:29
us getting this all put back together
19:32
in the meantime
19:34
we're going to clean up
19:35
the back side of this get all the oil
19:37
out and all the little bits and pieces
19:39
and shavings
19:41
uh
19:41
lentil stuff yourself back in here and
19:44
do that
19:45
okay how's it look back there
19:47
not bad
19:48
just a little bit of oil
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just a little bit i'd say probably like
19:53
not even a tablespoon
19:56
but it's nice to just get in and clean
19:58
it all up
20:01
now that that's all polished up and
20:04
ready for the next stage we could relax
20:06
a bit besides it's still lynn's birthday
20:09
we have to go out and celebrate
20:16
i wish they were bigger
20:17
is that seasoning
20:24
and it looks like we will have a few
20:26
days to explore this city and have a bit
20:30
of fun before we get back onto this
20:32
engine
20:32
i'm not a diesel mechanic but i feel
20:34
comfortable that if this were to happen
20:37
again
20:38
i could tackle this project by myself no
20:40
problem
20:41
and i think that's a big part of what
20:43
cruising is
20:45
is
20:46
you know figuring out things and it's
20:48
probably a good thing that this happened
20:50
because
20:51
you know
20:52
everything on this boat i feel 100
20:54
confident and comfortable with
20:56
the diesel engines is definitely my weak
20:59
point but after this
21:01
i feel like if this were to happen again
21:03
i could certainly handle this by myself
21:05
and that makes me feel
21:07
actually
21:08
pretty good so until next week when we
21:10
get that part in
21:12
we're gonna go have a little bit of fun
21:13
in mazelon
21:21
this sucks this sucks
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[Music]
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[Music]
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let's get loose fast
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don't start the engine