About a week ago. Was too lazy to post..
Ran the boat to Kirkland planned to stay the night there, grab a few drinks and stay on the dock. It’s super quiet in the winter at the marina. And it was, we ended up on the main slip with only 2 other boats in the entire marina.
Anyhoo.
On the way over to kirkland decided to let her run wide open for a bit. Just to clean her out. Think that may have put some pressure on the injectors. Would have happened anyway but the extra pressure must have pushed her over the edge. So…
Get to the dock and can smell oil turns out it was burning diesel. Went down to the engine room and there was a little smoke. Not much and not sure where it was coming from. Under the port engine there was diesel everywhere.
Ran the engine while looking for the spray thought it would be obvious as I even had red diesel on the ceiling above the engine. But took a while to find it. Diesel was gushing out of the injector pump where the fuel lines enter it.
Waited for the engine to cool then lay down on top of the engine to get to the injectors and one nut that tightens them up was finger loose. Hoping it was just that. Headed to the boating forum for advice and discovered I needed a flare nut wrench. So would be next day before I could get one.
Ran home to the marina the next day on one engine. Never tried that and obviously the boat wants to prop steer to port all the time but found it remarkably easy to maneuver. Thrusters help 🙂
So off for tools and got a set of wrenches and a ratchet version as I knew it was going to be a bitch to get too. It was. Here are the ones I bought, $11 from harbor freight. Bargain.
I had to do some serious yoga to get port side of the port side engine but was able to, just, and that ratchet wrench worked a treat. Tightened her up. Cleaned up all the diesel from every little nook and cranny and then yoga’d back out. Started her up and ta da , all done.
Happy with myself. I am no master mechanic and I feel like anything I touch I make worse so pretty rewarding when something breaks and you fix it yourself.
Outside of the starter motor snafu. This is the only issue I have had with supernova since we got her in July. Not complaining.
