Steadfast has a Russell Newbery single cylinder engine, a 'thumper'. It runs well, shifts the boat comfortably through the water and sounds good. We haven't specified it, or sourced it, it just came with the boat so we claim no credit for the choice of this engine. As we are about to go out for a month we thought to get the slight oil leak at the top (head) of the beastie sorted. Joe was going to simply change the head gasket but as that would have involved buying a set of new tools we opted to use an expert.
Expert duly turned up on Monday and removed head. Too much oil pressure in the top of the engine so solutions were discussed... Next day expert, Richard Milligan, returned and removed piston and block. The engine is having a rebuild and modification and will be away for a couple of weeks so the four weeks cruise is now on hold.
We took Richards mooring when he sold his boat. He left a lot of stuff on the mooring and declined £££’s for it. Percy had a head gasket that needed changing so I asked him to do it. Top fella, he was happy for me to watch him work and ask all the daft questions. Would highly recommend him we were very pleased with how he worked and the price he charged. Hope it works out for you....he seems to be the RN got to man.
ReplyDeleteNev within minutes of Richard arriving we knew he was the right man.
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