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It’s Aliiive!

7 August 2011

Yep, the trusty Perkins diesel started right up. Right after a week of running around looking for plumbing parts and electrical parts and more plumbing parts to hook it all up to the boat and to attach all of it’s various pieces together. Then a weekend of cleaning fuel and treating fuel to no avail […]

Why do I feel like celebrating the fact that my box traveled nowhere in two weeks?

27 June 2011

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When we bought our “new” Perkins 4.108 engine, we knew up front that the fuel injection pump was leaking and needed to be rebuilt–that’s why we got a such a good price on the engine. The previous owner had been quoted $1000.00 to have it rebuilt by a marine outfit in the San Francisco Bay […]