Will she ever run again??? I've been unable to run it lately because of a starter problem. Also in this episode, replacing the sea-strainer from my raw water...

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all right well I've got to to dues on my

to-do list today the first one is going

to be replacing the ICI strainer for the

raw water pump and reason that I need to

do this today is because it is not

working and it is hot it is the middle

of July we cannot live like this so that

could be done and the second thing which

I'm probably going to put in a separate

video and use to change out the starter

motor engine this bad boy is pretty

expensive but one online boat

so I can't really start the food

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so because of the awkward positioning of

all this

to unmount everything I have to take off

the electric water motor pump the raw

water basically take that off and take

off the hose over there and then the

entire thing can come off and I'll have

to change out the strainer up here on

deck and then we will be able to get air

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all right I really don't recommend doing

what I'm about to do but I want to check

that this motor is actually working so

I'm going to

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cool well it is running part of the

problem I'm having those that it's

getting incredibly hot and there's not

really a way to check if the cooling

system is free this is a water-cooled

motor it takes a little bit of the

output water and pushes it through the

actual engine compartment there while I

have the motor cooling off I want to

take a look at the hardware here this is

the old sea strainer it is caked in

black crud a new one looks a lot better

one cool difference is that croco looks

like at some point went from these brass

weights to plastic blades plastic ones

are probably a lot cheaper to

manufacture and replace which is good

this one was actually leaking a little

bit so I would have needed to replace

this anyway

but now I will magically put new brass

fittings on here and replace that we'll

go from there

I've got a teflon tape here to put on

the threads of this brass bit it is

important that you go with the thread on

this so the threads are actually going

that way

which means that I need to wrap it that

direction the reason you do that is

otherwise it's gonna kind of back itself

off as you go long and I just did that

wrong so let me correct it before I go

any further here

started

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perfect

so I'm going to put this one in the

outlet

and grab a pipe wrench put a pipe wrench

on it probably work so once more good

orient myself sign with the threads

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perfect

how do the other side okay I got to put

back together for now sorta

I left the outlets and unhooked because

next I'm going to open up the

through-hole and flush water through it

to make sure that the air kind of gets

pushed out then I'll come back up and

reattach the hose right there and

hopefully everything will hold there it

goes I've got water it's pretty touch

that real quick cool I'll throw some

clamps on it and we'll try running it

and see what happens

go outside and check what the flow was

like okay well now that the strainer is

straining let it run for a few hours and

see if that fixes the issue of the motor

overheating if not then what we'll have

to do is replace the entire motor which

those are about four hundred dollars I

really don't want to have to do that

well if you never seen the inside of one

of these before

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yep that'd do it

that looks like it is packed full of

grass clippings and there are a lot of

alive things as well so I probably

didn't actually need to fully replace it

but I'm glad I am because it looks like

yeah I wasn't going to touch that and

I'd rather spend the almost $200 on

replacement but hopefully that won't

happen again

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you gotta be kidding me

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so that means I just spent $140 on the

new starter for nothing

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so I want to tell you show you how to

replace the starter on that run I guess

it's working so we're good

since I'm not actually gonna pull this

out I can just show you where it is the

starter on a diesel engine it's a little

bit bigger and different than the

starter you'd find under car that is

because the diesel engine basically

starts by spinning up and can't start it

with a nice little spark plugs but mine

is right here this is the one that I

installed last year actually the second

time I've done it the problem with these

guys is that because my engine is sold

she's a 1975 engine so they don't make

the parts for it anymore this is a

retrofit kind of part and the one that I

bought is basically an even newer model

of that one my dad was probably one of

the easier parts to take on and off of

the engine it has a three little

mounting bolts and then I have to unplug

it and pull it out a new one in

but yeah that is where that is so maybe

in the future I'll show myself actually

replacing it but not today

since I'm not actually gonna be

installing this one I might as well show

you how it works

basic mechanism we've got going on here

is a solenoid which will connect the

circuit it's not actually doing anything

mechanically it's more there to complete

the circuit and provide the pathway 770

apps that this thing is gonna pull to us

meant up so the positive end goes here

the negative end somewhere on the motor

when those two connect to you start

spinning the motor itself right here

will turn this little ping in here in

this pinion gear when it starts to turn

will shoot out and and inside the engine

there's a flywheel with the same gear

pattern on it that will engage and start

spinning the engine up but now that I

have it and I think I'll just keep it

round parts it doesn't have a good

solenoid on it and you know that if

anything is gonna burn out first it's

gonna be that solenoid so

it's good to have spares one other thing

if you're trying to shop around for your

replacement there's tons of resources

online you just kind of look up the the

view sheets and find something that is

similar to what you're trying to replace

the the most important part the starter

is going to be heating gear and the

network and horsepower that this thing

could put out if you can get those

pretty close especially the gear then

you should be blind also the bolt

pattern that this bolts on to the engine

is also important so you'll want to make

sure that is correct or at least

adjustable in some regard yeah most

marine engines have good resources

though so take the time to find

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