- Kubota Diesel Nightmare Pt.3 -
PSA: If you have just discovered our channel, this episode may be a bit confusing, as our engine troubles began in Ep. 12, where we discovered a rattling noise coming from our engine.

Saving the best for last, this episode is jam-packed with excitement including sailing, Sonya's 25th birthday at anchor & we almost burn down our boat while wrestling with even more engine issues. This episode is features fun sailing & lounging in our favorite anchorage, while also continuing with engine projects that just don't seem to leave us alone! It's a bit more project/technical than our previous videos so if you enjoy this format leave us a comment below!

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Closed Captions (CC):
in our last episode we finished five

months of grueling engine work and

finally get to leave the slip again

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yeah

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goodbye marina

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we're back we headed out the marina

channel and pointed our bow towards our

favorite Anchorage on the bay

clipper Cove right before we untied our

dock lines to head out for a couple days

our neighbor surprised us with a freshly

caught salmon what a treat

celebratory dinner on SB Gemini tonight

our next couple of days were full of

lounging drinking mimosas and

celebrating that we were back out on the

water that wasn't all we were

celebrating

we were also gearing up for a

spectacular 25th birthday week I also

finally got to try out my new birthday

gift from Jack at our stand-up

paddleboard capture the world's most

mesmerizing pictures at the boot

just so happens that my birthday falls

on the 4th of July so he had plans for a

big raft up and party with friends and

family it was such a blast we forgot to

get the video camera

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so happy to be back in Cooper Cove it

feels so great to be back out on the

hook our engine is running great so far

so we're feeling really good about

everything check out this view

pretty awesome Jax hosting mine I keep

see saying hosting me her Jax raising

the anchor and we're gonna head home to

pick up our friends and go sailing we

had a couple of days of spectacular

sailing on the bay little did we know

what was yet to come we think our heat

exchanger is cracked and leaking fluids

into our dry exhaust system how about

life we're trying to be really positive

about it but if it's not if it's not one

thing it's always another cuz we finally

felt like our boat was put back together

and running and we got to enjoy her for

about a week or two yeah about 12 engine

hours and now we've got another

potentially very serious issue once we

once we parked our boat smelled some

silliness down in the galley and we open

up our engine compartment and our

exhaust elbow has cracked and broken

into two complete pieces exhaust but it

was also spewing out water which

shouldn't be happening this is a raw

water to the heat exchanger element and

this is raw water that comes up here and

goes into the exhaust I think we have

an exhaust leak in this manifold

somewhere

once again our engine was torn apart and

we took the heat exchanger to get

checked out at a shop you know then

where these are if it's anywhere around

there you got to get around to doing

there I had to modify our exhaust riser

because it cracked and I'm pretty sure

cracked because of the rigidity in the

whole system it was - didn't have enough

flexibility this muffler interlock was

too strapped down it's also really heavy

and you know just hard to brace so this

is what we have we took out all of this

extra pipe after the water injection cut

down the whole assembly a lot of

potential play and then have some nice

flexibility from here to say therefore

the hose we have a tab here to put our

bracing on that I'll try to go as low as

close to 90 as I can to the motor when

you want to brace these things you want

it to be attached to the engine not to

the bulkhead or anything like that

because the motor has a lot of port to

starboard vibration is running and then

this whole rise wants to be 12 inches

above the waterline which is hard to do

with our boat we made a sturdy brace

system with some flat bar and put it all

back together to hopefully fire up the

engine once again and then this happened

Chris we went to start the engine up

after working on it for a while and

there was a wire for the engine counter

that counts the hours used on the engine

and those two wires were touching by

accident and they arced out and actually

like what was that like we could

see this crazy orange streak through

through the engine

just more work for us to do

yeah sounds like a perfect job for

mullet Larry yes the rumors are true

Jack rocked a mullet for a couple of

days during this project

Larry how do you feel right now Larry

project taking way too long since

January we just can't catch a break

nothing never works it's always

something else but the exhaust riders

braced like heck so fix that problem fix

that one no it's on to the other one

that it's created it's okay I'm gonna

sit down do some editing and eat some

food get a buzz on start over tomorrow

back at it in the morning

replacing all of our engine wiring

harness that we just replaced so you can

see how lucky we got take my light off

see that

after rewiring everything that had burnt

up

we still had terrible smoke it had to be

the fuel injectors diesels were really

specific to their fuel dammit I hope

this is the last part but let me pull

these injectors out and I'll show you

how they look and then I'll take them to

the shop and maybe we can see a

difference I don't know they're gonna

spray test them so they can see like if

it's a decent burn meanwhile we decided

to open up our fuel tanks and take a

look inside we found nasty sludgy grimy

goop in the bottom of our port fuel tank

ooh that's nice what kind of the bottom

of the tank with clean fuel tanks and

replaced injectors stinky Pete was

finally running like a dream well that's

the end of that major project on to the

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