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Talk about cutting it fine and taking it to
the line. Literally to the last minute at 4 30.

Last time we had our biometric photos produced
for our residency application we had them done at

the place behind us but we've had it on good
authority that the place to go is Photo Ali

which is just around the corner so we're going
to give that one a try this time. It sounds like

a plan. Yeah of course um to go into a shop you
have to wear a mask. How's that going to work with

a biometric photo? Biometric photos with masks
on let's see how that works out. If you want to

find Photo Ali just come down the main street of
Kaş until you see the tomb at the intersection

here. There is the mosque at the bottom and the
further on you can go to the port, come around

this corner and right here you will find Photo
Ali very simple and the guy speaks great English

Okay so we are all biometric photo'ed up.

Yeah that was really easy too it was a nice easy process

Look how pretty I am. You're not going to show yours are you?

Yeah I'll show mine.

I didn't know if you could smile or not because I look like a witch if I don't
smile

because normally they don't like you smiling

Okay so next stop is to the insurance place and
we're going to get a quote see how much they're

going to give us for the Allianz insurance. Yeah
and how that compares to the quote that Umit at the marina

has got yep. As far as we know this is the only
insurance place in town of course Umit at the

marina has said that he has an agent that has
given him a quote but we'll we'll go in here

and see what they've got to say. I'd call that a
success. Yeah um took a little bit of time um even

though we... our details were mostly in the system
from our previous application there I think the

time consumed was changing from the AK Sigorta
which we used previously to the Allianz insurance

this time. Originally they quoted as 1428 Turkish
Lira per person for the 12 month health insurance

policy. Apparently that covered a big big network
doctors hospitals uh private clinics all across

Turkey but we said look you know really we're only
going to be up and down the coast mostly around

Kaş do you have something different and they said
well we have a smaller network policy which worked

out to a thousand Turkish Lira per person per policy. So we went with that. So when you look at that, that is a

33% saving on the original quote overall and
Allianz um covers any covid related treatment

that you may or may not need as well just for
anybody that's interested. So the step now is to

go back to the boat, tomorrow at three o'clock
in the afternoon we have a meeting with Umit

in the marina, he will make the online application
for our ikamet and once that is in the system

then that basically allows us to stay until uh
they process the whole thing, so even though

our three-month visa runs out on the 23rd
of October once we've got that application

in then that acts as a visa extension if you
like, at least on paper. Yes. So um fingers crossed

we should have it all done and dusted well before
the end of this month. Yeah it's been exciting. It is

It is 4.30 on Tuesday afternoon and we've just spent
the last hour and a bit with Umit in the Kaş

marina office and he's been bashing away at the
keyboard with some certain amounts of frustration

towards the end when the server wouldn't connect
properly but we now have our appointment for

heading down to Kemer to get uh to put in our
full paperwork for our residency application

so that is the... That's, well mine is on the 13th
of November which is a Friday yay Friday the thirteenth! And

Barry's is on the following Monday. So Umit said
he's got a friend down there and he can arrange

for my date to be moved in conjunction with
Aannsha's date but it can't be done now because it's

too ahead of time we've got to do that closer to
the date but basically it's all done - yeah - and the

paperwork is in which is a good thing because now
uh that means our 90-day visa is extended until

until they... until they say yep you've got your
visa or you've got your residency or no you're not

having one you better bugger off quick! One thing
we've got to do though we've got to go to the

local offices and pay. Oh the tax office yeah
yeah and we have to have a special code on our

phone that lets us in to government buildings
which we've got we've got that bit already so

yeah so still a bit more running around to do yeah
but basically the big stuff's done so that's good. Woohoo!

Down below is Kaş marina
and you might be thinking, woah

you've walked a long way to get so high up
for a view like that but you're wrong this

is a rent-a-car. Yay hay freedom but the real reason
that we've got the rent-a-car is not just about

freedom and exploring new places around Kaş
it's because we're going to Kemer. Yes it's

about a three hour drive uh to the east yeah and
the reason we're going to Kemer is because today

is the final step really in our application for
our 12-month Turkish residency card so we've got

to go to Kemer for the interview, they stamp
a lot of papers, ask us a couple of questions

and they say welcome to Turkey. At least
we know where we're going this time yeah

Okay let's go

We're driving along the D400 which is basically
the the major road that runs along the coast

or as close to the coast as it can get and you
know the roads are absolutely brilliant, super wide

there's passing lanes for both ways you know at a
good distance and super well maintained absolutely

brilliant driving in Turkey it's just so easy. You
do have to be aware that there are quite a few

checkpoints, police checkpoints and we just
went through one and they just waved us through

and they do look for people who have
not done their national army service

so that's one of the main things they're looking
for or probably vehicles that just look shabby or

people not wearing seat belts or masks or
masks um but we weren't wearing our masks

and we just got way through so yeah driving
in Turkey is it's a breeze really it's good

so yeah last time uh we were in A B Sea at
Kekova we actually went in and around

these sort of little clumps of islands that's
where Smuggler's Cove is so you go in at that end

and then you we came out of that gap there

and came across this harbour and as you can
see this is kind of um a flood plain here

so there's an awful lot of silt the washes down
here out into that area there so you can guess

that the anchorage holding would be fairly good
in this silty muddy sand in that area there so

So that's something else to look out for isn't
it when you're looking at when you're looking

for an anchorage yeah if you if you can
see a large flood plain like this um you

know that the holding is going to be really
good. Love this place. I know I keep saying it

Getting organized this morning we
skipped breakfast and it's now just after

midday so we've just passed
through this lagoon area here

and found this little restaurant right on
the edge of the lagoon and we're having lunch

I ordered most of it in Turkish, I was really chuffed
Yeah I just pointed at what I wanted on the menu

and they understood us both. So we get along in
Turkish. So you're having what, lamb chops

Lamb chops and salad. I'm having a chicken shish

So we're about halfway there now
I think? Yeah and we've got plenty of time. Loads of time.

Talk about cutting it fine and taking it to the line.

Literally to the last minute at 4 30.

Yeah so
we're here at Kemer now, we called into the office where you get your Turkish application for
residency processed

and luckily we went in an hour early and the guy nice guy real nice guy spoke
real good English, he said okay yeah I can process the paperwork now

my boss said it's okay to do
both now um but because it's not a renewal of your residency, old residency card

you need to pay uh a brand new -
one-time entry visa into Burkey, yeah

That was 695 Lira

each each and I'm thinking oh crap have I got
enough cash? Is there enough on the card? Because we

don't have internet access because our internet's
been blocked because we haven't got our residency

cards yet. Anyway 300 metres from this office to
the tax office I get there I give them 900 lira in

cash and presents the card and he goes no we don't
take cards we only process cash and he didn't

speak English and we didn't really speak Turkish
so google got a really good workout - translate

So he took the 900 and said you need to go
and get some cash from a bank but then we

looked at our watch it was 20 minutes past four
and they close at 4 30. Yeah like literally so

I left Aannsha there I said if they try and throw
you out you make sure you get that 900 lira back

so I had to run the 300 metres back luckily
there's a hole in the wall machine here at

the car park so I had the smart idea of just
jumping in the car and driving back and I

literally ran through the front door presented
the extra cash to the man - as it went ding! - just

just as he put
the sign up saying closed

in the meantime I'd had a google translate
conversation with him and he where he sort of

started flustered and I was kind of worried I said
look we're terribly sorry we didn't know and he

went it's okay don't worry I'll give you the money
back if it doesn't work so that was all right so

now we've come back to the uh residency office and
he's processed all of the paperwork and we've got

our paper temporary residency permits which means
we still can't get any telephone internet

and he said it could take up to two months for
the cards to be processed out of Antalya because

it slows down in the winter apparently it's been
processed we've been approved we have temporary uh

Turkish residency uh now we're just waiting
for 2021 and then we can go online real time

I'm now gonna drive three hours back to
Kaş and I'm gonna have a large beer. Did

you save enough money to buy um petrol if
we ... I've got some cash spare if we need to

put petrol in the car because we both completely
entered our wallets we got in there that's good

all right let's go friendship let's
go back to Kaş and have a beer right

there's a saying in the boating community
everybody wants to be captain until it's

time to do captain [ s#$t ] it's four o'clock in the
morning we've got a bit of a blow coming through

a bit of lightning out on the horizon so I'm up
closing all the hatches bringing stuff in out of

the cockpit that's going to blow away potentially
because right now we're getting gusts of up to 25

knots and looking at the lightning and the clouds
I can see on the horizon this could be quite a

big blow coming through. Now Kev's moved on to the
other side we're taking the exhaust manifold off

but that also includes taking off the heat
exchanger which is kind of a good thing because

I've wanted to open up the heat exchanger for
some time and check inside for bits of impeller

and also make sure it's not blocked up and
if it is give it a clean out. So here are the

engine exhaust ports from the four cylinders and
apart from just a little bit of carbon which you'd

expect it's looking actually quite good. Kev seems
to be quite pleased with it. So now we've got the

exhaust manifold off the water pump's got to come
off which is basically this lot here we're going

to try and keep it as intact as possible
and just disengage it from the head or the

block and drop it drop it forward and then that
should give us full access to the cylinder head

So this is the the rocker cover and so we're
just persuading it with a gentle persuasion

to part company

It is a very interesting moment of truth
so you reckon that's clean as a whistle?

Nothing wrong with that. Okay so this has got to
come off to access the the head, the cylinder

head. The rocker assembly yeah these bolts
here right comes off first that takes you

rocker assembly - as a whole unit - yeah right leaves
your valves intact on the head - okay Then what we

do is take the head bolts off okay? All right
Take those head bolts off then you'll have to

tap this until it prises away from the head gasket
and that should all lift off. Right are these bolts

torqued? They will be yeah. Okay so when we
put them back they have to be a specific torque?

Yep. I tell you I'm glad you're here Kev um our
viewers who suggested strongly that we you know

carry out this this kind of work all seem to
be under the false illusion that I was capable

of doing this and to be honest with you watching
you do it you're making it look very very easy and

to me it's quite daunting so I think it's
beyond my pay grade. No it's not. You just

need to put that in the box now. The the
tappet assembly bolts - right - the rocker arm bolts

marked so aft forward starboard port? Yep and there's two on each pedestal

Right all right so that's a great little
idea to make sure you get the right bolts

back into the right hole. Oh what what that
what is that? That's your push ... that's a push rod. Okay

A push rod. Oh I see that thing that we took off
does does that? Yeah the load cam at the bottom

of the engine - right - pushes it up and then puts the
pushes the rocker and opens and closes your valves

you've got one each cylinder one for inlet one
for exhaust. Inlet exhaust. So that opens, that shuts

that shuts, that opens. Wow. And it's the way
your cam is um got different lobes on it

determines whether that opens
or that closes or whatever. Okay

Kev is now removing the cylinder head bolts
is that right? Yep and he's got this dirty

great big pry bar to get leverage on them
because they were fairly fairly tight. I

wouldn't have probably been brave enough to do that
I would have called in the experts at this point

So are you going to need another one of
those marked pieces of paper for these bolts?

Yes. Right I'll get that sorted out. Kev's like the
surgeon in theare and I'm the attendant nurse

Well this wonderful little collection is all
of the header bolts and we've put them in the

positions that they go back onto the engine. We
will have of course to get the service manual

and find out which sequence they get tightened
down in and exactly what the torque settings are

because we will be tightening these
back down with a torque wrench. Now

to take the cylinder head off and the big reveal
Now we've got the water pump separated from the

front end of the cylinder head Kev's just using
this pry bar to break the seal on the cylinder

head gasket which probably hasn't been removed
in the lifetime of the boat and there it goes

Ooh is that normal? That's
just mixture, that's carbon

I mean I have no idea what they should look
like. Oh no they'll look like that don't worry

Okay what we'll do, we can turn the engine over
and get those right up flush to the top but what

you can do in the meantime is if you feel inside
there you'll feel a little bit of carbon around

the top of the bores - right - well that's nothing to
worry about because the bores are not scratched

okay - they're fine. What we'll do, get some uh get
some kitchen roll - yeah - clean as much [ s@#t] off

there as you can and I can see what I'm looking
at okay but from feel there's nothing wrong with

the bore. This here it's just carbon - right -
so you get carbon on all engines - okay - some

worse than others and probably. And the coolant
in there is just because we've taken the head

off and it's just run in. Yeah that's just come
from these little holes here - okay - there's no coolant inside the head gasket

but the rest of it - looks fine - all that's good. Yeah
I mean it's just carbon buildup if you push the

pistons right up to the top we can clean all
that off. Okay well let's do what we can now. So

we've got to this stage Kev yeah and we haven't
seen any signs of any metal fragments at all that

you've got no car... you've got no metal scratchings
on the bores - okay - you've got a little bit of

carbon build up on the top but - yeah - you will have
that. Okay. All right well that's a huge relief

um you know and and yeah we've got to get
this gasket replaced. One gasket. One gasket

and weve got to find out whether
that's a 13... 1.3 mil or 1.5 mil

so we're now looking at the underside of the head

and basically the top part of the cylinders
really isn't it? I can't see any massive damage there at all

Injectors could do with a good clean but there's no sign of any damage to the valves

Fine just needs a good clean - a good
clean. Well this is good news well *laughs*

clean up time. It's a huge relief um Kev's
done a marvellous job here today couldn't

have done it without him and completely
relieved that we found no metal fragments

at all in any of the places where people had asked
us to look and expect them so that's great news

and as I called Aydin to the boat to just confirm
exactly what gaskets we needed ordering he said to

me uh look you know I can take all this these
parts back to the workshop and have them all

properly pressure cleaned so they're absolutely
pristine and I'll also uh take apart your um

the valves - I'm very tired soI'm losing my words
now - uh so he's going to take the valves apart and

clean those all up because there's quite a bit
of carbon inside there as we would expect from

not having the turbo attached for a little while.
So a day of cleaning the engine that's now been

more exposed to me for cleaning tomorrow and then
Aydin will get those parts cleaned and back to me

day after tomorrow. We should have the
turbo rebuilt from the guy in Istanbul

by probably Wednesday of next week so a week
away and they'll also have the gaskets by then

so Kev and I are quite confident by Friday of
next week which is uh um seven, eight, nine, nine

days away um we'll have the engine back together
and we'll be able to run it and it'll be pristine

I've got my backpack on. I'm going to buy a beer now