Part 2 of the diesel nightmare is finally up! In our last video, we discovered a terrible knocking sound from our engine & begin to investigate the culprit.

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previously on to the horizon sailing we

hear a terrible noise coming from our

engine and discover a bolt rattled loose

in our transmission housing waiting on

parts we decide to do a complete engine

makeover

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with a long list of projects the first

task at hand was cleaning absolutely

every surface we could reach taking

advantage of the open engine bay it was

a grimy task but it had to be done oh my

goodness a glow-in-the-dark star came

out of the bilge pump I don't have your

dykes in here honey the normal site here

that's our bilge hose the murders he

like manual bills hose it's in the

cockpit like you'll use it you only use

that if is hitting the fan

literally the screen is all messed up

there's gonna get some new screen put

this heavy bronze piece because it sinks

down so you don't need a tie down and

then pop it on in the bilge so that a

lot of work to do but

today we're going to move these very

quarters over to this side south side of

the boat and the Venus muffler to the

port side of the boat it doesn't make

sense other wrapping this whole stuff

around we've got people though this is

going to a hide area so we're going to

consolidate everything onto the

starboard side of the boat that has a

deal with fuel electricity

oh my kind of huh okay here we go so you

said you wanted the the interior cleared

out so you could paint and whatnot so

the water fans out of their date tank

filters out of their transmission all of

our fuel hose and wet exhaust engine

battery compartment so now there's a

full wide open bilge just start cleaning

and repainting that's exactly what we

did next

we started by painting the rust spots we

found on our aqua Drive running gear as

well as the engine and engine mounts but

wait that's not all we did while our

cabinet was taken apart we also replaced

fuel lines exhaust hoses and bilge hoses

cleaned and serviced the heat exchanger

rebuilt the starter motor and rear an

all-new electrical wiring and installed

a new inverter charger looking back it's

amazing to see how much work we really

did in those five months this is the

tool room don'tdon't dog there's our

transmission a bunch of engine parts all

of the tools there's our alternator all

of the tools

how are you doing over there

working out some stretching you know

almost stuff

the last cup

well if it's one thing that boat life

has taught us is work smarter not work

can work can work again how are you

feeling so far about this whole engine

project it's fine they're coming back

together finally I'm just trying to

choose which parts of the boat I want to

tear up to complete the 20 minute job

that's the point we're at now it's like

all these little bits that need to be

finalized but we what time is it we

should have we should have stuff get in

the mail soon seems like the time

something here tracking ups

Alfred delivery I want my freakin part

man

what do you have there oh man one of two

the most critical parts that we'll be

waiting on ok let's check these sons of

guns out I'm pretty sure it's not gonna

be primed and painted very lumen them

here no idea well what do you think

are you excited hold on

where did this dog come from sadly

Perseus Ralph is not our dog we were dog

sitting for Jack's sister so he was

moral support during this whole engine

project okay wow this is what broke off

and was causing all of our terrible

damage that made us start this whole

project this is what it should have

looked like so that is why you torque

stuff to spec and put Loctite when you

need to mm-hmm

Wow the pooch we're about to connect the

adapter plate to the transmission engine

housing and we're going to do correctly

with the torque wrench Loctite new bolts

we're going to tape off the bare

aluminum sections and then paint the

rest of it with primer and then two

coats of Kubota blue it's just but crazy

that we accomplished what we have

accomplished and that that we can

completely take our engine apart and

figure out exactly what's wrong with it

and fix it just nuts and bolts honey

just nuts and bolts are you ready I was

born ready the time had finally come we

were ready to start putting the engine

back together after five long months of

work she's back where she should be

yoo-hoo man okay let's put the restless

bolts in nice and tight yeah so nice

baby girl

whoo one step closer to sailing yes

hell yeah nice to see we slowly put

stinky Pete back together piece by piece

then our last task was to design a new

exhaust riser to prevent water from back

flowing into our engine we had our

friends at Spence ins metal works

fabricate a new one for us this was the

last piece of the engine puzzle with the

exhaust riser installed we were ready to

start the engine we are about to start

at the engine for the first time in

about four or five months and we're

super excited but also very nervous who

knows if everything we've done for the

last five months is even right we'll see

you ready I want to take these

floorboards out cuz I have to open up

the saltwater

fuel this is crazy

and ever think we would you did it I

mean it's you know take it apart

everything and then do it I'm so nervous

tell your salons everybody so we just

tried to start the engine and you don't

have the ignition warning going off I've

been battling this thing where my fuel

shutoff solenoid won't energize and push

in the piston that pushes this

decompression lever that's what she'll

see it's the only thing that's just the

engine off and number gauge has worked

our coolant temp just kept on creeping

all the way up high but we know for a

fact it's not hot and then I'm starting

to run through all my wiring stuff like

we tested this who tested resistance to

this connector vice versa I checked

everything back in the cockpit all good

stuff except the ground so I came up

here and there was a ground that I

forgot to plug back up human air man

even air it's just silly

stinky Pete ran like a dream we spent

the next few days testing things at the

dock and before we knew it we found

ourselves moving the cabinet back into

its rightful spot in the galley we just

signed away our engine project we wrote

a hidden note marking the day of

completion of our grand engine makeover

oh my gosh okay

right the leave and just been running

for a while we would take the boat on

the slip since January hmm damn shame

excited we're moving baby oh man look at

this deliciousness celebratory dinner on

SV Gemini tonight we are finally off the

dock again after more than five months

since January January 31st to June 26th

I think it's 26 yeah that's a long time

and we're anchored out in Clipper Cove

whoo my gosh I can't believe we're

finally anchored out again it's been

forever

so we actually moved the boat hey no

one's gonna sleep out here tonight let's

do it

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join us next time as we celebrate

Sonja's birthday in our favorite

anchorage finally get to go sailing and

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