Saturday, July 24, 2010

Main Engine

The engine in "Glory B" is a 1977 Ford Lehman 120HP diesel. It was installed by Ford Industrial Power in 1977 brand new from the factory. Unfortunately, according to letters found on the boat, it was installed wrong. The raw water pump was mis-installed, and as a consequence when the boat was finally launched in 1996 the engine overheated. As a result, there's now an annoying 'tick-tick-tick' exhaust leak noise, and I need to change the exhaust gasket.
Here are a couple of pictures of the engine. Not very exciting, I'm afraid. As of now, the engine has 206 hours on it from new.


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