Okay, I lied about the bait part...
Good ol' Dale the Builder has come up with another one. Years back, somebody parked a derelict sail boat and trailer at "The Mill" which is the grounds of an old sawmill he bought from my Father-in-Law waaaaay back. The mill is long gone, but it's reputation as a junk yard soldiers on.
So anyway, he got tired of looking at it but thought it had a "good" motor in it. He basically tore the boat away from the engine/trans/shaft/prop and what was left was a Yanmar Marine DIesel. 1 lung, 8 horse with a BIG freakin' alternator used to charge a pair of batteries to run the boat's electrics.
So far I've changed the oil and filter, purged the fuel system with fresh fuel and a new filter and pulled the starter off to check it out. At the moment, I can't see any reason why it won't run, just need to build a stand for it before I swipe the baddry out of one of my tractors and give it a whirl.
Good ol' Dale the Builder has come up with another one. Years back, somebody parked a derelict sail boat and trailer at "The Mill" which is the grounds of an old sawmill he bought from my Father-in-Law waaaaay back. The mill is long gone, but it's reputation as a junk yard soldiers on.
So anyway, he got tired of looking at it but thought it had a "good" motor in it. He basically tore the boat away from the engine/trans/shaft/prop and what was left was a Yanmar Marine DIesel. 1 lung, 8 horse with a BIG freakin' alternator used to charge a pair of batteries to run the boat's electrics.
So far I've changed the oil and filter, purged the fuel system with fresh fuel and a new filter and pulled the starter off to check it out. At the moment, I can't see any reason why it won't run, just need to build a stand for it before I swipe the baddry out of one of my tractors and give it a whirl.