So work inside the basement is nicer with at least some degrees above zero.
When I removed the heat exchanger from the engine I found two rubber wings from the impeller and - left - in the pump there was the impeller missing two wings!
The pump will be renovated an worn parts will be replaced. NB these pumps HAS metal parts that should be changed after some (many) years, eg "halfmoon-thing", the front lid and actually the bottom wall...
Here's the Seatiger 555 released from paint and the glue inside - I mean the grease inside, but it was more as chewing gum!
Extreamly stiff in -10C. It would been impossible to raise the anchor with this grease! It was a hard messy digging in old dryed grease. I used 2 liters of diesel to get rid off the stuff.
Otherwise the windlass was in perfect condition - thats inside - but all paint was ugly and now it's getting new! :-)
In the old S&L handbook they recomend Shell 'A' grease. As with the winsches I'm having second toughts about grease. Even huge lorries hasn't used grease in their weels beerings for decades! All wheels inside is in "connnection" with each other. So it should be enough if the lowest wheel where in connecction with oil because it would transport oil up to the other ones. Then there are the two small ones that goes up and down...are these beeing oiled enough? Anyone?
