In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we finally remove the exhaust section off the engine and discover that it has a turbo charger attached. The bad news is th...

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In 1971 the Carpenters released a song

called 'Rainy Days and Mondays' and the

lyric was rainy days and Mondays always

get me down. What happens if you wake up

on a Monday and it's a rainy day?

Do you get twice as down?

It's been raining steadily all night so I think this is a

good time to go to the boat and check

out the forward sail locker to see where

the water's getting in

Well there's no water there and there's

none along here where it was previously, it's not

coming through here either and nothing

there. So, the mystery continues

Ah here yep

from here. Now this is an old thing that's

been patched and that relates to that

there. So there's our wet leakage area

So we're gonna have to get rid of all of

this and patch it up somehow. Another job on the list

And this is the little setup

we've got while we dry out this weeping

keel situation. The things you've gotta

do when you're fixing boats

And it's nicely protected from the rain

It's a bit like owning the boat really

it's a balancing act

As you know it all

started out with a hole in the exhaust

elbow which we thought was great, take it

off, put a new one on, Bob's your uncle

Well of course the hole in the exhaust

album blew a load of dust into the

engine compartment and we spent an awful

lot of time cleaning that up and it's

still not clean. Still a job in progress

that one. Upon further inspection of the

air intake for the engine we discovered that

our engine actually has a turbo on it

and when I inspected the turbo it is

seized up something stupid

Obviously the previous owner hadn't

looked after it as you should with a

turbo and we didn't even know we had a

turbo. So that led to another job and I

had a go and spent quite a few hours

trying to get the turbo off but it was

just doing my nut in, so I got Juliano

from the boatyard here and he's just

spent maybe 45 minutes to an hour and he's

actually going off. So I'm going to clean

up now, put some gloves on and then I'm

gonna take the turbo apart and see if

it's recoverable or not. I'm actually

going to use this product that Heinz

sent us. This is the Brillean Hand Clean

cream and it's it kind of like got a

little bits of grit in it

so I've begun the process already, my

hands are thusly dirty so we'll give

them a good scrub of this stuff and see

what happens

Show and tell Baz, show and tell!

Well let's have a look see.

Wow! Wow!

That's pretty good! Obviously around the

fingernails I've got to give a bit of a

bit of a tighter scrub with a little

scrubbing brush but that's taking that off

real easy - yeah - brilliant stuff

I'm impressed with that yeah cuz

I know how long it took to get it

off with just ordinary washing up

liquid previously - yeah - that's good

Well this is our turbo unit and exhaust

unit and what I'm going to do is I'm

going to strip this section off because

there are bolts and nuts here at the back

and I'm going to get in there to clean

that bit in there then I'm gonna take

these bolts off here which separates

this section for this section and

that should then give me access to that bit

there which is in a hell of a bad shape

It's heavy this thing deservedly so. Right let's

strip this baby down

There you go just a little bit of gentle

persuasion, it's had liquid gasket in

there previously so we'll clean that out

and put it... put new liquid gasket on when

we put it back together

So that's that section

that we saw

and if you look at that, that's that section

pretty bad

Pretty bad

Holy crap

unbelievable

Actually what I'm gonna do is I'm

gonna clean that up around there first

before I take this off coz I really don't

want any of that crud going inside

It's just sooty oily sludge.

A B Sea won't know herself when we've cleaned this up

Can I help?

Not unless you want to get your hands dirty

I love getting my hands dirty. That's part of the fun

Alright well you can clean that one

Okay

Oh

Yeah I know, it's horrible isn't it? It's like tar.

Yeah. Oh that poor boat. Yeah.

If only we'd known. Yeah.

I mean it wasn't as if it

was like really obvious when you ... cuz

like you've looked in the engine haven't you and

sort of cleaned it ...

when we W.O.B.B.L.E.D. and everything but

the turbo part of it was just so far

at the back and kind of hidden by other

parts of the engine

Well we didn't even know we had it

No, that's what I mean and it wasn't

obvious that you would just see it by

looking in there hey?

I've got acetone on the

boat so once I take all this apart yeah

I'll clean it with acetone.

There's something very satisfying about

cleaning really dirty stuff isn't there? Yeah

Oh wow, there's actually metal underneath there. Yeah

This somewhat shiny collection of bits

and pieces in front of me is the

entirety of a turbocharger and exhaust

system of our Yanmar engine. Originally

you might remember that we had a hole in

our exhaust elbow and we bought a

replacement thinking we'd just swap

them out and that'd be the end of the

game. But no, when we were about to put

it all together we found out that the

turbocharger which is pretty much this

bit here and that bit there and this bit

here, were frozen solid. They'd obviously

not been serviced for

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Today's mission is to put the exhaust

and turbo components back together to

make a working model.

Put a little bit of WD on here

But now when we spin this side that

spins as well nicely. Better than before

Oh much better

This has got to screw into

there. OhI see what you mean. Yeah

Okay so now you can see

actually. You can line it up. Yep

We lined up? Yeah

Maybe it goes in that way. Der, it would be easier wouldn't it?

Putting back together the exhaust and turbo unit

was going so so well until we got to the

final bolt of six that holds this part

of the unit onto the the rest of the

stuff and these these are the - woops -

these are the little bolts and they sort

of like hook in through there and attach it on

Well I over tightened one of them and it

snapped off. These have all got see-through

holes and of course it snapped off in the

one that doesn't have a see-through

hole. This one here. So we're going to

have to get a guy in town to drill that

out for us and find us a replacement bolt.

So the story of the turbocharger continues

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