The first is a leak in the rear Port corner, an area that I though was ok, it appears to be weeping a small amount (about 1 ping every 24 hours), I suspect a joint has failed somewhere, I've fixed it from the inside using resin and filler and will drag her out sometime next year and renew that whole corner and will probably do the other side at the same time, should only take a week to cut out the timber and renew, seal and repaint.
The other is the engine block seems to be cracked, it was fixed by the previous owner but the fix appears to have failed, its leaking out of the studs for the dynastart and also below that. It had been packed with liquid metal type filler, but its come away from the block. I have been repacking the block with resin based metal putty and hopefully that should solve the problem until I can either replace/rebuild the engine.
The long term plan is to replace the diesel with an electric motor, but I can't do that till battery prices drop some more, ideally I'd want to use li-ion batteries for capacity and weight saving.
No comments:
Post a Comment