Engine
Our engine, a Volvo Penta MD19 (which is very similar to a Volvo Penta MD21) hadn't been started in 10 years when we bought our boat. In this category you will be able to follow our work as we do a full service of the engine. We have done almost all of the work ourselves. List of posts in the category ( with oldest first):
- Problem starting the engine
- Cleaning the engine with EcoPar diesel
- Lift the engine out of the boat
- Teardown of Volvo Penta MD19 (outer parts)
- Disassembling internal parts of Volvo Penta engine
- Cleaning the engine parts and first layer of paint
- Finding spare parts for Volvo Penta MD19
- Assembling the engine (Part One)
- Diesel injection pump renovation and assembling engine parts (part two)
- First start after service (and circulation pump renovation)
- Volvo Penta Heat Exchanger Renovation
- Gearbox renovation and crankcase ventilation solution
- Before and After – Volvo Penta Renovation
- Cost for Volvo Penta renovation
- Lifting the engine back into the boat
- Installing our Volvo Penta engine
- First drive after Volvo Penta renovation
- Easter tour and boatwork
- Electrical installation for the engine
- Alternator charges with too high voltage
- Engine problems at Vejrø
- Stuck at Vejrø with a broken engine
- Motor problems and a windy sail from SVG to Dominica
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Motor problems and a windy sail from SVG to Dominica
February 14-21, 2021 When we had taken our exit test in Bequia we did the last preparations to leave for Dominica. The sail would take more than 24hrs and the forecast promised quite strong winds. We left Bequia quite early in the morning. As it was a lot of wind we had quite little sail up but still manage to sail above 7 knots between the islands (in the lee of the islands we made less speed). We tried to sail as close hauled as was comfortable and thus followed the islands instead of sailing strait north (if you look at a map you can see that Dominica lays almost…
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Stuck at Vejrø with a broken engine
September 10-18, 2020 While we waited for the engine parts we spent our days fixing other stuff on our boat and also explored the island we were stuck at. There where bikes that was free to use so we took advantage of that and took a tour around the island. As we bought a bunch of food before our departure from Stockholm we had plenty of food to eat during our stay (no food store on the island, only able to buy small stuff). We also got a lot of help from the people working on the island, they lent us some tools we didn’t bring along and we got…
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Engine problems at Vejrø
September 7-10, 2020 We spent one night in Gislövs läge before our departure out of Sweden, towards Denmark. On Monday morning, September 7th, we left the marina. Strong westerly winds were approaching the night towards Tuesday so instead of going around Denmark towards Kiel we chose to go between the islands Falster and Sjælland to take cover from these winds. How we sailed and at which dates and some small notes can be found under Our route. We set sail right after we left Gislövs läge and kept the sails up for some time until we reached a wind turbines park that was not on our charts (and our charts are…
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Alternator charges with too high voltage
Sunday also meant boat work and it was time to move Anne-Mon from the winter location to our ship. During the summer we will have a spot in a marina further out in the archipelago, but that is pretty far away so it is perfect to have her next to the ship for a while. Since we have connected the service batteries we also wanted to test the alternator on the engine. We haven’t done this before and during our engine renovation we didn’t do any work with the alternator, we had just hoped that it would work. We magnetized the alternator by applying 12V to the D+ pin with…
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Electrical installation for the engine
Weekend and Saturday meant working with the boat, and most of the day we worked with the electrical installation for the engine. Our goal with the electrical system overhaul right now is to get the electrics around the engine to work. The rest of the system will we go over thoroughly later on. We also worked a little bit with preparing the cockpit. Hopefully it will get warmer soon and we will be able to continue with the plastic repairs. Next up will be to continue with the electrical system and move the boat from its winter location. If you are interested in reading more about our electrical systems all…
