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):

  1. Problem starting the engine
  2. Cleaning the engine with EcoPar diesel
  3. Lift the engine out of the boat
  4. Teardown of Volvo Penta MD19 (outer parts)
  5. Disassembling internal parts of Volvo Penta engine
  6. Cleaning the engine parts and first layer of paint
  7. Finding spare parts for Volvo Penta MD19
  8. Assembling the engine (Part One)
  9. Diesel injection pump renovation and assembling engine parts (part two)
  10. First start after service (and circulation pump renovation)
  11. Volvo Penta Heat Exchanger Renovation
  12. Gearbox renovation and crankcase ventilation solution
  13. Before and After – Volvo Penta Renovation
  14. Cost for Volvo Penta renovation
  15. Lifting the engine back into the boat
  16. Installing our Volvo Penta engine
  17. First drive after Volvo Penta renovation
  18. Easter tour and boatwork
  19. Electrical installation for the engine
  20. Alternator charges with too high voltage
  21. Engine problems at Vejrø
  22. Stuck at Vejrø with a broken engine
  23. Motor problems and a windy sail from SVG to Dominica
 

  • Easter tour and boatwork

    April 22, 2019 /

    It is Easter holiday now which means four days off work. The first day we took a tour with our ship Aline to the island Storön in the archipelago together with some other ships. It was definitely summer feelings in Stockholm with 20 degrees (68 Fahrenheit) and we brought our sliding hatch and Thomas worked with it for a while. We spent one night out and then drove back in the evening. The following day we went to the sailboat to continue working. First up was to add our new stop wire we bought. The old one was glitching and we want to have a reliable stop wire. We still…

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  • First drive after Volvo Penta renovation

    March 31, 2019 /

    It was time to finalize the installation of the engine so that we could test it after our Volvo Penta renovation. We had lifted it to the correct position and we needed to connect the gearbox to the engine and the propeller shaft and connect diesel, sea water, cooling system to the boiler and some electricity to the engine before we could do a test start inside the boat. First up was to assemble the gearbox and then connect it to the shaft. The gearbox need to be inserted precisely to its correct position and we used our rig (that we used when lifting the engine into position) to get…

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  • Installing our Volvo Penta engine

    March 29, 2019 /

    It was finally time to lift our Volvo Penta engine to its correct position in the boat and start the installation, after an entire winter of doing a full renovation of the engine (read all our blog posts about the renovation HERE). But before starting the installation we had to fix a small diesel leakage in the connection between our two fuel tanks. We noticed the leakage when lifting the engine into the boat but didn’t have the time to fix it immediately. So the first thing we needed to do was to fix the connection. We had a hard time get the connections in the correct position last time, since…

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  • Lifting the engine back into the boat

    March 24, 2019 /

    It was finally time to lift our Volvo Penta engine back into the boat. The weather forecast said it was going to be a warm and sunny, but windy, weekend so we decided to do the engine lift. First up was to lift it into the car, which was the hardest part for us when lifting it out of the boat, read more about it HERE. Since we had problems last time we built a rig so that it would be easier to get it into the car. Next up was to go to our ship Aline to get the small boat. When we lifted the engine out from the…

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  • Cost for Volvo Penta renovation

    March 18, 2019 /

    It is about time to share the cost for our Volvo Penta MD 19 renovation. As said earlier we have done most of the work ourselves and spent some time finding cheap spare parts on the internet. If you want to know more about where we found all the spare parts, click HERE. Pistons/Piston Rings/liners Ordered from internet to what we think was a reasonable price. The main issue here was that it was hard to find the correct liners. Cylinder head We outsourced the service of the cylinder head since we didn’t have the correct tools and this is the price we had to pay for that job. Engine…

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