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Cost for Volvo Penta renovation
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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Gearbox renovation and crankcase ventilation solution
In this blog post we will show our gearbox renovation and crankcase ventilation solution. For the crankcase ventilation solution we finally decided that we will pass the blow-by gases to the intake via the valve cover. Gearbox renovation We have a Volvo Penta RB gearbox, which we wanted to take apart to see that everything looked good, and change/repair what was necessary. We measured the wear on the gearbox. Everything was according to specification, so we will only change sealings and gaskets. One thing we noticed when taking it apart was that the old oil in the gearbox smelled like transmission oil, which is common to use for gearboxes, but…
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Assembling Volvo Penta MD19 (Part One)
After we had cleaned all the parts of our engine and all the new spare parts had arrived it was time to start assembling our Volvo Penta MD19 engine. During the whole process of assembling
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Finding spare parts for Volvo Penta MD19
In this blog post we will share where we found the spare parts for our Volvo Penta MD19 (which is very similar to Volvo Penta MD21). Some of the spare parts were really hard to find, so hopefully this will help someone.
