Recent content by Gilhooley

Sincerely appreciate your comments. Thank you. However, the term sarcasm might indicate I didn't mean it but man... especially that lamp... WAY meant it:) I had a dream earlier this year I took the lamp out into a field and "fixed it" with a shotgun.. followed by someone emailing me from the...

I have 3 minor issues to clear from the Readiness Log for my Nordic Tug 42 Clock Work to be in peak condition to go back on the market. One of them has been an unconventionally expressed oil leak at my Onan 11.5KW generator. This was just solved... the part's been ordered from Kubota.. etc...

Hi Luna and thank you very much. I had stumbled upon the custom that Kubota imprints the model and SN on the valve cover by speaking with one of their distributors, but not that they also add it to the block, which I clearly should have known. The number on the valve cover is about a quarter...

Locating the Kubota engine model for the MDKAW My current tack... I've got a detailed list of the engine (kubota) specs for the MDKAW engine. That's seemingly a big fingerprint to zone in on what kubota engine also had those specs in 2004. No luck yet but I ain't that bright and usually take a...

Hi Ted.. Never knowingly filled above spec but at this point with all the leaking that's occurred, I don't believe it would matter now. Since your Kubota engine looks pretty similar to my kubota engine, I think it's reasonable to assume that my oil pan is also steel, so maybe I can get one...

Thank you Sir... good stuff. The traditional in-service oil changes always use the reverso unit but during the diagnostic phase, it just comes out without any special prodding. As literally everything does come out, the leak is obviously at the drain hole level, or... a failure somewhere in the...

Man my heart sank when I thought I missed my motor mounts going into the pan! The parts book shows the mounts attach to the block at 4 places. mounting a big vibrating thing to a cast aluminum pan sounds like the designer was asleep on that one. I do agree that clearance is lousy though. I had...

Thanks Bliss... appreciated. THAT was exactly my expectation for the source of the leak before I began... an o-ring or a gasket, because that had been my experience for decades. Things don't just OPEN UP without moving. For gaskets and o-rings, I have no qualms at all about using AT-205 because...

Hi Ted... interesting you bring that up. I just pulled the oil filter a couple of days ago which was motivated by an odd encounter earlier in the month... I was going down the gap between the filter and the wall of the generator box with an inspection mirror.. shining my UV light into the mirror...

Hi and thanks... the gen was winterized and sitting on the hard for months before the leak began... possibly almost 7 months, so not running. G

I have a long-latency (days) high-flow oil leak on my Onan MDKAW. Preliminary diagnosis... It leaks all the way down to the bottom of the pan -------> it's the pan Facts... ○ This began after MONTHS (6... more?) on the hard. ○ I had to get thru some leak-test training from the AF in 1981...

Selling my 2005 NT42 Flybridge. I've put together a web site that covers most things people will be wondering. https://www.clockwork-usa.com Well maintained by a very mechanical owner. The all-mechanical (i.e. reduced-complexity/higher reliability) Cummins 6CT engine.. not one of the...

There appears to be a bit of a surge in Clock Work's site traffic that link back to here and the Sentoa list. As my selling effort (such that it ever much existed:) will likely be changing soon, there is a note those interested may wish to see at: https://www.clockwork-usa.com/post/changes...

I want to sincerely thank everyone here to took the time to share their opinion, and in particular Peter for his really thorough argument against (for me) seizing the opportunity to become a charter owner/investor... victim:) I was initially (nonspecifically) negative and was looking for a...

Greetings, I was contacted through my website today by someone with a business proposition that involves my boat... to charter Clock Work, my Nordic Tug 42.. in the north in the summer and the south in the winter, and to make the transit each way some kind of "adventure" thing. This is...