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Looks great! Unfortunately I’m getting transferred down south so it’s with a sad heart that I have to try to sell. We've had such a blast on this boat, so many great adventures and memories for the kids and my wife and I. It kills me to sell, especially after finally getting her running good...

thank you for the ideas! I'm hoping to work on it next week when I get some time off before having to travel again.

Hello, I have twin 3208 N/A engines and one of them now stalls when i decelerate but only after it's been running a while. This is the same engine that had a piston head break last year, followed by a new water pump. I also replaced the throttle shaft seal last year and have not had problems...

that looks great! I've been pondering something similar, but want to make a davit that serves as a pot-puller/outboard hoist/dinghy hoist but doesn't get in the way of fishing. I feel like this is going to be a dumb question, but where's your dinghy stored? We have a transom-mount inflatable...

well, I still feel like there's a knock and white smoke but I haven't been out past the fuel station since October. If it's not just my imagination, it's definitely nothing like it was when the piston broke, hopefully valves just still not adjusted right or something easy. And I will be the...

I only tested the injectors on the side I took apart. In hindsight I should have pulled the other 4 but my objective was to get it fixed and back together, I definitely had some tunnel vision after a couple months. But, I took it out Sunday and put a few hours on it and it seems like it's...

thanks, it will all work out eventually. Honestly it's becoming a little comical at this point, but I sure do drink a lot more than I used too...(just kidding). I think it was harder the first time because that was prime fishing and boating season and we missed most of it this year, so it's...

hello everyone, long time, no post. I replaced two injectors- the one on the broken piston was bad and one I managed to tweak trying to get it out of the head and ruined it. Put the new piston on, new rod, new rod bearings, and new rings. I filled it with oil and coolant, made a couple of rookie...

Oil was apparently pretty dirty even after I changed it, but otherwise seemed good. I'd need to add some occasionally but never noticed thinning, "growing," or a diesel smell. Thanks!

I just talked to the mechanic that did the rebuild and apparently when the boat was overhauled in 2004, the owners wanted it faster after the engines were rebuilt. The mechanic gave it more rack in the fuel system (? or something like that) to increase the horsepower at the owners request. He's...

yes, it was black and dusty just like the others. The mechanic that did the rebuild thought there should be another part number besides the one we found on the bad piston. We thought maybe it was illegible due to the beating it took, so he cleaned that one to look. Unfortunately there wasn't...

what do you mean by steam cleaned? Is it because it's so clean compared to the others? I mentioned my son had cleaned it to to try to find the part number, but maybe I wasn't clear enough that he cleaned that piston in the cylinder with the staining. Prior to that, it looked just like the other...

The only thing I can catch a fingernail on is the top of the cylinder I pulled the piston from where the metal transfer is. Can't feel the line in 3L, and can just barely feel the line in 4L with my fingertip but not enough to catch a nail. I'm still holding out on my plan of honing it and...

Here are the pics. The holes in the top of the bad piston are there because I couldn't get it out all the way from the bottom so I added a few screws to attach a small cable to and pulled it from the top. Any thoughts on the stain marks on one of the cylinders? It's the one next to the bad one...

Thanks, but we don't have those places here. We are a small, remote fishing town with very limited resources and somehow only one diesel shop in spite of the number of boats here. Kind of blows my mind, but it is what it is I found the guy in Washington that did the rebuilds and called him...

congratulations!

yes, it's a 3 ring piston. Which apparently makes it harder to replace. I contacted a diesel shop in Tacoma and they're supposed to be looking into it and calling me back. The engine was rebuilt in '03-04 and the only I thing I could find about it says it was rebuilt back to stock. I found...

Here's the connecting rod

Oil hole, not home

Here's the piston. Makes me wonder if maybe an oil home was blocked? Looking at where it appears to have been hot. I'll try to get cylinder pics this weekend. Can't really get pics of the journal very well.

you guys are killing me. I had myself convinced I'd make it if I didn't get it fixed anytime soon but now I'm looking at every scenario and trying to figure out how I'm going to be fishing in 2 weeks when we have friends in town. The hardest part is that lousy "job" thing that always gets in the...

thanks everyone. We had the mechanic come take a look today and got some pointers on pulling the engine out. I think I'm going to build a cradle and get the engine in my garage, basically overhaul it over the fall/winter, and put it back in with the goal of fishing next April or May. If I'm...

Thanks. I only pulled one side, and this was the #8 cylinder. The other three cylinders looked fine as far as I could tell. When we were tearing it apart, we did notice the valve to the dripless bearings was pretty clogged up, I wonder how much water could even get in there. Maybe the cooling...

Here's the head. Too bad I can't just pull the piston and have a V-7 for a few months!

As far as I can tell, it's part of the top of the piston. It was actually stuck to the top of the cylinder when I pulled the head. Looked like it broke off and just stuck at the top so the piston was matching up to it every time, it wasn't floating around in the cylinder space as far as I can...