mvweebles
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- Vessel Name
- Weebles
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Willard 36 Trawler
A friend with a 15-year old sailboat with small Volvo turbo (around 45hp). Housing on oil cooler (raw water) ruptured. Cooler was replaced (cooler alone is $2700!!!!). I guess it's difficult access so install was difficult. He took it for a brief test run around harbor - after around 45-mins, oil pressure dropped from 55 psi down to 25 psi. Apparently has some additional exhaust smoke and some oil in exhaust. He know has emulsified engine oil, and oil level is low.
Any thoughts on what damage was done? My advice is to bypass the factory oil cooler with a generic online one and isolate that problem. Then change engine oil a couple times and see how it runs. How to dry out a wet engine? Any other ideas I can pass along?
Peter
Any thoughts on what damage was done? My advice is to bypass the factory oil cooler with a generic online one and isolate that problem. Then change engine oil a couple times and see how it runs. How to dry out a wet engine? Any other ideas I can pass along?
Peter