(Salinas, Puerto Rico)
I am going to share a boring little update with you. Our engine is fixed! Yes, fixed ya’ll!!!!!!!!
We spent two extremely long days (or so they felt) replacing the raw water pump (day 1) and then the starter motor (day 2). Let me just tell ya, swapping out the starter was probably definitely one of the worst jobs around. It’s a simple fix for sure, but holy hell was our starter located in the most difficult-to-access area of the engine compartment requiring both Jereme and I to stretch our nonexistent yoga skills to the max. And ultimately, wind up with mega grease covered hands. Sheesh.
Oh, and as luck would have it after all ^^that^^ miserable hard work replacing our starter, turns out, was totally unnecessary. :(((((
You read that right. Unnecessary.
Luckily, we have the most awesome blog followers in the world, along with all some super friendly harbor neighbors and one awesome diesel mechanic here in the Salinas harbor, who were so freaking helpful in trying to assist us with our engine woes. People are seriously so nice, it’s downright amazing.
Aside from our broken raw water pump, turns out, our “engine not starting” issue was simply an electrical issue at the on/off switch in the cockpit. Ugh. And yes, we actually did in fact check the wires leading from the switch and all looked good. But the switch itself was bad. What are the freaking odds?
The good news is we now have a backup starter motor since, clearly, our original one wasn’t actually broken. Gotta look on the bright side, right? ;))
Happy Tuesday!
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Ha, we did that this past summer. Now we have a new ignition and a rebuilt starter. I like not starting the engine with a screw driver 😉 Glad it all worked out (one way or another!). ~Jackie