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Great information and advice as ever John, many thanks 🍺

The housing is next to the heat exchanger on mine and the 4 bolts are nicely accessible. I remembered what you said though and proceeded with as much caution as I could, which wasn't much I guess.... 3 of them sheered off! At least I knew from your post that it could happen so I didn't tear my hair out lol The lovely people at Sutton Staithe Boatyard are coming next week to fix it for me. I know I could attempt this as a DIY job but it's always best I think to know my limitations and not risk making a bad job worse 👍

Good thought, I'll do a thorough check and see what turns up 👍

Just in case... Can images be disabled for this thread? 😂

The bottom line is that it's a shoddy move, they no doubt have checked the legality and care less about the morality.

Thanks Selsie, that sounds pretty much how I would have hoped it worked. Something odd happened with Keleka, the charger showed a fault and the voltage instrument on the dashboard registered nothing. Turning it all off and back on again seems to have reset everything and at the moment it looks good with no issues. Maybe something in my setup is sensitive but if it means not starting the engine while on shore power I can live with that 👍 The water temp guage, also not registering confused the issue. A new thermostat going in should hopefully prove that to be a coincidence rather than part of a bigger electrics problem 🤞

Odd isn't it, there must be some potential for problems but not in every case or for every vessel.

Got to boat, switched off the battery charger, disconnected shore power and did a visual check for melted wires etc. Having started her up the voltage meter didn't move for a long few seconds and then came to life with a normal reading! Phew... I seem to have escaped disaster 👍

All over the whole boat!

I watched my newly cleaned white boat get red spots, then streaks and now there are red lines in every nook and cranny!

Well that is exactly what I have done sadly. Run the engine while on shore power with the battery charger on! So I guess I need to learn how to check the alternator now and is it possible I've done for the battery charger too? It's beginning to sound like an expensive lesson 🙁

Thanks Smoggy, I'll check the book for normal pressure, usually while cruising it reads about 2 bar On my way home from boat now.. I need a fresh look in the morning.

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I haven't done the thermostat yet, so the new problems I've found today weren't caused by me at least. 1st on tickover for about 10 minutes the oil pressure looks high to me? 2nd the voltage meter said zero while running. I hadn't unplugged shore power but I don't think that makes any difference. The battery charger display usually says "Finished" but this time it was lit up as below. Is it me or am I looking at some sort of system failure or what do you think?

Thanks for the warning, I'll definitely proceed with caution!

Thank you John 👍

Thank you... it's much more satisfying to learn how to do jobs and accomplish maintenance for myself. You guys are very kind and helpful 🍺

Thermostat and gasket being sent to me by Peachments (very helpful by the way) It's a while since I worked on engines in any capacity, what are your opinions on applying liquid/silicone gasket in addition to the standard one supplied please?

Quite right too 👍 😂

We ate at The Lion on friday. The service, food and drinks were all outstanding 👍 By coincidence we are having Sunday lunch at The Lion Somerton today... If only there was a Tiger and maybe a Rhino we could go on a pub safari instead of a pub crawl 🙂

Vous hit le nail dans la tete Griff 👍 Mais je have un thirst pour knowledge 😂

Nanni that is? Nanny.. Or Narnee We all need to get on the same page with this. We don't really but I always find myself saying it questioningly and I don't need to supply people with any further evidence that I don't know what I'm talking about lol

Thanks Vaughan 👍

All good ideas, many thanks guys 👍