If your BMC refuses to start ...

[Guest]

Check the wiring on the glow plugs.

I had my engine rebuilt at the start of the year so I knew nothing serious was up, but she flatly refused to start. After about an hour of fiddling around bleeding everything (the mechanic at the boatyard said it would be fuel related) I noticed a wire had come out of the crimp on the second glow plug. This meant that only the first one was working. Sure enough she started first time when I put the wire back and gave her 30 seconds of heat.

It seems these engines will not start in the cold without using the heaters.

[MY littleboat]

And I thought the answer was going to be something like .. . Take it out, tie a bit of rope around it and use it as a mud weight!

Doh .

[Hockham Admiral]

And I thought the answer was going to be something like .. . Take it out, tie a bit of rope around it and use it as a mud weight!

Doh .

I thought that about our Nanni 50 when she stopped approaching St Olaves bridge this morning.......... story to follow tomorrow when I recover from it all...

[senator]

I thought you were going to beat it with a large branch.

[MY littleboat]

Oh I just remembered Ipswich transport museum are always happy to receive relics when they are donated!

[andyfish]

Ha Ha,but my BMC will fit under the bridges!

Andy

[Antares_9]

My D4s will fit under too Andy, trouble is I would have to remove it from the boat first.

[andyfish]

Andy

[Guest DAYTONA-BILL]

Yeah, but you can run those "antiquated" BMC 1.5s and Perkins 4108s on chip oil in an emergency, just try that with these new over complicated Nanni thingys

[MY littleboat]

So not only are you polluting the planet at a faster rate than any other engine ever built but everyone behind you, whilst dying from the heavy toxic gasses, will, for some reason they can't quite fathom, also feel rather hungry!

[Antares_9]

for some reason they can't quite fathom, also feel rather hungry!

So no change for you there Gav.

[Guest DAYTONA-BILL]

So not only are you polluting the planet at a faster rate than any other engine ever built but everyone behind you, whilst dying from the heavy toxic gasses, will, for some reason they can't quite fathom, also feel rather hungry!

Oh god, not another bloody "eco warrior?". If you feel that strongly about the "Global warming lie" sell your boat to somebody who has a mind of their own and buy a yacht .

[Antares_9]

Neil, you should really learn to recognise the use of such devices as, puns, irony, litotes, hyperbole and the like.

[Guest]

Neil, you should really learn to recognise the use of such devices as, puns, irony, litotes, hyperbole and the like.

now i know what they dint teach me when i was in school

PAY ATTENTION (soon after his focus is looking through the window)

Jonny

[Antares_9]

Get yourself a sub to "Private Eye" Jonny, you'll soon catch up.

[MY littleboat]

D-B - my sides are splitting hehehehe! Have a peep at another topic about a boat for sale on the Thames and you will read that the bmc engine is just about the most polluting engine ever built! All good fun. - I'm coughing at the thought!

[Hockham Admiral]

Neil, you should really learn to recognise the use of such devices as, puns, irony, litotes, hyperbole and the like.

Nor to forget that:

"a slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of one optic to an equine quadruped devoid of its visionary capacity"

[Antares_9]

Indeed so Jonh, indeed so.