Gearbox repairs

Hi All

Some of the stuff that we have been doing in Hout Bay.

My gearbox needed some attention. It was slipping. All the people I spoke to said I would have to change the plates. What better way to find out then just to strip it. Turned out to be 100%. All that was needed was to change to a Dexron 3 F oil and the problem would have been solved. Very happy I didn't just take it to the gearbox "specialist". Lots of fun trying to get it all reassembled without a workshop manual.

Back in the bilges again where it is working better than ever. Maybe just wanted some attention.

I don't need thing that need attention right now.

 

Then Alex needed some attention too.  

Climbing out of the companionway into the cockpit he popped his knee. When we arrived back he was making some strange dinosaur noises. He was carried on a tatty old piece of ply to the car park, loaded in the back of a bakkie and sorted out in the doctors practice, still on his piece of ply. I have never heard him talk so much K%^ as after his morphine experience.

I want some too.

 

I have included some of the pics of the Water Maker.

Salt water is pumped at 70-80 bar by a CAT 310 high pressure pump into 4 reverse osmosis tubes. I can increase the pressure for higher yield, of decrease for a better quality water. At 1000rpm on my diesel motor which belt drives the CAT pump, I get 180lts of fresh water per hour. (very happy with that)

Yes I know that storing batteries under a water-maker is not a good idea.

 

We had another fantastic SA type braai at HBYC.

Cheers

Rob

NOT impressed with having to take out my Gearbox.

 

Gearbox in pieces. all looks 100%. Different oil would have made this all unnecessary $&%$..

Alex in the waiting room of the local Hout Bay Doctors room. Dislocated Knee back in place

CAT 310 pump belt driven off my motor for the "watermaker"

Bank of 4 reverse osmosis tubes. I run the system at 70BAR (for the technical mindes)

PROOF. this is direct from the tubes 180lts per hr

Braai up at the Hout Bay Yacht Club