Diesel engine jobs: impeller, filters and bleeding
Eleven jobs step by step: strainer and impeller, oil and fuel filters, bleeding the fuel system, belt tension, and hand starting with decompressors.
How the lesson starts
The basket in that clear bowl is the only thing between the sea and your impeller. It fills with weed, and it fills fastest on the days you are working hardest.
What you practise inside
- Clean the raw-water strainer
- Change the raw-water impeller
- Take the impeller out before you crank
- Check the stern gland
- Check the engine oil
- Change the oil and its filter
- Change the fuel filters
- Bleed the fuel system
- Check and tension the drive belt
- The engine will not turn over
- Hand-start with decompressors
This is a preview. The lesson itself is interactive: you work through it step by step, and every answer is checked as you go.
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