daio web

welcome bud nice to get another member  to the forum there are a few with yaks 

12 hours ago, mike farrants said:

no - would of got rolled over I think!

the colvics are good sea boats  if you got rolled over its probaly skipper error 🐳

On 3/18/2024 at 9:51 PM, Odyssey said:

Coppercoat don’t last for ever, needs redoing after a few years…. Been 9 years since last done so redid it today 

 

needs a quick clean but nearly ready for season 

fair play luke she looks great nice job done there

thanks for the update  glad you sorted it time to enjoy it again 🐳

nice one great write up and pics thanks for sharing 🐳

well done mate we are not the only ones blanking been a poor year are they still dumping that mud from hinkley 

nice one bud 🐳

10 hours ago, jonnyswamp said:

That snowballed a bit then 🫣

Well done on sorting it and not just settling on "it'll do"

Got to get mine out in a few weeks time, didn't get chance last Oct/Nov 

Pretty sure the cutlass bearing is on the list too 😭

yeah fair bit done always something to do i hear the fishing as been real bad  probaly going more west this summer  the cutless bearing was not that bad to do its the realigning the engine all the best with yours if you need a hand give me a  call 

20 hours ago, Andy135 said:

Urgh, that sounds a pain of a job. Good on you for taking the bull by the horns though.

Curious as to why you had to lap the valves again? I thought they only needed lapping after installing new valve seats or new valves with old seats. As a side note I replaced a burnt valve on an old Astra I had years ago and never bothered to lap it in and it ran fine.

i fitted new valve stem seals aswell made sense with the head of old ones had gone hard 

top dangling mike  and co 🐳

4 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

Hope all is well and you can get out soon Dave! 

yeah all good neil thanks bud

4 minutes ago, daio web said:

well boats been on the slip way up our club for just over a mounth now i only brought it in for what  needed doing  boat still there so removed the old cutless bearing as gone real bad it does not help with the real muddy water up hear  its like valve grinding paste thats another story fitted new cutless and realign engine back to the shaft thats all done noticed a little oil leak coming from the exhaust manifold so pulled that of to fit a new one but when i took it of the gasket looked ok so next i took the rocker box of to find all the valve sealed all sitting differnt on the vales so ordered new head gasket top end set pulled the head of and it looks like the gasket give way from a oil port to the outside edge of the gasket took all the valves out new valve stem seals and had the seat all the valves again with valve grinding paste  so put it all back together now just waiting on the big tides this weekend coming to see if its ok happy boating all 

also when the head was of i put all the injectours in to be recond nothings cheap anymore 

welcome bazz  glad to wecome you what sort of a boat you after🐳

30 minutes ago, Malc said:

Getting quite common unfortunately 

theres been the odd siting of them down here aswell  strange looking things 

17 hours ago, Captain Sensible said:

The first time I read this I was like, yeah need a different boat. Now I’m thinking hell yeah, I DO like balls out AND slow as fuck. Could this be the dream boat. 
 

Sounds like my Marina loves a bit of tape measure play so need to decide on how deep the pockets are. 
 

In the meantime I’ve been reading about Marlin 585’s. 
 

Prob just need to buy an Aqua bell with massive diesels and get it done 

there is a couple of aquabells for sale on BOATS.COM  look ok nice boats

hi mate  nice report  it looks like its hard going everywhere   at least you had a couple 🐳

nice one bud its hard going at the moment  up this way   good report and pics 🐳

great report bud thanks for sharing 🐳

great report mike shame on the fish cant wear gloves when i am fishing i find it better without them 

i had my prop redone last year  there was a little bit of play then but its got a lot worse latley so i will go through it all again 

its the brass one jon i just made a prop puller today then i will have to realgn all the engine again  boats hey great when there going until theres a problem 

yes mate got to pull shaft aswell hope i dont have to get one made i priced up the lengh of bar  my mate works in a big machine shop so he be able to make the same again  not even looking forward to bloody measuring it 

hi all anyone done a cutlass bearing i have the boat coming out of the water next month on the next spring tide  i am going to try and make a puller to see if i can rmove it that way if not i think i will have to cut it out any other ideas please on doing it thanks daio

nice pics mate shame about the fishing always next time mate at least you give her a run and cleaned the anchor