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Forum: Troubleshooting 01-19-2021, 09:17 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 9,501
Posted By HOTFLASH
fiberglass wrap removal

Also glasses and gloves. And of course you have a mask these days, right? You do not want any in you eyes, hands or lungs.:eek:

Mary
HotFlash
Forum: Troubleshooting 10-29-2020, 01:01 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 6,563
Posted By HOTFLASH
Another way water gets into engine oil

Once, in the fall while on the hard, because of a hatch leak, I had a bilge full of water after a huge downpour of rain. I had not yet opened the bilge drain plug and pump was not on. The water came...
Forum: Announcements 08-13-2020, 11:25 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 6,054
Posted By HOTFLASH
Thank you

Bill,

I greatly appreciate your shepherding this (our) forum. Without this experience of warm, knowledgeable and generous sharing of this A4 community, I certainly could not have tackled the...
Forum: Drive Train / Propellers 12-14-2019, 09:42 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,550
Posted By HOTFLASH
Cool Room for thin anode on a Tartan 27

Chica,

There is very little room for an anode, other than a thin donut collar type on the 1" shaft of a Tartan 27. Boatzincs.com carries "LC-3 Micro Thin Collar Zinc Anode - 1" Shaft" which is...
Forum: Troubleshooting 12-10-2019, 11:02 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 5,807
Posted By HOTFLASH
gasoline-with-etoh rated hoses

I cannot tell for sure, but it looks like the hoses for fuel are not the USCG rated gasoline-with-etoh rated hoses. They are usually black with a red stripe. I know that the interior of non-etoh...
Forum: Cooling System 09-16-2019, 05:00 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,252
Posted By HOTFLASH
Sheared pin

Of course need to figure out why it sheared.:eek:
Forum: Ignition System 06-10-2019, 10:10 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 7,037
Posted By HOTFLASH
Question Re post #12, "Plan C" Alternator Tach

Can the ISSPRO alternator Moyer supplies be connected to the alternator?
Forum: Cooling System 01-19-2019, 03:23 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,367
Posted By HOTFLASH
Use a paper gasket too

I recall asking Don about the same issue and he said it was ok to use the paper gasket used for the original Oberdorfer pump cover along with the skinny o ring that comes with the newer Moyer pump...
Forum: General Interest 10-31-2018, 08:44 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 5,198
Posted By HOTFLASH
Battery lift

Yes you definitely need a least one battery.

I have 2 group 27 wet deep cycle batteries. I am 70 yo :eek:, and not unusually strong or fit. I thought out how to do it. I brought them one at a...
Forum: Troubleshooting 10-30-2018, 11:05 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 9,434
Posted By HOTFLASH
Red face Knock knock. Who's there?

Hate to expose my ignorance so, :o but please explain to we uninitiated just what we are looking at. Or should not be seeing if all were well.

Mary
HotFlash
T27 Yawl
Forum: Alberg 05-21-2018, 08:10 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 7,100
Posted By HOTFLASH
oil pressure gauge

Greg,

Did you also change the sender too?? Gauges and senders must be paired. See your install instructions.

Mary A
Tartan 27 Yawl
Forum: Aftermarket Kits and Accessories 03-01-2018, 11:19 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,577
Posted By HOTFLASH
Low oil pressure/Hi water temp

VDO makes gauges that include, with the appropriate VDO sender, visual in-gauge alarms that can also be used with the cole hersee/Moyer Marine buzzer alarm. I purchased mine thru Fisheries Supply....
Forum: General Interest 01-14-2018, 04:19 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,962
Posted By HOTFLASH
A4 on smaller boats

Tartan 27's built by Douglass and McLeod from '61 to late 70's have had A4's as original equipment. But in the very last years, with the "27-2" design, a Farymann diesel was at first optional and...
Forum: Alberg 12-10-2017, 09:44 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,835
Posted By HOTFLASH
Teak Hatch Cover on Tartan 27

Solid teak planks, I think 4. Black caulking between the planks, with vertical solid teak edging forming the lip. Two solid teak bracing planks on underside of the hatch at right angles to the run...
Forum: Alberg 12-10-2017, 01:41 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,835
Posted By HOTFLASH
Teak Hatch Cover on Tartan 27

My cockpit hatch covers are teak. Is there a way to adhere the gasket material to teak?
Mary
'74 T27 Yawl
HotFlash
Forum: Fuel System 12-05-2017, 06:04 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,624
Posted By HOTFLASH
Fuel pump rebuild

Even I (am no mechanic) could successfully do the rebuild. :cool: The instructions were great.

Mary
Forum: Alberg 12-05-2017, 05:59 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 24,796
Posted By HOTFLASH
Off topic question--actually 3 of them

What kind of gaskets are on your cockpit locker hatch covers? Know where they could be purchased? Aren't you glad you posted pics? I am!

Mary
Forum: General Maintenance 11-14-2017, 09:09 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 3,091
Posted By HOTFLASH
Anodes and salinity

This is the reply from my son, Andrew Eichmann, NOAA ocean scientist, who whenever the time comes, will probably inherit my '74 Tartan 27 yawl #570 powered by a the original A4, and sailed only in...
Forum: Cooling System 11-13-2017, 07:58 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,666
Posted By HOTFLASH
Dealing with the potential for freezing

You might drain the water from the engine and everything from the water strainer and water pump, from the port/plug just forward of the accessory drive, port/plug at aft end of the exhaust manifold,...
Forum: General Maintenance 11-13-2017, 07:25 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 3,091
Posted By HOTFLASH
My son the NOAA oceanographer

My son is a NOAA oceanographer scientist. He is a sailor AND lives in MD. I will ask him.:cool:

Mary
Forum: Electrical 11-12-2017, 02:25 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 8,891
Posted By HOTFLASH
Gauge -

Thanks for the diagram. Print is small for my eyes, so I cannot see some of the labels and have not followed each wire. But at first glance I did notice that the G( -) wires from the gauges one to...
Forum: Electrical 10-31-2017, 04:47 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,164
Posted By HOTFLASH
Thanks all

Thank you all for your responses.

Sorry I did not make it clear that I have no power other than my 2- 12v group 27 flooded batteries which I disconnect from my system, and have left on my boat...
Forum: Electrical 10-30-2017, 08:13 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,164
Posted By HOTFLASH
Question Grounding when on the hard

So, when on the hard in the winter, how can the engine or the shaft be the effective ground connection when the boat is not in the water? Am I missing something? :confused: I disconnect my...
Forum: General Interest 10-14-2017, 07:19 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,390
Posted By HOTFLASH
What's it for on a boat?

So how might you use this in a sailboat/A4 application? Why the excitement?

Mary
Forum: Grampian 09-26-2017, 10:48 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 28,143
Posted By HOTFLASH
Question Left out

So which show are you all referring to?:confused: Did I miss something?

Mary
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