So the engine has finally relented to my superior firepower :-)  All it took was every trick I ever learned to get rusted bolts out (well that and a bucket full of perserverance.

So far so good. Time to walk down to the pavillion for another picnic.

Kippered herring, string cheese, chips, chocolate mouse and water. Lunch of champions. Now I am ready to finish pulling engine apart.

This is the culprit. The spun rod bearing and a crankshaft that needs turned and a rod that needs reconditioned.

Of course no disassembled engine is complete without pictures of the head that hid all the bad stuff. I actually am beginning to enjoy the engine work. My back is screaming at me but like I said, my world needs puzzles. I like engines, they are easy puzzles for me. I may actually do more of them as long as they are not in my galley.

So Rich is helping me figure out some computer stuff. I swear, computers are much more complicated that engines, or for that matter, anything I have seen done on a boat to date.

I will attempt to find picture of galley without engine, parts and tools in it. I now have my home back. I will assemble engine in cockpit and install myself. I am determined not to need help with any part of it. I will also be painting engine bright yellow with a few parts like dipstick and pulleys bright blue. Will be working on that while I wait on parts.