SV Ramble On | Our Perkins Boils Over!

The saga of the overheating Perkins 4-108 continues. After some diagnostic work on the engine, we still couldn't find anything that would cause it to overheat. Running it at the dock doesn't raise the temperature out of range, so we thought we'd try a weekend out on the San Joaquin River to see how it ran. It boiled over almost immediately! Running at very low rmps in the slough to get to the river the temperature started to climb. After about 5 minutes running around 1800 rmps it boiled over.

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Music:
Opening Music: Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions - Feel The Funk
Chameleon - Gentle Shove
Sivan Talmor - Flight of the Inner Bird
Rex Banner - Superman Soul (instrumental version)

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I’m Jeni and he’s Rich. We’re really just a couple of average Joes. In a nutshell we met and married in our early 20s; I graduated from college in my late 20s; adopted two cats and a dog in the late 90s; sold a house and bought a new house in our mid 30s; then sold the new house and moved onto a sailboat in our early 40s. In between all that we had a bunch of fun like camping, scuba diving, watching hockey games (Go Red Wings!), concerts, traveling, spear fishing, restoring a 1963 Chevy II Nova; spending time with family and friends. A few years ago we decided to lay off all the fun-having to fix up this old boat. We figure if we put our noses to the grindstone for a few years, we’ll be able to travel for a few years and do all the fun things we’ve missed.