Day 185, Engine base sanding and fillets building to glass mount blocks to hull. Engine rroubleshooting.

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Engine mounts 

Prepare Engine mount blocks for glassing.

Clean wood, sand hull to prepare blocks to glass.

Sanded out old glassing and sanded hull to base laminate.



Replace d rotted wood and glued shims to fill gaps. Made fillets to prevent glass to hang in air in the inner corner.
Unfortunately it was pretty cold day and fillets epoxy did not get hard enough to glass them over.

So, need to wait next weekend.

Interior.

Put insulation at the end of pilot berth and dry fit plywood panel for inverter battery cut switch.


Engine

Continue troubleshoot engine for white smoke on high RPM.
 
What was done already:
Compression checked 390-400 psi.
Connected tachometer to know actual RPM.
Original injectors tested, they worked relatively good on testes but then one vale had lock in open state.
Nozzles are replaced not open pressure 2200 psi, hold fuel well at 2000 for 10 seconds at least. Spray pattern is good.
Valve gaps adusted to  0.15 mm gap.
Fuel filter opened/cleaned/replaced. OMG how much slim and dirt was there.
Fuel  replaced, just shut to air, but had to make sure 
Took out DIY mixing elbow.

Injection pump timing checked and I found the injection  is 10 degrees late! MAYBE it is a cause.
WILL ADJUST AND SEE THE RESULT.
 





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