Every year, thus far, there's an issue with our marine diesel engine that I have to troubleshoot.
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Every year, thus far, there's an issue with our marine diesel engine that I have to troubleshoot. This year's issue was a raw water pump leak, but not just any kind, water was coming out of the weeping hole, indicating that the pump shaft seal was bad.
Getting the shaft out of the body of the pump was effing hard, I had to borrow tools to do it. After prying it apart, I thought that I could just take the seal out and replace it and that'd be it, but then I saw that the shaft was kinda scarred, and one of the bearings looked like shit >_>... aaaand I somehow broke a circlip and now 1/2 of it is stuck in the body of the pump(improvised a tool to get it out, that was a BAD idea...).
I was not expecting to have to rebuild this damn thing. Never. Effing. Easy.
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On the upside, i now have a pretty good understanding of how the pump works and how it can fail XD....
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