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and on Welcome to the sailing vessel Seeker this week's job is to take the wiggle out of
our transfer case and this beefy bracket which connects to three of my cross member frames
replaces this little wobbly thing so that's part of it up here it was kind of doing this twisting
thing about an eighth inch of a movement so that was way too much and the other part of
the problem is it was loosening up the bolts that we mounted with down here at the bottom
this is big angle iron frame that we welded into the frames of the boat and then we built this
bracket that bolts into the transfer case here but these bolts keep loosening up and they're
in holes that go all the way through into the casing when they loosen up they start oozing
oil out too we've actually had a fall way out so we're going to take the transfer case out
now that I got the top brace done and just weld that bracket to the transfer case because that
bracket is bolted into the frames here on the floor so we still can remove it
we just will make it part of the transfer case probably gonna have to take all this
gear and stuff out too because this is cast iron we're gonna have to preheat this so I'll
be back when I got this Beast back out screw this to the bottom of that so it'll catch the
center right yeah that'll work we're trying to keep our drawers from sliding out when we heal
20 degrees a little wood latch is just not enough so we're adding a little metal to it
Sunrise looks just like Sunset did
it comes off there again I think it's going to be in pieces bolts went in first and they got welded
in and that preheated the casting at 200 so I didn't even bother with the torch or some welding
it was well over 300 it's 360 350 right now and I don't even know this is really a cast iron
because when I grind it it Sparks just like steel it doesn't have that you know that secondary spark
thing that cast iron does so I'm not sure but it sure welded fine I think our troubles are over at
least with it coming loose it just got a little smoky in here this morning's project is clean
up put it back together and paint it day well Ron is installing a new plug outlet for the pump down
here so we switched to 110 volt pump which really is nice I tell you what bigger more powerful I
like it it's the pump that uh that throws out the water from the sink in the shower how's it going
boss all right it's a little slow no slows all right we're not in any rush just give me a light
bulb put it in your teeth yeah all right stick my hand up I'll be the new Statue of Mr Liberty all
right she's all back together and ready for some more testing the oils in levels around
right I changed that hose down there I put a ball valve in instead that way it lets them
level out a little more faster I wouldn't using the needle valve so yeah and I'm not gonna put
my air compressor over here so I brought the drain out this direction too so it has more
room so you know I always make a few tweaks you never know get better every time forward
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level see the vibration and uh being lazy I didn't want
to go up down that ladder 40 times again today
okay well I'm high there and I'm full there so I don't trust it I
think it's airing houses you can see a bit of problem s
so I'm going to move that sight glass it just doesn't make sense that it's
full on both ends I loosen this up now it pours oil out where the indicator was
too so yeah there's something about the bearing in here that keeps the
indicator wrong over there so we'll move it to this side being nice now
I mean that was the whole problem
okay do another test run tomorrow wow there's a site what a gorgeous evening
okay we got some tourists coming by but man I look down the water oh he's gone huge fish
down there I mean he was like three and a half feet long oh no there he is he's right beside
the rudder see that shadow that is not part of my boat that is a fish that is a big fish
I wonder what he is right down at the bottom that's probably fine there but I can go down
and tweak those needle valves we're getting closer each time I do that Rod's damn easy you just put a
waypoint out there and tell it to navigate and it steers right to your point it overshots seriously
but I think that's a shooting issue I got to get in there and tweak it some unless it's like a PDI
and it learns on its own I haven't read that part of the manual remember that I don't read manuals
yeah I do need to turn it down it's a little sensitive it's trying to hold that line just
spot on you know I really wouldn't care if it's that far off the blue line is
the heading of the boat and that right there is our Waypoint so it's a little off
23 degrees on the rotor look at her swing
man I love my Rudder system I love my autopilot I used to have some things
you built that work even if it's a birdhouse guys you gotta get on it
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level's good but look at that air going up it too so making
bubbles it's gonna be throwing a lot of oil around in there
temperatures come up about 130 135 maybe we've been running a little under two hours I think at
five and a half knots so I think it's good well then I went all cockeyed again it didn't like
1600 RPM and drained the oil out of the transfer case put it all in the hoodie shed [ __ ] well
I'm gonna be looking for some other solution maybe a maybe a float valve it's not a lot of pressure
we'll think about that wonder why decides to change his mind all of a sudden
first air bubbles and then drained it well you know what I was messing with the pitch not a lot
just a little bit but that's the change I didn't like when I uh divert the oil for actual using
the under shed so that means that I could get it set up for cruising and just leave the pitch
alone for a while okay there was oil coming back now so now we have a oil distribution problem I
think the mouth problem is fine but the oil distribution problem is the next one to solve
if I leave the pitch alone I think it's it's okay but I'm not going to leave the pitch alone I can
close the needle valve down all the way to the understead and it's got to be sending oil up to
the transfer case that needle valve is all the way open but yet it's not catching up with how much
oil is being sucked out of it I had a needle valve down below to stop that from happening
oh I can close the shutoff valve [ __ ] yeah let me go try to do that
okay we're at idle that ball valve down there is closed so it's not sucking any of the oil
out of the transfer case look at that oil level it's real low still so it's not being
fed over from the bypass of course the engine is designing the power steering pump not doing much
here's an interesting sight that ship over there has a big ass crane on it and those little pyramid
looking things on the back there those are artificial reefs so that's cool you know it
makes me wonder if we're not passing up a lot of opportunities to make artificial reefs just
because you know there's some pollutants on what we could throw in you know take for example an old
pickup truck or a car you know take the battery out empty the oil out and toss it in you're going
to do a little environmental damage because there's going to be something that comes off
of it that kills something but overall you know for the next 15 20 years and the reef that builds
up on top of it I think the net gain is probably worth it 'd be an interesting project wouldn't it
did it let me let you hear me I made this long video last night describing the problem with
getting the fluid that balance out here and with my ideas we're adding a little race car
a circulation pump and maybe a valve or two more and then you know what I posted that up
and somebody got it faster than I did because they were commenting at the same time I did
with a new idea that was Philip on the Facebook group and his idea was to use a pressure relief
valve but I don't have one around but I did of course have a needle valve I've actually taken
more parts out than I put in on this time so now what it does you know pressure comes in on
this line it hits a t it goes up and we can use a needle valve to control how much goes over to the
transfer case that means we have a consistent not pressure consistent but at least there's always
oil available to send there now I might put a float switch over here on the transfer case and
a solenoid valve here so that when that needs fluid would it would open that solenoid valve
up and since I'm over to share that's a whole lot cheaper than the oil circulation pump and
I actually have the solenoid on board the boat so this thing you just open up that much and
with the pressure that's made off the power steering pump it feeds it over now the rest
of the oil this does this normal thing it goes on down and hits a pressure relief valve that
sends a bypass over just dumps it into the top or it sends it through that bottom pipe there
into the the coupler over the wunderstood so yeah at least we can be sure of getting oil up
here now we're just going to be see what it does I know the test runs fuel on engine on
yeah so far she's doing really good man is there a lot of boats out today I think the
Blue Angels are doing something it's just a Non-Stop stream of motor boats coming out of
there Big Lagoon Yacht Club is holding sailing classes today I think that speak coming out say
hello all right George I think we got it and I tweaked the needle valve a little
bit it certainly makes a difference but I can mess with the uh the pitch and the
throttle and it doesn't seem to have more than a quarter inch effect on it so yeah I like that
okay yeah that oil is perfect and the mount is in great shape and very little vibration
I think we got it well that is just fantastic and you know big thanks to uh Dallas at Big D
4x4 in Tulsa Oklahoma for donating the transfer case and uh Andrew McDonald see him on YouTube
it's andrew.mcdonald dot on YouTube and uh he's got a fantastic project going on but it was his
idea to use the transfer case I was just going to cut down the diameter of the propeller to get the
shaft uh speed up and also the engine RPM up to a better range Handycam for this transfer case idea
and you know before that there's the automatic transmission and uh for you guys out there that
drive dirt track cars is that a put a torque converter Eliminator in that thing it's like
I didn't even know they existed but a torque converter Eliminator got rid of the torque
converter the heat problems went away the slip went away so we had you know a higher speed RPM
off the drive shaft now we slowed it back down we have a lot of torque in the right speed of
the shaft for the propeller size we got and it's working out beautifully you know who to know that
you could get a school bus engine and with the automatic transmission behind it and a torque
converter case out of a four-wheel drive system and put it all together and make a functional
system and thanks to Philip for the last idea about the plumbing on the the oil transfer now
we've got you know oil that's not only cool but filtered in both units yeah that is fantastic
it really is and you know I'm listening to a book right now it's called Deep Survival and
in it there's a quote uh from a Buddhist guy uh Sunray you Suzuki and it says in The Beginner's
mind there are many possibilities and the expert's mind there are few and that just sums it up you
know I've had experts and you know I listen to The Experts they're you know they're not worthless but
you know a lot of times they have their reputation to protect so they're going to tell you oh you
need to buy a a twin disc system for that or a v Drive I don't have money for that stuff it ain't
cheap you know but this stuff this stuff is cheap and so we've gotten by with creativity and that's
what it's all about all these possibilities you know so go out to your shop spend some time and
let those creative Juices Flow you know and you listen to the experts but don't worry too much
about what they said you know remember the Wright brothers were told that it would never work by the
experts okay so yeah they listen to them but don't pay too much heat if you've got a creative idea
go out there and explore with it you'll learn and you'll get new ideas from that and that is really
where I know life is lived well otherwise you're just following what somebody else tells you to do
which is good if you want to be a living don't be a living be creative Sanrio Suzuki in The
Beginner's mind there are many possibilities and the expert's mind there are a few
when you get that thing done send us a picture of it we want to see it what'd you make today
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