Excellent episode! It's great to see y'all interacting with each other. I have never enjoyed watching someone learn how to change the oil in an engine more than this, go Mo! Loved it all! Steady on mateys...
I have the same good old reliable Perkins engine as you have Drake, what I don’t have is your great set up for changing the oil! Remote filters, electric sump pump! What luxury! Well done.
11:23 I love those Monique solutions... which I am actually going to use the next time I change the oil in my car but with a LOT less oil, haha. Thanks Monique, hope you are having a great day !
Brilliant, glad I could help. Honestly, it's just so much easier than trying to gauge how much oil to pour in...especially while perched on the batteries and hovering over the engine. (✿◠‿◠) ⚓-Monique
5:00 one of my favorite tricks (possibly less useful on Paragon than some places, which mount filters sideways or something) is to position a pan under the filter and then punch a hole in the top then bottom of the filter to drain it separately. It's *slightly* messier than a perfectly vertical filter, but it means mistakes with handling a full filter are less disastrous and it's way more controllable than old oil running out the side of the gasket or down a mounting while unscrewing the old filter.
yep good episode i have a 4 236 derivative engine mazda perkins tl35tii in a land rover, as a mechanic/engineer i reckon a 100 hour change regime is costing you a lot of money, good for the motor but you could double it to 200hrs and use 10w40 oil easier to find than sae30 just make sure its marked diesel /gasoil, i would also keep the last changed batch until the next change so you have sacrificial oil in case of a problem, filter doesn't need need changing every time, i have done over 120 000 hard miles on one of those engines ( still going strong)
Mo did such a neat and tidy job on the oil change, and Eanna, well he got lucky with the water hose. That would have been very tiresome doing it 5 gallons at a time. Great video as usual. Thanks for the videos!!!
Would love a photo or two of exactly where you tap into the coolant for your hot water tank. We have the same engine but have had various experts tell me different things. I am pretty sure our 4-236’s are about the same vintage. I do also like your remote oil filter setup. If mine was not so easy to get to I would put in a remote. We hope to visit Greenland in about two years as we make our way towards the NW passage back to Alaska. Enjoy.
Thanks Drake and Crew .... nice set-up you have to pull the oil out! large engine room too! ....interested in the positioning of your 'jerry cans' positioning on the outside of the rail. have you experienced any difficulties before?
Thanks Simon. I like having the jerry cans on top of the bulkwark/caprail to keep them off the deck. This way they're not in the way when I need to run from the cockpit to the bowsprit. But difficulties, yes, just once. I was hove to offshore for 3 days of heavy weather (55-60 knot winds). A wave dislodged one of the jerry cans. It was still attached to the boat with a line tied to the jerry can handle and the other end tied to the stanchion. It just kept bashing against the topsides with such force that I knew I had to do something. It was difficult, dangerous, and scary for me to crawl up there to deal with it. And it was too risky for me to get the jerry can back on deck so I ended up having to cut the line and let the can go. I've since improved the design for securing them think they should hold through the next storm.
@@psystealth I used a stainless steel u bolt like this: www.s3i.co.uk/ubolt.php I drilled 2 holes in the board for each u bolt, securing the board between the SS plates.
Drake, great video! I have the same motor as you but I noticed a remote location for your oil filter. Can you give me information on that setup so I can incorporate on mine. It would be very useful and less messy than the horizontal setup that I have on my engine. Thanks in advance! John
Hi John, thanks. If you send me an email to drakeparagon@gmail.com then I can send you some photos of how the oil filter is connected on our Perkins 4-236. The boat came with this set up when I bought it, but maybe I can find a part # for you. - Drake
Hi, you wouldn’t happen to know how tall the engine is from sump to highest point? I’m considering swapping out my Chrysler lm318 for the Perkins but I’m concerned it may be to tall.
I found this online: Size and Weight Measuring from the end of the engine to the end of the flywheel housing, the length of the engine is 117.28 inches while the overall width is 39.22 inches. It has a total height that measures out to 58.04 inches. itstillruns.com/specifications-perkins-4236-engines-7605019.html
This is probably a stupid question since most of the boats have it laid out that way and there must be a reason for it, but Isn't it unsanitary/dangerous to have the water fill on deck level, with all the fragments of dirt, bird feces, diesel etc. getting washed into the tank when filling it up?
I have always thought the same. Why have the fills for water and diesel right on the deck where it is more likely that contaminants might go down the hole when you're filling? I've always thought that someday I might relocate our water and diesel fills to a vertical bulkhead inside of the cockpit enclosure. - Drake
Hi Christopher, Paragon carries a total of 210 gallons of fresh water, which we've always found adequate for the duration of our offshore voyage legs for 2-4 people. It's also been enough to last in between places where we can water the boat when we are sailing coastal. We actually do have a big water maker installed in our engine room, but I've always just kept it pickled and not used it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of always running it. Of course I can imagine scenarios where we would prefer to have a water maker operating, but so far (in my 26 years of full time year round living aboard and voyaging all over the world) I haven't found myself in that situation. Maybe someday. :) - Drake
@22:33 PROTIP: for signs like this in a foreign language, use Google Translate on your phone and click the camera icon. Google will translate it and often it will also identify the source language. It not only works in real life, but when watching RUclips videos. So I stopped your videos at 22:33 and google translate converted the instructions on the washer to English
Unfortunately at the time we did not have a smart phone...or even a dumb phone. No phone at all in fact. However, we've remedied that situation and I have since used that translate app you mention and it's AMAZING! Like seriously the best thing ever. We were in Portugal and it helped me SO MUCH in the grocery store...I was able to figure everything out. -M
Excellent episode! It's great to see y'all interacting with each other. I have never enjoyed watching someone learn how to change the oil in an engine more than this, go Mo! Loved it all! Steady on mateys...
Thanks Mark!
I have the same good old reliable Perkins engine as you have Drake, what I don’t have is your great set up for changing the oil! Remote filters, electric sump pump! What luxury! Well done.
11:23 I love those Monique solutions... which I am actually going to use the next time I change the oil in my car but with a LOT less oil, haha. Thanks Monique, hope you are having a great day !
Brilliant, glad I could help. Honestly, it's just so much easier than trying to gauge how much oil to pour in...especially while perched on the batteries and hovering over the engine. (✿◠‿◠) ⚓-Monique
You guys make day to day stuff soooo interesting!I’m hooked!
I always look forward to your videos
Thank you Frank!
5:00 one of my favorite tricks (possibly less useful on Paragon than some places, which mount filters sideways or something) is to position a pan under the filter and then punch a hole in the top then bottom of the filter to drain it separately. It's *slightly* messier than a perfectly vertical filter, but it means mistakes with handling a full filter are less disastrous and it's way more controllable than old oil running out the side of the gasket or down a mounting while unscrewing the old filter.
yep good episode i have a 4 236 derivative engine mazda perkins tl35tii in a land rover, as a mechanic/engineer i reckon a 100 hour change regime is costing you a lot of money, good for the motor but you could double it to 200hrs and use 10w40 oil easier to find than sae30 just make sure its marked diesel /gasoil, i would also keep the last changed batch until the next change so you have sacrificial oil in case of a problem, filter doesn't need need changing every time, i have done over 120 000 hard miles on one of those engines ( still going strong)
It went from bleak to arduous to easy HAHA Seems to be a theme in Greenland.
Eanna handled that big water hose like he'd been doing it for a lifetime.
You might be giving Mo a raise in the near future !
Very important that Monique learns stuff like this. Good job Monique. Especially when you passed drake the empty container :-)
Changed the oil in a 248 many times ,, love those Perkins,, so simple,, unbreakable ,,
Mo did such a neat and tidy job on the oil change, and Eanna, well he got lucky with the water hose. That would have been very tiresome doing it 5 gallons at a time. Great video as usual. Thanks for the videos!!!
Cool video. Thanks muchly.
Would love a photo or two of exactly where you tap into the coolant for your hot water tank. We have the same engine but have had various experts tell me different things. I am pretty sure our 4-236’s are about the same vintage. I do also like your remote oil filter setup. If mine was not so easy to get to I would put in a remote. We hope to visit Greenland in about two years as we make our way towards the NW passage back to Alaska. Enjoy.
That was pretty cool and the mighty Mo gets shit done right!
Nena
California
Don’t drink yellow water, and don’t eat yellow snow.😎
"....'cause you're dead?????"
so funny!
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Pretty impressive to have an engine room on such a small boat.
It really is a pretty fantastic engine room that requires a minimum of boat yoga to get stuff done. (✿◠‿◠) ⚓-Monique
Can’t wait for the next video
Morning..eating at Lee's. Best breakfast anywhere.
Look for a collapsible child jogger, very handy for loads to and from laundry, groceries, water jugs etc. Handy cheap tip
Thanks Drake and Crew .... nice set-up you have to pull the oil out! large engine room too! ....interested in the positioning of your 'jerry cans' positioning on the outside of the rail. have you experienced any difficulties before?
Thanks Simon. I like having the jerry cans on top of the bulkwark/caprail to keep them off the deck. This way they're not in the way when I need to run from the cockpit to the bowsprit. But difficulties, yes, just once. I was hove to offshore for 3 days of heavy weather (55-60 knot winds). A wave dislodged one of the jerry cans. It was still attached to the boat with a line tied to the jerry can handle and the other end tied to the stanchion. It just kept bashing against the topsides with such force that I knew I had to do something. It was difficult, dangerous, and scary for me to crawl up there to deal with it. And it was too risky for me to get the jerry can back on deck so I ended up having to cut the line and let the can go. I've since improved the design for securing them think they should hold through the next storm.
Drake, yes i looked and was wondering how you secured the board to the stanchions?
@@psystealth I used a stainless steel u bolt like this: www.s3i.co.uk/ubolt.php I drilled 2 holes in the board for each u bolt, securing the board between the SS plates.
Drake, great video! I have the same motor as you but I noticed a remote location for your oil filter. Can you give me information on that setup so I can incorporate on mine. It would be very useful and less messy than the horizontal setup that I have on my engine. Thanks in advance! John
Hi John, thanks. If you send me an email to drakeparagon@gmail.com then I can send you some photos of how the oil filter is connected on our Perkins 4-236. The boat came with this set up when I bought it, but maybe I can find a part # for you.
- Drake
Thank you all 👏👍🙏🏻⚓️
Thanks Sadre, glad you liked it! (✿◠‿◠) ⚓-Monique
Hi, you wouldn’t happen to know how tall the engine is from sump to highest point? I’m considering swapping out my Chrysler lm318 for the Perkins but I’m concerned it may be to tall.
I found this online: Size and Weight
Measuring from the end of the engine to the end of the flywheel housing, the length of the engine is 117.28 inches while the overall width is 39.22 inches. It has a total height that measures out to 58.04 inches. itstillruns.com/specifications-perkins-4236-engines-7605019.html
DrakeParagon your a legend, that means it will fit my application :-)
Now open " Monique's Boat Shop" with oil change our specialty! Good job Monique. Something about a woman mechanic...….
This is probably a stupid question since most of the boats have it laid out that way and there must be a reason for it, but Isn't it unsanitary/dangerous to have the water fill on deck level, with all the fragments of dirt, bird feces, diesel etc. getting washed into the tank when filling it up?
I have always thought the same. Why have the fills for water and diesel right on the deck where it is more likely that contaminants might go down the hole when you're filling? I've always thought that someday I might relocate our water and diesel fills to a vertical bulkhead inside of the cockpit enclosure. - Drake
Next, Mo will rebuild the engine. 😜✌️👍
Ha! I think Drake would just settle for me changing the oil a little more frequently than I do. 😉 ⚓-Monique
The spinning machine is called an extractor
Tim Gelder In uk it’s called A spin drier
Oh my, that rather sounds like a medieval torture device...
Where I am at SEATTLE there is a big buzz for onboard water makers ,, you get along without one? Is it reasonable ? Or do you regret no water maker?
Hi Christopher, Paragon carries a total of 210 gallons of fresh water, which we've always found adequate for the duration of our offshore voyage legs for 2-4 people. It's also been enough to last in between places where we can water the boat when we are sailing coastal. We actually do have a big water maker installed in our engine room, but I've always just kept it pickled and not used it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of always running it. Of course I can imagine scenarios where we would prefer to have a water maker operating, but so far (in my 26 years of full time year round living aboard and voyaging all over the world) I haven't found myself in that situation. Maybe someday. :) - Drake
@22:33 PROTIP: for signs like this in a foreign language, use Google Translate on your phone and click the camera icon. Google will translate it and often it will also identify the source language.
It not only works in real life, but when watching RUclips videos. So I stopped your videos at 22:33 and google translate converted the instructions on the washer to English
Unfortunately at the time we did not have a smart phone...or even a dumb phone. No phone at all in fact. However, we've remedied that situation and I have since used that translate app you mention and it's AMAZING! Like seriously the best thing ever. We were in Portugal and it helped me SO MUCH in the grocery store...I was able to figure everything out. -M
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