Showing posts with label engine paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engine paint. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Engine stuff and paint

If you follow the blog you know I bought a used Yanmar 3JH3E 40 hp engine that had about 243 hours on it. I was able to get it for a good price due to the heat exchanger rusting out.  The overall shape of the engine is great shape. I had to save up to order the parts I needed and received them about a month ago.


 I did install the heat exchanger to use as a lifting point for doing the engine pan mock up. I recently installed all the miscellaneous pieces on the engine to see what was missing. I still need a few bolts and a hose or two.
Yesterday when I finished the mocked up pan I took off a few pieces of the engine to de-rust them and give them a new coat of paint. You can tell where the petcocks for draining water is on the engine by where the rust is. It really is not bad, but I wanted to nip it in the bud before it becomes an issue in a few years.

Here is a picture of the few pieces I took off and painted. I sanded the rust off and used Jasco to prep the metal then painted it with industrial Rustoleum in a bright silver then will spray them again with a grayer color that better matches the Yanmar color. The Yanmar dealer wanted $16 a can.....no thanks.


By the way the coupling (upper right corner) is off the propeller shaft not the engine. The engine has a torque limiter. Does anyone know if I can remove the torque limiter and put a regular coupling on instead?