Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Yanmar spares service and prices in South Africa

This is a starter motor off a Yanmar GM10 diesel engine. The engine is about sixteen years old but used as a back up power unit, both 12 volts DC and 220 volts AC, it has done no more than 450 hours or so.
The make of the starter is Hitachi, the model number of the starter motor is S114-303, I see no sign of a number on the solenoid but a USA site gives me AHSH16010 and a price in the USA of just U$12.33, which will now be R151.00 plus our local Vat @ 14%.
The starter motor is fine, the solenoid is faulty and knowing that a service shop will charge by the hour plus the parts I though it may be best just to buy a new solenoid?
The agents are Seascape ( ex IMS) near Cape Town, on phoning them I am told that the solenoid is not offered as a spare part, I must buy the complete unit, even before I asked the price I thought this to be bad news and in fact very poor service from the main importers into South Africa.
Here the complete starter motor and its solenoid costs R8658.00 plus Vat at 14% which will add R1212.12, giving a total of R9870.12 !!! which is U$805.72 at the very poor exchange rate to the U$ we have right now.
So why do I find that in the USA prices for the starter motor and solenoid start around U$67.00 and up to U$97.00 ( estimate average ) we are poorly served here I think?
So in South Africa we pay U$805.72 and in the USA U$97.00 , read that again, these prices are shocking and just do not add up, or is there a huge import surcharge we know nothing about?
Found today and on Amazon.com
New STARTER FITS Yanmar Marine Diesel 1gm
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Roy
Using some motor trade friends I was able to locate the correct 12 volt solenoid, the cost was R250 and that included 14% Vat (tax) so before tax I paid around U$17.90, which is fine by me, so why do the Yanmar agents not stock them I ask?
Bad service?

The starter motor is now at a well known auto electritians for a full service, brushes etc, before being refitted and back into use.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
A day at the races and Coventry Climax 08 02 2014
The best money we can ever spend is to support the WPMC each year so they can afford to host the event.
http://www.wpmc.co.za/
I drove my Hillman Imp to second place in the Argus Group series car, in the same event but that was forty two years back!
Roy
Friday, March 10, 2017
Yanmar GM10 diesel engine refuses to crank over and start
www.crusisersforum.com
for hosting and posting the many stories on the problem with Yanmar engine starting.
Note, 24 hours later and the hammer was required again, its time to remove the starter and service the solenoid I think.
Then the next three days and the engine cranked and started on the button each time so maybe not?
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
B and G Auto Pilot and Network controls and repeaters
Please contact me for details and prices etc. shipping World wide is fine.





ACP1, still one of the best pilots made.
Contact me for info.
Please note I do not have spare MHU ( mast head units) they can be bought from the agents.
All of the systems shown can be serviced when required by the B&G service agents.
Roy
Thursday, January 26, 2017
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Front deck and side lockers

Making some progress on the decks and side lockers. Using John Brooks advice in specifications, I used a sheet of fabric to measure out the deck. I managed - just to get both sides of of one 8 x 4 sheet of 3/8" ply. In doing so, I had to shorten the side deck panel by about 1", which will simply mean that the Sapele solid deck will need to come forward by an extra 1" - no issue there.
While I used the manufacturers straight edge, when I cam to laying the two sides on the deck, for some reason which I haven't been able to establish, they did not site together seamlessly, so I had to plane a little off to get a better fit. I don't imagine it will be a problem, as the deck will be covered in Dynel and epoxy, so a gap of 1 mm should get filled up quite easily.
I dry fitted the deck with 8 by 1" bronze screws. I must have used 50 or 60 screws in the process - 2 of which broke in the deck beams, despite setting the torque on th electrc screw driver at a low setting.
Here you can see the deck before it was screwed to the beams and the edges cleaned off with a flush trim router cutter.
Next I moved onto shaping and fitting the side lockers. John Brooks provides a full sized pattern in his plans for one of the locker sides. So I made a template from this and used this to spile an exact copy for all four sides of the lockers. However, this caused some head scratching, as the locker sides are fitted at stations 8 & 10 and these have slightly different hull profiles. This resulted in the locker sides running out of alignment, so I had to do quite a bit of refining. The next picture shows how the aft locker side is higher than the front, which would have cased the seat to run off level, unless lines to the aft bulkhead were checked. Sounds obvious, but anytime I have deviated from John's plans I have subsequently found this to be at my cost...hopefully I have it right this time. Once again a quick email response from John satisfied my doubts.
Next I started to create the V notches in the side locker panel. Based on a suggestion over on the BuildingGlued LapStrake Yahoo groups of using a jig on the router base, I made a simple base with a plastic strip guide. This worked quite well, though with some refinement could be better...ideally longer.

Here you can see the base of the jig attached to a small router and the
resulting grooves cut into the side panel.

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