Fairline Fury MK2 refurb

[W.olly]

I went to work today felt sick, felt as rough as death warmed up infact, so went back to bed then got up at dinner and played out ( honestly i was not well )


So i though an easy job i pressure tested the fuel tank,

Found a of cut of 50mm bar to bung the end of the filler opening with the help of some radiator hose.

Then got my cheap tyre inflator, cut the tyre vavle adaptor off and connected that to the fuel off take. Bunged up the breather with a bit of water pipe and bar

And hey presto, lets go blow myself up as i cant measure as low as 5psi as it starts at that. so took a guess lol. Just put enough in so a little less that 5psi which will be enough for this.

1/4 filled with water so easier to see low down leaks

All fitted seem ok so now ill leave it for a few days and see if the tank gets an softer if you know what i mean, not in tension and any wet spots anywhere.

BTW, its not stainless steel, its Aluminum tank. wondered why it was so light ha ha

 

[W.olly]

I dont know how folk do it, or dont do it.

I sold a GRP boat canopy to a chap, had it sent by courier, Tuffnells. The canopy is 170cm x 115 cm x 20 xm. so not small.

They have lost it ops:, god knows how.

I bought a part rebuilt block for the next engine from Coastal Rides, last week. Buzzing as it WOULD of saved me rebuilding one i have.

I say `would` as they sent me the wrong engine. Ok some folk can make mistakes. I called them straightaway to tell them, and then had to wait two days for them to call me to say they cant find the engine block i bought.
WTF, they dont seem very professional at all.

So now i have took a gamble on a chap that has got one that was a good runner and he bought it for a few bits. Full engine for £180. so no big loss there if its as bad as the ones i have. That should be here next week.

Well today i got motivated, once i get going i am good and love it. Not like used to be when i was on it every waking spare hour, still getting there now.

Today i rebuilt another pair of carbs and started to clean and check a manifold. And another problem as the ultrasoinc cleaner is playing up and the seller still hasnt been to collect it to repair it. The month that goes by with no cock ups will be amazing.

just waiting for paint ti arrive.

Got myself a moisture ( love that word Moist dont know why ) meter to see how damp the timber is and its not to bad.

This is the bottom of the worst area. above 20% which is to much. but 6inch up and better

I have been all around the bulkheads etc except for the main as thats coming out soon once the canopy is fitted. Cut all the areas out that have readings above 10%. These will be sealed with epoxy then new ply fitted inplace.

The rest is in good order so i decided nt to rip it all out. Why make more work than needed.

That bottom timber will dry out quicker now.

small patch needed

The heads is a bit rough so ripped it all out. well it was needed, no chance on keeping that in

The lower damp left area is 6mm ply, and the rest is 6mm veneered 12mm ply.

Looks better already

Reckon ill remove and patch up these non used stopcocks.

Oh yes, another disaster a week or so ago.

I like to research all new gear i buy. Now i want a Tubela pipe bender but costly at £1200 with a couple of dies so for now i got a cheapo chinses tat. All looked good on YT videos and reviews. Yes it did a great jb for the first maybe dozen bends.

Great hey, for £100 its good.

So as the canopy is being made ( at long last after a 10 month wait ) in a few weeks i needed to make the new rails for the stern. The original wooden ones have sharp edges and make hard waring on the canopy.

so i knocked these up

I managed to bend them to keep the original mount points to save drill more holes

Sorry to say though there scrappers . The bender as said lasted maybe a dozen bends. this was while i was making the bender better as the pipe clamp needed to be smoothed out a lot to prevent it leaves dents in the tube. So these rials have a bad crease around the corners due to the die and pivot waring out.

Well P`d off i was. I hope to be getting another sent to me soon. A UK seller but from shanghai, they tried to fob me off with a 45 day wait for delivery when i got this on three days....we will see.

I have a good bit more in tomorrow so more to come

 

[W.olly]

Bit of a naff update but sat chilling with nowt to do at the minute and why not.

lets see, i have been faffing with the diesel heater and where to stick it. I was going to fit it in the engine bay at first, to get the inlets and outlets where i want them was a pain due to the main fuel tank and where to fit the fuel tank for it.
So in the end, and as it is wasted space i have fitted the heater unit under a locker in the main cabin.

Just a matter to cut out an access hatch in the base. All that area under that seat base was wasted. but for the far right has an small opening for the depth and speed transducers.

Still deciding on where to route the combustion lines, either behind the far panel you see with the single hole or trough what will be the new battery locker with the inlet for the heater ducting. .

I was lucky enough to find a bit of stainless steel in the shed to make a mount for the heater to mount to the underside of the seat locker.

Had to strip the unit down though as it is a combined heater unit that i had used for the shed.

You will see it is a 4 outlet jobby, i want a single out let at the minute so will be getting a new single outlet fitting.

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This where it will be fitting, good room for the pipe work, combustion outlet will be wrapped so temps will be take care of, as always do as i go. So i will sort that when i get to it.

Oh yes, as common sense goes my didnt kick in at first, like to make life hard i see now ha ha

I removed the table pedestal to gain easier access to te heater locker, about time, needed to see how wet the foam is under the GRP soul.

There was water in there where the post was in from the pedestal so i dried it out with a bit of sponge and i was expecting it to fill back up soon after. If water gets in it and spreads a lot then it can get there. After 7 days though no water has flowed back in. Which i can say i am happy about as i am not into removing all the soul to rip out all the foam etc etc etc.

just a matter to mark out the holes etc to fit the eater inplace and there we go.

Ah well, i drilled one hole out of line. be reat

and there we go, to bend it as it is 3mm and not got a press brake yet lol, just do a few runs with a plasma cutting disc and bend it, then another run a few mm at a time untill it gets the angle needed.

in temp situ

Tucked up high and as safe to get the combustion pipes room.

Exciting times

I have been messed about BIG time by a local so called respected canopy maker. After 11 months and being let down many times i decided to jack in waiting for him to do it. he was well priced but good, well you know.
It has cost me a bloody fortune towards the timewaster but i feel better with the new maker and saving money, paying less isnt going to get it done,
So Canvasman near Leeds. sounds very professional and the boat is all booked in ( drop off 1st September, THIS year ) , i am taking it to them to be done at is saves me £700, and they are only an hour away.

Now main job now is to sort the trailer out. When i towed the bat back when i got it a pillock pulled out in front of me and i heard a large thump/bang and then the car shunted forward. Good job i am quick as applied more break and the Shoggy stopped it with ease, thank god.

Goes to show, maintain the trailers people as this happend.

I stripped the hitch after hours of spannering/banging/cutting. To find a all bolts had seized, handbrake handle snapped. And worse still te damper had snapped, so that is what made the bang wen i braked hard.

So tonight i have ordered new damper, boot, handbrake energy store as that is seized also, and got a secondhand handbrake at a bargain £25 instead of £110. somethings work out

The jockey wheel was goosed, but i fixed that as the first thread on the worm gear was dodgy so real tight, just stripped it and got the Dremmel to clean the thread back and greased up and all good now. Another saving, which is much needed now after the canopy situation.

I have bits to do this weekend so ill be back i hope soon. Water tank to finish off, see about the new bulkhead asap. I would like to get that done before it goes away for a couple of months, but alteast when it comes home i can work under cover on the bulkhead and engine bay in time for winter.

 

[Neilj]

I do like this thread. While you're fiddling with things brake related, check out your brake shoes as well (if you've not already). The shoes with bonded linings have a habit of unbonding themselves due to corrosion / neglect and then they don't work very well

 

[W.olly]

I do like this thread. While you're fiddling with things brake related, check out your brake shoes as well (if you've not already). The shoes with bonded linings have a habit of unbonding themselves due to corrosion / neglect and then they don't work very well

yes one part at a time kida, as soon as i have fettled the hitch i will be setting all the brakes up properly and renew if needed.

The chap i bough the set up off said the brakes had been overhauled 12 months before, shame they didnt check the hitch over. Still good price i paid

counting boat funds at the minute, a lot down nowadays due to what we all find is going on. and as said the bleeding canopy situation.

Folk do my head in at times

 

[Neilj]

When you do get round to the brakes, if you find they're rotten then sit down before you see the price of shoes - £60 to £80 per hub depending on make / size.
These guys are really good and will reline your existing shoes (assuming the metal is ok), usually about £15 per shoe. They even blast and paint the metal bits too.
https://saftek.co.uk/

 

[W.olly]

When you do get round to the brakes, if you find they're rotten then sit down before you see the price of shoes - £60 to £80 per hub depending on make / size.
These guys are really good and will reline your existing shoes (assuming the metal is ok), usually about £15 per shoe. They even blast and paint the metal bits too.
https://saftek.co.uk/

nice one, thanks for that. i know the prices of stuff for these trailers so no shock but happy to save Its an SDS 3500kg, HU12 hitch. cant remember the model number. Soon be at it, maybe this weekend as it needs checking asap, well in next 8 weeks.

 

[W.olly]

Had a bit of a go today, made a change in the rain, been to warm as of late.

I have all parts ordered for the hitch, and also a set of longer studs, as you can see here some are a wee bit short.

When i got the boat/trailer seller said the brakes had been rebuilt, which happy to say they do look like it.

Front axle studs are long on both side, rear axle one side just long enough, the other side way to short. ,

front axle front wheel

Rear axle rear wheel, about 10mm short so ordered a 50mm set.

left front, right rear

Same drums/hubs on front and rear axle aswell. studs look to never of been messed with either. maybe replaced hubs in the past, who knows.

Well all looks good and moving with T yanking on the cable anyway lol.

So glad all is good, dont come cheap these parts. and tyres also are dam good.

Just gave the drums and shoes a bit of a light rub down and clean so all good to go once parts fitted and set up properly .


thats about it for today but for also making a new draw bar damper extension, as to tight to pay £30 for a bar with two holes in it lol

 

[W.olly]

Good new to me anyway, i drilled two holes in the sole of the cabin to investigate how bad the foam is under it.

I know these boats are bad for soggy soles but when i checked over this boat when i was checking over it i jumped poked prodded all over it an dit felt good. i would not of bought it otherwise as its a big job to strip a boat out and redo the sole.

Just the bottom 10mm or so is damp, not wet/soggy


stearn where it would be more wet tahn bow

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dam cant find the dug out picture but you get what i mean.

So while there faffing about i fitted the new lid to the water tank. and scrapped the front cabin walls from the old foam lined foam backing that was left. so front cabin is sort of done ready for the cosmetics.

I wanted to use new screw holes for the tank lid so marked out for new ones and used butyl tape to seal it, ill fill it in a day or so while it settles in and test it again. I forgot about the level indicator i want to fit but ill do that another time now. It be reat as it will just be a little dust getting in the tank from cutting the hole.

And the osmosis, be reat

Hopefully all sealed

Very little to scrape back, took about 15 mins We will be relining with four way stretch carpet. Just to the bottom of the windows though i think.

Found a stow away aswel tucked up in the bow lol

As i feel the front cabin is in a way sorted and all ready for cosmetics i want to sort the fuse box in the heads. I was going to move it

from here

to here around where the coat hooks are.

Near all the cables will reach aswell and there isnt much in the fuse box.

It is either move it or keep it these but fit better fuse boxs and buzz bars fitted. The porta loo mite just fit below it, i will try it out later and see.

I was going to remove the sea loo inlet/outlet, ill keep them just incase for the future, there not in the way.

sorry about the dam side on pics, not a clue whats happening there.

All in its been a good day, not much done but feel got somewhere.

 

[500e]

Not had any luck gluing in top of old glue did an Albin Vega years ago the original foam dis-bonded from the finish layer we cleaned all the foam off and 3M spray glued new looked superb all the interior wood work bulkheads out as the original under everything first hot summer at all sagged the OE glue had let go

 

[W.olly]

Not had any luck gluing in top of old glue did an Albin Vega years ago the original foam dis-bonded from the finish layer we cleaned all the foam off and 3M spray glued new looked superb all the interior wood work bulkheads out as the original under everything first hot summer at all sagged the OE glue had let go

There isnt much old adhesive left over so most will be removed, the rest is wood which i will be either laminating or fitted 4 way stretch. I have some decent foam back material here, used on modern Fairline and Princess boats which i am debating if to use.

 

[W.olly]

Disaster.....but then nah

The boat has gone to Canvasman for canopy to be made. So while its away, dam i miss it haha sad i know but the boat yard ( garden ) is not the same with out it and looks empty.
Had to get a mate to tow it for me as i STILL have not got my licence back yet. Dont ask there as they have really done my head in now after a pone call the other day.

Plan was while its away i will clean up and paint the drive, got my sand blaster and a greenhouse to get tat bit done. Just ave to see if the compressor keeps up, i tried it on a few parts and its ok but not long period. If it struggles to much ill just blast the smaller parts and use elbow grease to the drives.

Well as some mite remember i got a `good` engine from a chap who bough it for a few parts. Apparently is was rebuilt and running well. All happy as when i removed the head to check the innards etc i found new pistons in, well looked new.

I had a wee problem though as one valve lifter was sticky. i sorted that out but was concerned why it was sticking.

Today i thought ok, ill get a list of gaskets/ parts needed and get it all sorted next weekend

NOOOOOO pigin nora and all that. On closer inspection, and dont ask why i did see it sooner

What do you see ?????

wire brush out and :eek::eek::cry::cry:

I would of thought the core plugs would of gone but maybe a week spot in the block.

A little gutted but on further inspection i found the pistons are new

These are + 0.020 oversize. and as in good nick and one of the other better blocks i have the bores are .45mm smaller so i will get one skimmed and rebored. Would of homed it out but not risking it for sake of a few hundred quid and the worry when its spinning at over 4000rpm haha

Also the crankshaft is good within tolerances and clean.

So a stress to start but all ended well. But not going to give in. dam no.

Ill need to make a gear puller type tool to remove the cam drive gear to get the cam shaft out, i tried a gear puller but to big on the feet. Ill sort that easy enough though.

C Faffer

 

[dobbslc]

Shame about the block
But I have to say GET THEM PISTONS OFF THE GROUND!

 

[W.olly]

Shame about the block
But I have to say GET THEM PISTONS OFF THE GROUND!

they were not there long, there in a bath of diesel now and will be air blasted clean when needed.

 

[bert]

Best tow car

Wish I could get my boat on a trailer would make my life so much easier

 

[W.olly]

Best tow car

Wish I could get my boat on a trailer would make my life so much easier

Not my tow car i had a Shogun 3.2DiD when i picked the boat up and was great. Cant decide when i can if to get another Shogun or a Discovery TDV6, landrovers are bad though for problems, way to many.

 

[bert]

I'd recommend a landcruiser 90 series for towing. Mines a D4D and feels a bit low powered by comparison to a newer model but it just keeps going and going

 

[W.olly]

As there was a few on here interested in this build i thought only right to tell you.

For some time now, well over a year i have lost motivation for this boat and life itself, as in not wanting to top myself again. I have had little time and patience for much. So its time to give in before i get to far in the negative in fiances with it.

I have put it up for sale so as soon as its gone we will be looking for an early Swift Kontiki motorhome ready to go with the funds, hope it doesnt take long, and not best time of year to sell this kind of stuff , Always loved them Kontiki`s, this way i can get away quicker and less stress ans start to enjoy stuff again and become my jolly self i used to be and stress free as i was.

I will get another smaller boat like a Bowrider or small sports cruiser maybe, found a couple just to far.

So sorry to say tara

 

[DuncanCallum]

Do what makes you happy mate.

It's a hobby, if there's no joy it's a poor way to spend your time.

 

[fixedfixer]

Thanks for sharing the various builds and projects, I’ve no doubt any Swift Kontiki will be ‘personalised’