Starting the Gardner 6LW after more than a year.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- I have an old boat of indeterminate age, since being moved to her berth in 2018 the engine hasn't been touched. Fired her up just to check she still worked before moving on to a full service.
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A Gardner will always start no matter how long it has been standing, the best diesel engines ever built!, will run forever with minimum maintenance!
Great engines will always go chax
Best Engine Ever Made , Fish Might Not Agree,
Sailed on a ship with 2 6LW generators. Super. Never any problems.
I could listen to that engine all day
I’m a Gardner fanatic ❤️
A gardner every time, great engines.
I had a boat with a Gardner best engine I ever 8 lxb had . No turbo shit, and whispering sound stationary could not hear it in the wheelhouse.
great sound, healthy sound
brilliant - véry comforting sound of a healthy diesel heartbeat !
wonderful reliable engineering with great sound
Beautiful sounding engine lovely noise
Thank you 🙏
Awesome ,cant beat that sound
Two of us used to start one every morning with the starting handle and and a short rope first pull .
It shouldn't have needed throttle with the cold start pushed in, just keep the rack latched till it picks up 👍, can't beat an LW or any Gardner for that matter
I like this sound 👍
Pretty painless for a year's lay up. Reminds me a bit of my old Volvo engine. Now I can see your boat is a bit rough around the edges. I love these engines.
Very rough around the edges, but seems to be solid enough under it all.
Reliable engines used on fairgrounds
I'm 24 and about to buy a boat to live in with this engine in it good to know
Check out Joe McCools YT channel, lots of short but excellent and very useful vids about Gardners, very useful if you ever have an issue.
@@popuptoaster thanks i wil
You won't regret buying a Gardner, nothing comes close on long life, reliability and excellent fuel economy, fishermen will tell you that any engine can get you out to sea, but a Gardner will always get you home, when turning into a strong tide and winds the Gardner digs in strong and that is great piece of mind, good luck with your project.
Ugh. Who painted it yellow? It’s no CAT 😁
What gear box do you have? (2uc 3uc twin disk) also she sound lovely
Just a bit of advise
Blow hot air into the intake. It helps them start up when sitting awhile
And the lift pump needs more presses on it so get fuel straight to the injector pump
3UC will never fit onto a 6LW
Agreed holdheartly.
Sweet
I had the same engine in my 42 foot salmon trawler that someone stole and sunk in a shipping channel what a waste
So what was in the engine to make the water go purple ?
it's just black gunk from the exhaust.
Oil
un burnt diesel in these good old engines till they warm up
Have you got a head gasket leak? steam & oil from exhaust, Not Good.
They all smoke when you start them, mine is actually pretty good, the black stuff is just crap from the wet exhaust and muddy water.
Being a boat must have a hand throttle?
It has a hand throttle and gear lever up in the wheelhouse.
why not fit a starter button instead of fannying around
It's got one up in the wheelhouse, the engine wiring in the engine room was all removed as it was unsafe. Seems like a bit of a stupid question though, you really think this is how someone would start their boat every time?
@@popuptoaster add a second starter button in the engine room. I have a bus with cab starter and engine bay starter. The engine bay starter does not enable the gearbox for safety it does however bypass all engine door and hatch safety switches. I did imagine you had one at the helm.
That engine would start after 50 years its a Gardner. A bit like a choke nawh nothing like a choke its an excess fuel button.
Which is what happens when you engage the choke on a petrol engine, it gets extra fuel and thus is a useful way of illustrating a point for most of may mates who grew up with cars with chokes. 🙄
@@popuptoaster no when you engage the choke on a car it closes the choke butterfly in the carb restricting air intake and richening the fuel air mixture, an excess fuel button on an old diesel engine allows the fuel pump rack to open more than the maximum operating range, it does not restrict the air flow on the intake but does allow the fuel pump element to charge with more fuel to be injected.
@@popuptoaster there's no arguing with some people! 😂
Us normal folk understood what you mean
When you pop the excess fuel button on any Gardner from a 1L2 up to a 6LYTi it wil allow 2-3times more fuel than the engine burns at max rpm into the cylinders for easy starting.