Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Yanmar debacle

Today did not go so well. I bought the service manual. I bought the parts catalog. And then I bought the parts. There is nothing in the Yanmar 4JH4-HTE service manual that says to replace the water pump I need to remove the engine mount! What kind of bogus service manual is that? What kind of design is that. Some engineers in Japan should be fired! Remove the engine mount to change the water pump? I guess they must believe that their water pump (made by Johnson in Sweden) will last longer than the engine, or that engine mounts are easily removed (I was advised to unbolt it from the stringer to avoid changing the alignment)?

Unbelievable!