I have always wanted a nice toolbox and have been working hard with that goal in mind. It's an accomplishment I'm proud of! Today. I got the final pieces to assemble, and then she'll be ready for action!

When parts are not immediately available or they are exorbitant priced, you make do with what you have! I was able to save my customers deadline for getting out of the yard on time as well as find a better quality elbow instead of just putting up with the poorly made OEM version. It was worth the effort!

Learn how to perform a comprehensive annual service on your marine diesel engine with a complete tutorial by a professional marine diesel mechanic! In this video, I demonstrate a full annual service on my personal engine, a Yanmar 3YM20 aboard my Catalina 30. I give helpful tips and tricks along the way that you can apply to servicing your own boat!

It may not be a marine engine today, but that's ok, because it's my day off and sometimes a girl needs a break from the marine world! But this girl is obsessed with old engines, so I'm never too far away from accepting the challenge of bringing an old engine back to life! I learned alot, met some wonderful friends, and had a blast too!

I traded my time and energy to being this neglected engine home. Why? Because I think we can have alot of fun with it! Let's autopsy it, see if we can bandage it, and even blow it up if we have to! If there is something you want to see with this, let me know! These broken engines can be an excellent training tool, so let's take advantage of that before sending it to the scrap yard!

Starters and other marine parts can be quite pricey sometimes - so why not attempt to fix instead! Today I teardown an $1,100 Yanmar Hitachi starter and fixed it for less than $50!

These 5 things are things that are easy to do, yet they don't seem to get done on alot of boats I work on! If you want to keep your engine happy, then make sure to check these things once in awhile!

Join me in repairing a cracked cast iron part with an old school technique called cold-stitching! This method has been around for over 100 years and very few people really practice it anymore as new technologies have come out, however there still is a time and place for it - especially when it comes to needing to make a strong crack repair in something critical!

Let's face it, if we don't have that special dealer access, we aren't allowed to buy certain specialty tools for the engines we have or want to work on. This is super frustrating - however, with a bit of ingenuity we can always make our own stuff with the materials we have! If you find yourself needing a compression adaptor for your diesel engine, find an injector and follow these steps!!

Learn how to adjust valve lash with two very methods that are handy on a variety of marine 4-stroke diesel engines that have solid lifters/tappets and pushrods. Sometimes we are unable to access the timing marks found on the flywheel or other locations due to poor access, so these two methods can be a lifesaver!

YesWelder has sent me their new Cut 55 DS Plus Plasma cutter to try out! Let's see if it's capable of keeping up with the big dogs when it comes down to cutting some metal! Today. I'm testing out how it works on 110v.

This Yanmar 2YM15 has been slowly leaking coolant. so it's time to tear things apart and see what's going on! Turns out, more is going on than originally expected, so this project was definitely worth the effort!

We are in a world surrounded with technology and the AI boom has begun to rear it's ugly face. From AI slop to the many folks who religiously follow it's advice, it has proven itself not to be reliable in many facets of life. Let's put AI to the test today to see what it can do with a marine diesel engine - it will either fall on it's face, or blow us all away!

While diagnosing a Cummins 6BTA for low power that was related to clogged fuel filters, I stumbled upon a few issues that were much worse than I expected! During the general inspection, one of the more alarming things we found was alot of metal in the coolant header tank. Let's talk about what that is. what caused it and how to avoid this kind of bad news!

In a world where we have so many choices for picking engine oil and filters, how do we determine what's best to use? I get this question alot in the field, so I wanted to make a video answering those questions about what to look for and how I make my choices about what to use to service a marine diesel engine!

Today we are mixing it up and putting our automotive hats on! Let's figure out what's going on with a Dodge/Mercedes Sprinter van that isn't running right! Automotive isn't really my forte anymore, but let's see if some good basic diagnostic skill can solve the problem, regardless of what application we're dealing with!

Join me for a Marine Mechanic Q&A while watching me attempt to custom paint my toolbox with some paint pens from Hobby Lobby! This'll be a fun one, glad to see you here!

Whether you are buying a boat or just checking things out for a refit, mechanical surveys and general inspections can do alot to fill you in on the status of a marine diesel as it sits. Every year, many folks fall in love with a boat, and end up quickly falling out of love once they discover the problems that were lurking. Today I talk about what surveys are about, why they are important and included some tips and tricks for what I'm looking for when checking out an engine for a customer! Enjoy!

Join me as we discover a new way to assess where our marine diesels stand in terms of overall cylinder health!! I will deep dive into this more and more as time progresses and I learn more! if you are interested in what JTEC has to offer in terms of blowby testing, check them out!

I get this question often so I decided to share some highlights and important tips I have learned about starting and running a business in the marine trade world!