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[jmayton]

At my age I don't get a chance to use them as often anymore, so when they go missing I don't notice as soon as I might have when I was younger. Of course, I wouldn't mind noticing more often if I could find the right shipmate to help me keep track of their whereabouts.

[WanderingStar]

The 4-107 does shake things loose. I routinely tighten the injector nuts, or they'll leak.

[jmayton]

Well mates, I spent the night on the boat this past Thrusday, and got to work on the engine early Friday morning. Removed the sliding panels on the stb. side of the engine space and got down on my knees and prayed, then looked about in the bilge for my nuts. No blessing there. So with wrench in hand I removed one of the remaining nuts and its locking washer, being very careful not to drop them in the bilge. Then I removed the wires from the sensing unit, which is also on the stb. side of the engine and unscrewed the part from the engine. No gasket seemed to be in place so I examined the unit and saw that it had a shaft with a slot near the lower end and that the insides were oily. Likewise, the unit had a relatively fine thread for screwing the thing in which explained why it took such a long time to twist it out. Anyhow, I wraped the nut, washer, and unit up in a piece of oil diaper, put them in my jacket pocket and headed up to my car. I had checked the internet and found a diesel repair place that worked on Perkins just two miles from the boat, so I headed that way, stopping at the Waffle House for breakfast. At Coastal Diesel they found me a half dozen nuts and washers the size I needed, but the parts fellow was unable to find a repalcement for, what they thought was an RPM senser, any where. Perkins no longer makes them, it seems. The RPM function seemed to work on our trip up the coast, so I'll just reinstall it with a brass washer under it and see if that stops the leak. Getting back to the boat I put on the nuts and washer and scewed in the unit but I didn't have a wrench that would fit so I couldn't crank down on it more than what my old hands were able to do. I'll have to finish up next weekend when I bring my other tools down to boat. I'm still at a loss to find out where the zinks are located on this engine which is very worrisome because I'm in a Marina and plugged up to shore power.