Inshallah Suez!
This is a post that I accidentally didn’t publish before, in Ismailia, so here it is anyway, although it isn’t in the proper order;
Tomorrow we plan to leave Ismailia for Port Suez, and are keeping our fingers crossed that the fuel problems we have had are finally behind us. Yesterday we asked for a pilot today, and put on the engine to check it, just in case. After 20 minutes working we had the same problem as in the canal- air in the engine. Since we know the tanks are full, we knew something else was wrong, and Oren got to work trying to find out what. Unfortunately, he thought that an electric fuel pump would help to prime the engine, and left it on the fuel line. Every time we got the engine working, but after a short time it kept getting air in. We cancelled the pilot and tried all kinds of permutations to find out where the leak was, and after about 7 hours work, came to the conclusion that the electric pump was leaking! So now we think everything is ok, but just in case we will have a spare jerry can of fuel ready to feed the engine by gravitation.
Meanwhile, I have managed to get some pictures up, but the internet is very slow here, so we will try again somewhere else. The pictures I have uploaded open into big pictures if you click on them.
One Response to “Inshallah Suez!”
 Comment by amos August 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm |
hi. captains |
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