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La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

May 18, 2023 | Blog, Cool Boats, Mainland, Mexico, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Hola, La Cruz The warm smell of fire and jungle wafted through the cabin as the rising sun painted our interior...

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Being able to spend an entire month in my hometown of Santa Cruz was wonderful, which is why leaving was so bittersweet. But before we cast off again Chris left us for Hollywood and Cleo and I (okay, just I) were left to tend to Avocet's to-do list. When Chris returned we got some biking in and learned more about Santa Cruz's bike history culture.

Huge thanks to my family, to Ariel for the interview, and to Austin for showing us the trail.

Chapters:
0:00 - 0:55 He Left Us... With a To-Do list.
0:56 - 2:35 Oiling the Bulwark
2:36 - 3:08 Swabbing the Decks
3:09 - 4:00 Chris has been gone a while....
4:01 - 10:17 Mountain Biking!
10:17 - 14:15 The Last Moments.
14:16 - 14:42 SV Prism Shout Out 😉
14:42 - 15:46 NEXT on Sailing Avocet (Our Engine Runsaway!)

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Sometimes I try to keep up with the trends. This o

Sometimes I try to keep up with the trends. This one’s a bit late, but fitting for the recent happenings aboard Avocet 😂 Still mind boggling that the root of our problems all THREE times has been the high pressure fuel pump - it truly is the problem 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just a little jump back in time to when we first l

Just a little jump back in time to when we first learned we wern’t totally up 💩‘a creek but instead, as @svprism said on the phone, we were in p!ss poor puddle 🫠 So here are the first few moments of the engine dissasembally - oh how far we have come!

We removed half our table to make room for our eng

We removed half our table to make room for our engine. Luckily with Avocet’s layout, the engine didn’t get in the way of our daily life it just cluttered one specific area of the cabin. With the engine in an open area Chris was able to dig in and assess what the heck was going on soon realizing just what we were in for. Despite learning the culprit of our issues was once again the high pressure fuel pump, it was in our best interest to do a FULL diagnosis on the engine which included: removing the bell housing, flywheel, adapter plate, rear main seal, timing cover, timing gears, timing plate, and at that point the last thing to do was remove the sump to investigate the lower end. With the sump removed Chris took out the oil pump, main bearing cap, and connecting Rod cap for a plastiguage test to assess the condition of our main bearings, crank shaft and connecting rod bearings.

I know - sounds like a mouthful. To sum up the above: the engine was in pieces, and Chris was determined to put it back together, better than ever before. After Chris’s thorough investigation he felt confident in bringing our engine back to life - it would just take a little patience, and a whole lot of third party induced frustration. But I’ll save that story for later.

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