With our Ford Lehman Super 135, and our Westerbeke 5kW Generator, there are quite a few maintenance items that are required to keep our Marine Trader afloat and in good condition. Today we walk you though the reasoning and an example of what our main scheduled maintenance looks like! We focus on fuel, oil, and water as we go through a fuel filter change, oil change, and an impeller change. We wished we knew this when we first bought Pivot so we hope that you also gain some knowledge or at least help add different maintenance items to our list!
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Cheers from the Loop,
Jennifer and Elliot
#greatloop #boatlife #lehman #westerbeke
🎥 Episode 200 | Filmed on February 25, 2022
🇺🇸 America's Great Loop | Marathon, Florida
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:20 What is in our Engine Compartment
01:28 The focus for maintenance
01:34 Starting the Fuel maintenance
02:17 Westerbeke Primary Fuel Filter
02:59 Lehman Primary Fuel Filter
03:14 Lehman Secondary Fuel Filter
04:42 Bleeding our Ford Lehman and the Westerbeke
05:15 Testing the Ford Lehman Fuel Filter Change
6:00 Testing the Westerbeke Fuel Filter Change
06:53 Starting the Oil Maintenance
07:58 Ford Lehman Oil Change
08:22 Velvet Drive Transmission Oil Change
08:27 Westerbeke Oil Change
08:36 Our Oil Maintenance Schedule
09:05 Starting the Cooling System Maintenance
10:06 Ford Lehman Zinc Change
10:36 Ford Lehman Impeller Change
11:06 Westerbeke Impeller Change
11:24 Final Systems Test
11:51 Testing the Generator
12:22 Testing the Main Engine
12:35 Final Thoughts
13:15 Bloops
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Hi! We are high school sweethearts from Atlanta, Georgia who decided to take a year off to travel around the world. Together we decided to create vlogs for our journey as a fun way to remember it. On September 15, 2019, we left Atlanta with 3 bags, 2 one-way tickets, and 1 goal of traveling for a whole year. Little did we know, 6 months later we would find ourselves in a nationwide lockdown in India. After spending 5 months in India, we came back to the United States and decided to purchase a 34’ Trawler, dive head first into boat life, and kick off America’s Great Loop.
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