Engine Work - AND A HUGE THANK YOU!

Thank you to all of our friends who helped in making the rebuild occur.

This was a team effort to say the least. Thank you to the following people:

• Mick for getting us to safety and for his guidance on our rebuild task. His decision making is why we were not run-down by any number of towboats.

• Joe for giving us a place to work, loaning tools, and for making Memphis awesome.

• Ina and Jeff for their morale support and offer to assist.

• Ed and Steve for volunteering to road-trip from Wisconsin to Memphis with parts.

• Craig for his tremendous knowledge and his time and ideas.

• Kerstin and her family for her ever so loving support, without them, we wouldn't be able to do any of this!

• Jay for feeding us (twice) at a very critical time.

• Jeff for his detailed, specific guidance, experience, and support of this project.

• Bruce and Cathy for finding our spare crankshaft and meeting us alongside the interstate all the way down in Knoxville, Tennessee! YAY, road-trip!...it was a game-changer moment for us for sure.

• A gigantic thank you to Pat and Dan who stopped in Memphis, for a week, and made the setup for the rebuild possible. Without them we wouldn't have had fuel, food, oil, parts, coolant, firewood to keep warm, scuba breathing air, parts cleaner, a vehicle to drive in our errands in...(basically everything).

• Tommy for his kindness and wonderful T-Day meal delivered in the rain.

• Kenny and his team for fresh fish and alligator sausage, yum!

• All of those who reached out to us. It didn't go unnoticed.

The following engine tasks were completed:

• Replaced crankshaft

• Replaced main bearings

• New pistons, rings, pins, circlips

• New #2 conrod

• New crank pin bearings

• New crankshaft oil seals on both ends

• New injectors

• New fuel injection pump

• New gaskets

Here are a few random photos from the rebuild.