MFV BF494 'Pansy', an old Motor Fifie Conversion

finger out, big push to get the deck on before it gets finger bitingly cold... Finally got the beams finished today, made loads more sawdust and wood shavings with the last bit of shaping for the sweeps, last of the knees all snuggly bolted in, gonna rip the tarps off next week and start bashing some deck planks down, although there is the small matter of a quarter of a tons worth of winch to temporarily relocate first.

Had loads of emails and folks looking in here after googling ford lehman 2715e Marine diesel engine info, so am gonna add what few new pearls of wisdom I might be able to share, but do have one thing that a lot of the 'lehman lurkers' (say hello FFS!!) might find interesting. Inherited a huge pile of old boat magazines, PBO, Classic Boat, Wooden Boat, etc etc, going right back to the early 70's, some cracking stuff in there for those with a nostalgic bent, but one feature did leap out, so I've scanned it and PDF'd it and all that sorta jazz. It was titled 23 steps to cheap power. Basically the whole marinisation process in 4 pages of converting the Ford 2700 - 2715e series of Road Diesel engines to marine diesel engines. Its got pictures and everything - click the link below

Marinising the Ford Lehman 2700 - 2715 series of Diesel engines

Got a few other bits and pieces I've unearthed recently about the Ford marine Diesel, part numbers, equivalents etc, will make a post with them all on at some point