At the end of our last blog, we'd managed to successfully get the pistons in the hydrolocked engine moving. Or so we thought. When we reassembled the engine block head and tried to turn the engine over again, it seemed sluggish and we could hear an ominous squeak. So, what next for our broken sailboat engine?

We'd done all we could with the engine in-situ, so the next step was to have it lifted out of the boat. With that we'd have better access to work on its components. However, time then got away from us as illness and life demands ate up our resources. As a consequence, it wasn't until the end of December that we were finally ready to have the engine lifted.

With the engine sat on a pallet in a shed, we got out first really good look at it. Initial thoughts were that we could still see a lot of rust. Was it terminal or could we bring Victor the Volvo back to life?

From our social media postings, we've had a few questions and suggestions for solutions, so I thought we'd document our options.

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