Hitachi ZX 160 LC Year 2003 bogs down, looses power and stalls

skyking1 said:

hope you get that weather.
The only fix on that grease is to remediate it, I am afraid. The crap won't grow any cover so you can get traction.

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Hi Skyking1, Totally agree. Have 10 tons of MOT 1 on order which is a mixed size aggregate we use to repair the towpaths with and 8 tons of "dust" which is finely ground up rock chippings. The MOT 1is laid usually by young corporate volunteers and trodden in. We are forbidden to use whacker plates to compress it down and rely on footfall to flatten it down. After a month or two the, dust is laid ontop to fill the voids. This forms a permiable surface which allows drainage and a stable walkway that is wheelchair friendly. There must be 10-15 tons of MOT1 in the bund we created to act as a barrier accross the canal while we worked on making a stop plank (oak beams) installation. Never been done before in 200 years . Normally there are grooves in the towpath walls which were put in when the canal was created over 200 years ago to block the water while work is undertaken behind. We needed to build this so that we can excavate a winding hole (turning point) before going off building a new channel to connect with the old part of the canal. The words " you will never achieve that" is not in our vocabulary. Just need to fix the excavator.--Nothing beats us

Love the "winding hole"
Your little boat and that day hire 35' boat wind where ever you happen to be
I motored down to the furthest away lock on our agreed limits, tied up and took pictures of locking through with confidence that I could 3 point my way back out of there with ease.
There we are spun about, watching this 60' with bow thruster locking through.

Usually when i wind my boat(turn around) I do it with confidence BUT if I mess up there usually is an audience of Gongooselers ( people who watch boaters,comment but are not boaters themselves) When I do it right there is now one about.
I`m up for a trip this weekend with the craneboat. Ive got to push boat about 6 miles up the canal with a tugboat to meetup with canal and river trust contractors to change one of the lift pumps where water is extracted from the river to top up the levels of the canal. The Tug arrived back today with a report of engine spluttering and comment that "it wouldn`t push the skin of a rice pudding". Tug was used for work further up the canal and as usual we give it back fully operational and when it arrives back there is a problem. The tug doesn`t belong to us but we have full use of it and is based at our location.So Thursday I`ll need to look at the fuel system--maybe clag in the filter,water in the separator or a petocock that has broken in two parts and is blocking fuel--common problem.
Got DR Dx and my fellow sufferer will be jacking laptop into the ECU and see if anything shows up while I play with the tug. Still after I fix it "I will need to take it for an extended test" so will visit one of our live abourd boaters stuck up the canal with engine problems and offer her a tow back breasted up to home base. Love messing about with boats--just hate excavators.