I've used fuel flow with turbine engines for years, just used to it I guess. I'm struggling to get Cummins charts to come up with this crappy...
How do they/you figure "load"? I like to use fuel flow, but Cummins specifies RPM rather than load.
Would 300rpm below max be more than 80% for most diesels? This was just from Cummins, others might have different specs. Boats like mine with...
A Cummins QSC8.3 comes in different horsepowers, and duty ratings, for the same basic engine. High Output is their lowest duty rating, for...
Mine is a 2004 375: aft-cabin flybridge. I have a hard time liking that this is a balsa-cored hull. The hull is balsa cored, including below the...
Get the Cruisers, and de-badge it so nobody knows you own a Cruisers. Wife and I were looking for a Formula, she used to work at Tiara, we ended...
You need to experience different types of boats in different situations for extended periods, before you can choose a boat you will be happy with...
Tortola
My back is in bad shape from too many long beatings on boats and other youthful transgressions, but I still love it. I have to work out every day...
When I'm running 500 knots into a 200 knot headwind, my airplane slows down. It is still going 500 knots through the medium that is causing drag...
Not just Navy culture and not new. Every time the military needs something, they have to cut somewhere to get the money. Reduced manpower is...
I've flown airplanes where a valve wasn't sealing, and fuel kept flowing back to the empty center tank. Lots of possibilities. Those do look...
Are these smaller engines continuous-duty rated like you see in bigger yachts? Unlikely, so pushing them hard for long periods may become more...
I test drove a BMW 740iL many years ago. After I drove it around, and my wife drove it around, I took it out and floored on a country road on my...
Easy fix, not that you should do this, but it would be easy and cheap, and better than the original press-fit. Take off the bracket, drill and...
Pictures...?
That yellow cutting and gluing jig is what I used to use, made hundreds of O-rings for industrial vacuum chambers. Meters long, they had to be...
[IMG] The O-ring cutting and aligning jig is available from McMaster for $3.14. That, superglue, a razorblade, and some O-ring stock (or a...
Silicon grease (brake grease, dielectric grease, O-ring lube, etc.) might give the seal enough stick to stop the leak temporarily. I put silicone...
Charter guests and crew walked off due to poor condition of the boat, so I'd say yeah, probably needs a lot of money and time to be worth what...
