Sounds like the old chevy days with forged cranks and 4 bolt mains on higher hp motors. LOL...... I haven't heard of any catastrophic failures on...
You can usually get most VSC parts from Viking yachts, they have a lot of stuff in stock. Be very wary of the teak as it's probably on it's last...
Triple turbo's? Sounds like a lot of boost crammed into the same engine.
Yes I have experience with mid 2000's VSC's. I don't think the parts are anymore expensive than Yanmar in the same HP. Why do you keep thinking...
Yeah well, reading comprehension is everything. The OP is asking about a set of Caterpillar C18's, not 3512's not megayachts.........
I'd much rather have MAN's than Scania/Yanmars......getting parts for MAN's has been no problem......and it isn't brain science to work on them,...
It's 6' going into Cave. Yeah but you can wander the island yourself. The view South from the marina has a nice exposed beach but yeah the...
Most overlooked marina/island is Cave Cay. Very well protected marina, concrete floating docks, interesting island and you generally have the...
Not sure why you want to avoid MAN, they're the most reliable engines in this HP range. I can't remember how long ago I had to get the dealer out...
THIS. You're talking about an engine with KNOWN aftercooler failures, and CAT's recommendation became that of replacing them every 6 years, just...
How about taking the heat exchangers apart and off of the boat for a professional cleaning, inspection, and test like the manufacturers engineers...
Call UMT
I manage a 2007 62, Predator since 2011. The boat is a great sea boat. You can access everything for maintenance pretty well, engine room laid...
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Did he not notice your tan??????
If you're in Fort Lauderdale, I've used Lab Dr. on S.E. 17th street and they were very fast with the turnaround times.
You need the test, and print out 2 copies as they're going to want to keep 1, need to apply for the health visa, then need to retest if you're...
There is absolutely NO reason you need to do 10 full minutes at every 200 RPM's. But I could see that if you didn't have to do it for 10 minutes...
Charlie Smith.....from Smith and Wick in Palm Beach does a great survey. Keppler is a bit over the top, wants to do every 200 rpms for 10...
Which would show you what exactly? The bearings are sealed inside journals and no way to tell the condition of them even if you had the oil pan...
Have the MAN dealer come out and do the engine survey. Nobody is going to let you pull injectors and scope cylinders, that's a HUGE job and the...
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