Make one yourself. Get a propellor curve chart from CAT for your HP, and read the fuel numbers at a given RPM off the propellor curve chart...
Most of the 12v71 TI's I've run, will have an idle oil pressure of less than 12 lbs, one would be around 4-5 lbs at idle with hot oil. 1900 rpms...
I ran a 1979 58' Hatteras YF for years that had mechanical driven tachs (no hour meters in them), it had pretty darn long runs to the flybridge...
However, 99.9% of the tachs I've seen are simply electric and record the hours the engine has been running. They just have a feed off of the oil...
The Tennis match screws up everything in Key Biscayne like nobody's business. Quite frankly, the marine stadium was on Key Biscayne a long time...
I can see trucks using another method because most OTR truckers just leave them idling all night long at the truck stop while they sleep.
No, not that i have ever heard of. CAT records fuel burned and has a fuel burn average and recommends maintanence based on fuel burned or hours....
I also am in the camp that this situation is very far from normal. The only plausible connection for having both shafts break in 300 hours...
What you want to do is a fix in search of a problem. In order for saltwater to corrode things you need oxygen present (air), without that...
What he's trying to say is that fresh water flushing the engine helps prevent some scaling of the heat exchangers. But in reality, it might help...
Shut the seacock, turn the freshwater valve on very slightly to keep the raw water impellor wet, start the motor quickly and instantly open the...
It happens a lot. I also see it on generators on higher speed boats just from running fast without the generator running and seacock open. If...
Are you flushing them with the motor running or not? Be very careful as inboard diesels are a different story compared to outboards and you can...
I think there is plenty of both, Chouest owns a very large shipyard that builds lots and lots of oil industry boats for the gulf. Chouest bought...
I'm guessing Shell is bottling it at different refineries, perhaps not even themselves, and it's obviously not the same oil inside the same barrel...
The shafts that connect the gear to the propellor? Where did they break? Were the props recently changed or removed/replaced? What other info...
Personally I think it is a mistake for Westport. Anything above 164' is a truly custom build and people want a custom boat/design. I think they...
Wrong, If you read the label on the 5 gallon bucket in the 3rd picture it says "High quality single grade Heavy Duty Diesel engine oil" right...
Well, I'm guessing the HD stands for heavy duty. It appears to be CF-2 rated, so you could use either one.
I certaintly would not want an old WOODEN Broward MY for that voyage.
