Good point, CR. For some reason, I had in mind that it happened upon cold start, rather than after shutdown (as the OP actually said). On the...
Do you actually mean hybrid (diesel/electric), or electric-only? If the latter, I'd be curious to hear what you have in mind, because I'm not...
I wouldn't rule out leaking injector(s) either.
I can't think of any marine engines which were ever stretched to a thousand ponies with a 12 liters displacement. Well, aside from Seatek, who is...
Looking fwd to hearing your findings. There must be something wrong somewhere, because it beggars belief that just one side/fluke was partially...
Sounds like the flukes are not rotating as freely as they should. Are you sure there isn't some metal dent somewhere, or anything else restricting...
A gensets noise change suggests that the engine is struggling to keep up with a high current demand on its alternator, but pretty sure you must...
And didn't he mention that a multimeter test with no load on a capacitor is as reliable as tossing a coin? :confused: Based on your latest...
Well, I agree as a general principle, but one has to wonder what were they thinking at Cat, in this particular case. I happen to know intimately...
I definitely preferred the pocket anchors arrangement that I used to have in my previous boat to the bow roller that I have in the current one....
Are they, really? The CORES?!? I thought that only the external box was aluminum - which is an already debatable choice - but using it for the...
You might have already seen these Cabo seatrials sheets, but just in case... Ref. the hours, if anything they sound unusually low, for a 16 years...
You might be unable to spot a defective run capacitor with just a multimeter. Easier to just replace it and see what happens - it's not a big...
R U sure it isn't a 230V 50Hz motor? I can't read all the yellow label on the box, but it does show 230VAC at its top. Anyway, the symptoms you...
I am a big fan of the principle that all boats are headaches, and while most folks aim at the larger headache they can afford, it's much wiser to...
Doh! Don't ask me why, but when I wrote my previous comment I calculated by heart a displacement of around 9L for the V12 DD 71 - hence my comment...
20 kts at 1900 rpm with less than 80% load doesn't sound too bad, actually. I guess that aiming at a much faster speed with that hull would be...
No idea about if and how much oversized the original shafts were (or not) vs. the original power. But the exhaust size depends more on...
Pardon my bluntness, but it's also a matter of attitude, on top of age. At 32, you should feel like you'll live forever... ...but if you fear to...
I can't see well enough the steps in your photo in post #33 to understand how they work and how solid they are, so I won't comment further - aside...