"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Chuck Gould" wrote in
oups.com:

These are computer controlled common rail engines

(1-800-Diesels).....

"Hello, Cummins? We're in a marina in (pick an exotic island) and it
won't
start! I don't think the computer is injecting any fuel. Who's your
computer technician with that special computer terminal and years of
training that can fix it here?"

Might be interesting to call 'em to see what their response to this call
would be before buying it. Joe's Diesel and Tiki Bar, who fixes the
diesels in the fishing boats tied up aft of you, can fix the old,
mechanical Perkins/DD/Lister/Deutz/Yanmar with his tool box in the truck.
I bet he'd shake his head and just say "NO WAY!" to a QSL. It won't run
on
coathanger wire and bubble gum like a 6-71 will.

It is something to think about on a boat you're going to cruise to very
exotic and backwards, technologically speaking, places with, isn't it?




Like it or not, these are representative of all future diesel engines for
boats, trucks (light duty and heavy duty) and all other diesel engine
applications. The engine in my pickup is electronically controlled and,
like the boat engine that Chuck reported on doesn't smoke or belch black
smoke. When I had the 2002 Egg Harbor two versions of the 3126 Cat was
available .... conventional and electronic. The electronic version was
quieter, smoke-free and had an additional 30 horsepower. I had the
conventional engines.

I think it's a good thing.

Eisboch