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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:52:06 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Unfortunately there are major reliability
issues with high performance diesels run at slow speed for extended
periods of time.

This from Cummins Diesel, with Mercruiser-Zeus Pods...dont remember
reading that in the article...who's your Pro stating that?
I dont think these are high-performance Diesels, either.

They just about have to be high performance just to push a 41 ft boat
at more than 20 kts. The problem is with the turbo chargers. They
carbon up when used at low speed which causes very expensive
maintenance issues.
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