In article KtX0g.2640$uK.1305@trndny03, Thomas Wentworth
wrote:

Old boat, old engine... how would you approach a purchase of an old boat
that had a late 60's Volvo MD2 in it?

An engine survey? What does the engine surveyor do for an old diesel
engine?

Are you, the reader , familiar with the Volvo MD-2 diesel? What's up with
em? Can the run and run and run?

Yes but parts are expensive.

If it has clean oil, good compression, has been looked after with good
fuel filtration etc etc, and runs well now, it'll probably keep doing
so if well looked after by the new owner - you. Same for Yanmars etc of
similar vintage.

I have a Lister FR2 marine engine as a project waiting for time. It's
as old as I am.

PDW