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Minnimum Cummins cruising spedd

Tamaroak wrote in news:Fd2dnbJAg-bp2pbZRVn-
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these motors don't like to go slow for a number of reasons

Huh?? Where'd you hear this nonsense? A diesel doesn't like to go slow?

What reasons do you know about to go with this??

A friend, who should never have been allowed to drive a 56' Hatteras away
from the dock, ran its twin 8V92TA, twin turbocharged train engines at idle
for many years before I came along. I must admit there was a "little
carbon" in the waterboxes that came out when I "opened 'er up" offshore of
Charleston. It looked something like a ship blowing the boilers..(c;

These idled-for-years old Detroit Diesels had ONE little weak injector
spring in one engine when the diesel shop pulled them all apart for
inspection for the massive survey the buyer paid for when he sold it. ONE
spring! To start them, you simply flipped the switch to ON and barely
touched the start button and they jumped to life, even stone cold.

I don't believe Dan hurt them treating these beasts like the boat was a
trawler all those years he owned it.

Sure made a big cloud of carbon (cough)(cough)(choke)(gasp) 5 miles
offshore...(c; I told him I was trying to hide the brown trail he was
leaving when the mascerator pump was emptying those massive dirty tanks...
(c;

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