On Jan 15, 9:12*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
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.

It must be that ****ty, American diesel fuel. My Truck never carbons
up, and it runs slow for hours at a time...