Ya gotta love diesels
 

Opened the cooling water intake seacocks, turned the batteries switch to
"on" ... gave the throttles a little bump up over idle, turn the keys and
..... varoom !

Both engines hardly turned over once and they lit off and purred. Little or
no smoke to speak of. It was as if they were just running 5 minutes ago
and I shut them down for a minute.

They had not run since last September.

I start getting the itch hearing them run and the sound and vibration in the
boat.

Eisboch

Ya gotta love diesels
 

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Opened the cooling water intake seacocks, turned the batteries switch to
"on" ... gave the throttles a little bump up over idle, turn the keys and
.... varoom !

Both engines hardly turned over once and they lit off and purred. Little
or no smoke to speak of. It was as if they were just running 5 minutes
ago and I shut them down for a minute.

They had not run since last September.

I start getting the itch hearing them run and the sound and vibration in
the boat.

Eisboch


Pervert!

Ya gotta love diesels
 

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Opened the cooling water intake seacocks, turned the batteries switch to
"on" ... gave the throttles a little bump up over idle, turn the keys and
.... varoom !

Both engines hardly turned over once and they lit off and purred. Little
or no smoke to speak of. It was as if they were just running 5 minutes
ago and I shut them down for a minute.

They had not run since last September.

I start getting the itch hearing them run and the sound and vibration in
the boat.

Eisboch


Pervert!


heh. Not really. But I actually *do* enjoy a little whiff of the exhaust
though.

Eisboch

Ya gotta love diesels
 

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Opened the cooling water intake seacocks, turned the batteries switch to
"on" ... gave the throttles a little bump up over idle, turn the keys and
.... varoom !

Both engines hardly turned over once and they lit off and purred. Little
or no smoke to speak of. It was as if they were just running 5 minutes
ago and I shut them down for a minute.

They had not run since last September.

I start getting the itch hearing them run and the sound and vibration in
the boat.

Eisboch




I bet you took the "For Sale" sign off shortly after that. ;-)

BTW: My friend with a Lyman recorded his engine running from the marina to
the Lake so he could get his boating *fix* during the winter by listening to
it.

Ya gotta love diesels
 

"JimH" wrote in message
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BTW: My friend with a Lyman recorded his engine running from the marina
to the Lake so he could get his boating *fix* during the winter by
listening to it.


I have a two hour DVD (my brother recorded on VHS and I copied it to DVD)
of various parts of our 1600 mile voyage to Florida. Every once in a while
I watch it and get flashbacks of every single event, major and minor of that
trip. It's a great video.

Eisboch

Ya gotta love diesels
 

my old boat had twin cummins "B" series... I used to roll down the
window of my car when I was at a red light next to a Dodge diesel pickup
just to hear the sound!!! now I have 671s and their sound is not as
distinctive as the cummins...



Eisboch wrote:
"JimH" wrote in message
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BTW: My friend with a Lyman recorded his engine running from the marina
to the Lake so he could get his boating *fix* during the winter by
listening to it.



I have a two hour DVD (my brother recorded on VHS and I copied it to DVD)
of various parts of our 1600 mile voyage to Florida. Every once in a while
I watch it and get flashbacks of every single event, major and minor of that
trip. It's a great video.

Eisboch

Ya gotta love diesels
 

"Ed" wrote in message
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my old boat had twin cummins "B" series... I used to roll down the window
of my car when I was at a red light next to a Dodge diesel pickup just to
hear the sound!!! now I have 671s and their sound is not as distinctive
as the cummins...


It's amazing that if you hang around diesel powered boats long enough you
get to recognize and identify the engine types by sound. I can recognize a
6-71 when it fires up 10 boats away.

The Volvo engines in my boat also have a distinctive sound ... in part due
to the fact that the engine room is totally sound insulated. You can hear
the exhaust and, as you throttle up, the turbos spooling, but no diesel
knocking sound. In fact, it sounds like a Greyhound bus inside ... sorta a
turbine sound due to the turbos. The engines sound very remote while
underway.

The Egg Harbor had CAT 3126 engines that have got to be the loudest things
I've heard in a boat that size. They had turbos, but you could not hear
them over the engine noise.

Eisboch

Ya gotta love diesels
 

Eisboch wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
...

my old boat had twin cummins "B" series... I used to roll down the window
of my car when I was at a red light next to a Dodge diesel pickup just to
hear the sound!!! now I have 671s and their sound is not as distinctive
as the cummins...


It's amazing that if you hang around diesel powered boats long enough you
get to recognize and identify the engine types by sound. I can recognize a
6-71 when it fires up 10 boats away.

The Volvo engines in my boat also have a distinctive sound ... in part due
to the fact that the engine room is totally sound insulated. You can hear
the exhaust and, as you throttle up, the turbos spooling, but no diesel
knocking sound. In fact, it sounds like a Greyhound bus inside ... sorta a
turbine sound due to the turbos. The engines sound very remote while
underway.

The Egg Harbor had CAT 3126 engines that have got to be the loudest things
I've heard in a boat that size. They had turbos, but you could not hear
them over the engine noise.

Eisboch




I've always thought the Cummins in the Dodge pick-me-ups sounded
"better" than the Powerstrokes in the Fords. But I have nothing on which
to base that, other than how the sounds hit my ears.

Ya gotta love diesels
 

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
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my old boat had twin cummins "B" series... I used to roll down the
window of my car when I was at a red light next to a Dodge diesel pickup
just to hear the sound!!! now I have 671s and their sound is not as
distinctive as the cummins...


It's amazing that if you hang around diesel powered boats long enough you
get to recognize and identify the engine types by sound. I can recognize
a 6-71 when it fires up 10 boats away.

The Volvo engines in my boat also have a distinctive sound ... in part
due to the fact that the engine room is totally sound insulated. You can
hear the exhaust and, as you throttle up, the turbos spooling, but no
diesel knocking sound. In fact, it sounds like a Greyhound bus inside
... sorta a turbine sound due to the turbos. The engines sound very
remote while underway.

The Egg Harbor had CAT 3126 engines that have got to be the loudest
things I've heard in a boat that size. They had turbos, but you could
not hear them over the engine noise.

Eisboch


I've always thought the Cummins in the Dodge pick-me-ups sounded "better"
than the Powerstrokes in the Fords. But I have nothing on which to base
that, other than how the sounds hit my ears.


Totally different sound. The Cummins is a six, the Ford is an eight.
Ford 6.0L engines have a very distinctive sound when slowing down. Not
really a rattle, but a strange sound that no other diesel I've heard makes.

Eisboch

Ya gotta love diesels
 

On May 6, 2:36�pm, "Eisboch" wrote:


heh. *Not really. But I actually *do* enjoy a little whiff of the exhaust
though.

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Back when I worked as a yacht broker, we had a boat that just reeked
of diesel. Nobody could sell it. It must have been shown 100 times,
with the average showing lasting maybe 2-3 minutes and typically
concluding with "I'm sorry, but I've got to get out on the dock and
get some air. I can't stand the smell in here."

There was no active leak, but at one time there must have been a major
one. The fuel was gone but the odor wasn't, and the smell didn't seem
as though it would be easily banished. I'm sure the previous owner had
taken a few steps that had failed to resolve the issue.

One day I showed that boat to a guy who took two steps through the aft
bulkhead door and began sniffing pretty loudly. "OK," I thought, "here
comes the smell objection."

The prospect looked at me and demanded to know, "Can you smell that?"

"Well yes, actually. There is some diesel smell. The boat has been
sitting here closed up for several days, but I wouldn't want to
mislead you into thinking that even opening up everything and airing
the boat out would get rid of the smell. If the rest of the boat seems
OK, then it's something you might want to ask your surveyor
about......"

"Heck, why would I do that? This is the first boat we've looked at
that actually *smells* like its seaworthy. Reminds me of my younger
days on commercial fish boats. I enjoy it."

He bought the boat, partially because he *liked* the smell, proving
yet again that there's a be-hind for every helm seat.