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Posts in the category of: Engine Maintenance
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Unseen Catastrophic failure part 2
September 15, 2021
Engine Maintenance
Back in June, we attended a Caterpillar 3516 gas engine for a straightforward job – changing the rear main oil…
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Critical circulation
September 2, 2021
Engine Maintenance
We currently have a Caterpillar 3508 engine in the workshop from a dredging vessel. The engine in question was removed…
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Are your engines feeling the heat?
August 19, 2021
Investigation & Rectification
While attending a site recently, we found two inoperative engine jacket water heaters and having organised the spares required, we…
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Overhaul Issues
July 28, 2021
Overhauls
We currently have a Caterpillar 3412 engine in for overhaul for a marine operator, and we’ve found numerous issues. I…
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Oil in the manifold
July 21, 2021
Engine Maintenance
This week I’ve been onsite to change two low-pressure turbo cores and replace the core o rings on a Paxman…
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Gas escaping
June 30, 2021
Engine Maintenance
We attended a power generation site in London recently to perform a 30,000hr service on their Jenbacher 620 engine. And…
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Unseen catastrophic failure
June 9, 2021
Overhauls
We recently attended a site to change the rear main oil seal on a Caterpillar 3516 gas engine. There'd been…
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Do you know how hard your engine is working?
June 1, 2021
Engine Maintenance
Charlie, one of our project engineers was carrying out routine servicing recently and found himself discussing the checks and test…
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Diesel Bug
April 29, 2021
Engine Maintenance
As part of our MAN dealership capabilities, two of our engineers recently attended a research catamaran. The work scope was…
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Diesel engine lubricating oil – contamination advice
April 26, 2021
Knowledge Base
When one of our clients approached us to ask what others were experiencing with oil quality, we reached out to…
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