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Alex’s Marine Plus
2907 Rte 9W Suite 200,
New Windsor, NY 12553
(845) 565-9199
alexsmarineplus.com
One question I am often asked is, “How long should a marine
engine last?”
You’ll hear lots of numbers bandied about in answer to that but
the truth is there is no answer. How long an engine lasts depends
on so many variables that no one could accurately predict engine
life with any degree of accuracy. But we can say a few things
About Engine Life In General.
First, diesel engines typically last longer than gasoline engines.
There are two main reasons for this. One, at a given boat speed
they turn fewer revolutions, usually about a third fewer. When an
engine turns fewer revs per mile, pistons make fewer trips up and
down the cylinders and valves open and close less often. Ergo,
less wear.
Further, the other reason is that diesel fuel contains oil, and so
it not only provides fuel for combustion but also for lubrication.
Gasoline is fuel and nothing else. Moreover, as we all know,
diesels burn less fuel per mile traveled than gasoline engines, and
the most reliable indicator of an engine’s life is the amount of fuel
it burns.
This is what happens to many marine engines!
Some of them rack up so many hours that their piston rings and/
or valve guides wear, allowing lubricating oil to get past them and
into the combustion chamber, where it’s burned, along with fuel.
The result is a rather embarrassing cloud of blue smoke but the
engine still runs, often surprisingly well. However oil consumption
only gets worse, and inevitably it will get to the point that it’s either
too bothersome to put up with or the spark plugs start fouling with
oil residue and the engine begins to miss, and eventually won’t
start.
We at Alex Marine Plus have a team of expert mechanics that
can, a will rebuild that engine that is worn out, giving you all kinds
of trouble.
In most cases ordering a rebuild of your engine in late summer
while your engine is still in the water gives us an opportunity to
assess your engine problems and give you a quote for a complete
engine rebuild before you put the boat away for the winter.
The advantage to this approach is you will have a complete
engine rebuild for the 2019 season.
Call us, lets discuss this NOW!
Richard Terpening’s
WATERCOLORS MARINE
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