Marc Rainaldo
Active Member
Hello all,
Past augustus we made our first action in our new 500da.
We did a test trip to see how our boat goes in plane.
On start we had some black smoke but that disappeared very fast (dirt in turbo).
We heard on high rpm a high sound.
After this trip we did some trips on low rpm with no problems. The way the diesels run on low rpm is perfect and the engine sound is very good.
We faced many other problems (non engine) on our ship that had to be fixed first so didn’t payed much attention to the engines yet.
Now the time has almost come to do some maintenance on the 6v92 Detroit diesels. This is my first boat with diesels so I still have to learn a lot.
Maybe the high sound is a turbocharger sound, I don’t know yet because the turbochargers on the Detroit’s are the first turbos I ever experience.
From that test trip we made a video, I hope someone recognize the sound.
For the maintenance my plan is to start by changing oil, impeller and all filters.
Learn, listening and measure from there.
Past augustus we made our first action in our new 500da.
We did a test trip to see how our boat goes in plane.
On start we had some black smoke but that disappeared very fast (dirt in turbo).
We heard on high rpm a high sound.
After this trip we did some trips on low rpm with no problems. The way the diesels run on low rpm is perfect and the engine sound is very good.
We faced many other problems (non engine) on our ship that had to be fixed first so didn’t payed much attention to the engines yet.
Now the time has almost come to do some maintenance on the 6v92 Detroit diesels. This is my first boat with diesels so I still have to learn a lot.
Maybe the high sound is a turbocharger sound, I don’t know yet because the turbochargers on the Detroit’s are the first turbos I ever experience.
From that test trip we made a video, I hope someone recognize the sound.
For the maintenance my plan is to start by changing oil, impeller and all filters.
Learn, listening and measure from there.