brimanst
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Well, I did the long drive again with a minivan full of boat stuff and 3 passengers, but we made it to Ft. Myers and took delivery of the 480DB. Left the fuel dock yesterday and made our way to Key West. In 2-3's with an ocasional 4-5, by the way. 1st 2 dockings under my belt with no major issues :smt038 .
I have some questions about the CAT 3196 operating ranges.
1. My water temp runs right under the red zone on the guage. I figured out how to use teh scroll button and I think I remember the values of water temp to be around 200. They never reached the red, but stayed just under the entire way. Is this normal?
2. My port side trans pressure is running 38, to where my stbd is running 20(psi?). Is this an acceptable range difference? What could it be?
3. My alternator seems to put out less than 12 volts at cruise speed but 13v at idle. This seems odd, so I am wondering if that is normal as well. BTW, I had the genny running the entire time, and did not remember to turn of the converters. I don't know if this affects anything.
4. Right before the NW channel into KW, my biilge stayed on constantly, so we slowed down to investigate and saw a steady stream of water coming from the other side of the outermost stringer. It was small, so we decided to just take it easy until we hit the dock, since it was getting dark. When it started, everytime I would speed up, it would get worse (the bilge would continuously run) when I slowed down, the bilge came on intermittently. After about 10 mins at 1000 rpm, i decided to increase it 100 rpms at a time until the bilge came on steady. It never happened again. I came into KW on plane with no running bilge pump. We let the motors cool and crawled around them with no success of finding a leak anywhere, except some A/C drain which we repaired. Does anyone have a suggestion on what it could be or how to find it. It is naturally on the outboard side of the port motor, where I cannot fit (6'0" and 240lbs).
Any help is appreciated and no I am not going on a diet for this. Thanks in advance, back to drinking.
Briman
I have some questions about the CAT 3196 operating ranges.
1. My water temp runs right under the red zone on the guage. I figured out how to use teh scroll button and I think I remember the values of water temp to be around 200. They never reached the red, but stayed just under the entire way. Is this normal?
2. My port side trans pressure is running 38, to where my stbd is running 20(psi?). Is this an acceptable range difference? What could it be?
3. My alternator seems to put out less than 12 volts at cruise speed but 13v at idle. This seems odd, so I am wondering if that is normal as well. BTW, I had the genny running the entire time, and did not remember to turn of the converters. I don't know if this affects anything.
4. Right before the NW channel into KW, my biilge stayed on constantly, so we slowed down to investigate and saw a steady stream of water coming from the other side of the outermost stringer. It was small, so we decided to just take it easy until we hit the dock, since it was getting dark. When it started, everytime I would speed up, it would get worse (the bilge would continuously run) when I slowed down, the bilge came on intermittently. After about 10 mins at 1000 rpm, i decided to increase it 100 rpms at a time until the bilge came on steady. It never happened again. I came into KW on plane with no running bilge pump. We let the motors cool and crawled around them with no success of finding a leak anywhere, except some A/C drain which we repaired. Does anyone have a suggestion on what it could be or how to find it. It is naturally on the outboard side of the port motor, where I cannot fit (6'0" and 240lbs).
Any help is appreciated and no I am not going on a diet for this. Thanks in advance, back to drinking.
Briman