Restoration 9600HP .. ;)
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Restoration 9600HP .. ;)
Ok, if you own a ship with 2 main engines each kicking out 9600HP make sure you do the Big Ends up properly otherwise this might happen...
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and the piston will get stuck in the liner...
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and the block will be smashed to pieces resulting in bent push rods ..
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oh..and a new block...that'll be 1.9 million euros please...
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old block out
New block nearly in...
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lowered down through hole cut in deck into engine room..
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DONE
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not bad for two weeks work ...think you'll aggree lol
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and the piston will get stuck in the liner...
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and the block will be smashed to pieces resulting in bent push rods ..
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oh..and a new block...that'll be 1.9 million euros please...
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old block out
New block nearly in...
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lowered down through hole cut in deck into engine room..
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DONE
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not bad for two weeks work ...think you'll aggree lol
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worth noting that the RFA ( royal fleet auxiallary) dont ACTUALLY do alot of work themselves..hence why we get called in. sound bunch tho. Worse still is the RN , they are slack as hell lol big boys club.
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Thats a rather large engine !
Being that the engine I guess is assembled by a few people what happened to the guy that incorrectly torqued that big end up !
How long does it take to remove and refit a engine ?
Being that the engine I guess is assembled by a few people what happened to the guy that incorrectly torqued that big end up !
How long does it take to remove and refit a engine ?
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The old engine was out in about 2 days, that includes cutting the hole, unbolting the coupling , pipework , removing cylinder heads and other bits .
It was done in Hamburg using Blohm and Voss shipyard ( where they built the Bismark ) and the yard labour were shit hot. Literaly 14 days to get the old one out, the new one in, line it all up , bolt on the pipework and make some alterations and then weld the deck back in etc.
Good going for ZEE GERMANS
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lol @ that ^^^
You make it sound so simple.
We had a discussion round mine the other night after looking through that out shipyard thread and some more current ones, what exactly do you use to tighten a bolt to 2250bar ! Some of the tools must be ridiculous !
You make it sound so simple.
We had a discussion round mine the other night after looking through that out shipyard thread and some more current ones, what exactly do you use to tighten a bolt to 2250bar ! Some of the tools must be ridiculous !
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Hope this makes sense, its not easy to get your head round lol.
The REALLY big two stroke stuff uses the same principles just bigger jacks and nuts.
The jacks themselves are about the size of two bags of suger so are man handelable.
Its easy to get wrong but once you;ve done it several hundred times it gets easier .
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Great info, just spoke to my mate who is a fitter for Scania, he asked the initial question and was quite impressed with all that as that's totally his sort of thing.
If there are any jobs going let me know and he'll drop your company a cv
If there are any jobs going let me know and he'll drop your company a cv
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The boss is a bit of a bell-end but who knows what might happen.. lol
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Cool, I'll let him know, I'm like a kid in a sweet shop walking around his work looking at what I consider to be big engines, clutches etc. but then you post things like that !
Some of the stories of he roadside repairs he has been called out to are hilarious, one being a small rattle coming from the engine which turned out to be half a block missing and a rod hanging out through the side LOL
Like ship engines when those sort of things let go they do it properly ! only more expensive !
Feel free to post more pics, I love stuff like this and plenty others on here do too !
oh and PM me your email !
Some of the stories of he roadside repairs he has been called out to are hilarious, one being a small rattle coming from the engine which turned out to be half a block missing and a rod hanging out through the side LOL
Like ship engines when those sort of things let go they do it properly ! only more expensive !
Feel free to post more pics, I love stuff like this and plenty others on here do too !
oh and PM me your email !
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Cool, I'll let him know, I'm like a kid in a sweet shop walking around his work looking at what I consider to be big engines, clutches etc. but then you post things like that !
Some of the stories of he roadside repairs he has been called out to are hilarious, one being a small rattle coming from the engine which turned out to be half a block missing and a rod hanging out through the side LOL
Like ship engines when those sort of things let go they do it properly ! only more expensive !
Feel free to post more pics, I love stuff like this and plenty others on here do too !
oh and PM me your email !
Some of the stories of he roadside repairs he has been called out to are hilarious, one being a small rattle coming from the engine which turned out to be half a block missing and a rod hanging out through the side LOL
Like ship engines when those sort of things let go they do it properly ! only more expensive !
Feel free to post more pics, I love stuff like this and plenty others on here do too !
oh and PM me your email !
I came from Wartsila which is another big marine diesel engine firm . If your mates keen then its nt a bad crack really, obviously its not all shits and giggles but it pays for my house and Rs's lol also , in the last two months ive done 3.5 weeks work . ideal
just popping out, ill try to remeber when i get bk / tmrw about the email etc. ill have a rumage for some pics aswell..got far too many lol
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lol yeh its all fun and games! couple of the guys i work with have moved over to the marine side from working on Caterpillar Construction so they're all into their diggers and all that stuff, another guy's ex Mercedes etc. so its a mixed bunch really.
I came from Wartsila which is another big marine diesel engine firm . If your mates keen then its nt a bad crack really, obviously its not all shits and giggles but it pays for my house and Rs's lol also , in the last two months ive done 3.5 weeks work . ideal
just popping out, ill try to remeber when i get bk / tmrw about the email etc. ill have a rumage for some pics aswell..got far too many lol
ta - ra!
I came from Wartsila which is another big marine diesel engine firm . If your mates keen then its nt a bad crack really, obviously its not all shits and giggles but it pays for my house and Rs's lol also , in the last two months ive done 3.5 weeks work . ideal
just popping out, ill try to remeber when i get bk / tmrw about the email etc. ill have a rumage for some pics aswell..got far too many lol
ta - ra!
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Im a dockside crane driver, so been on a few ships in mine time, lifted a few engine parts on to them, pistons etc, and they are rather huge...i have sometimes thought how the hell do they change the engine if it goes boom, some are stuck right under the bridge's etc, now i know just cut the boat until you can get it out
Also notice thats some crane lifting it out, dont look like much but has a S.W.L of 200ton...
Also notice thats some crane lifting it out, dont look like much but has a S.W.L of 200ton...
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Im a dockside crane driver, so been on a few ships in mine time, lifted a few engine parts on to them, pistons etc, and they are rather huge...i have sometimes thought how the hell do they change the engine if it goes boom, some are stuck right under the bridge's etc, now i know just cut the boat until you can get it out
Also notice thats some crane lifting it out, dont look like much but has a S.W.L of 200ton...
Also notice thats some crane lifting it out, dont look like much but has a S.W.L of 200ton...
the block weighed in at 160 T i believe, thats minus heads etc. You want big cranes goto Schiedam in Holland, they've got the Mommout deep sea rigs etc..thats BIG lifting lol
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Hopefully on Both engines
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the Heavy stuff is a cunt to work with, they shoul dnever shut the engine down on Heavy but some do.
As a link , the Chief Engineer onboard owns a Mint Escort Cos , He's in the Durham Rs Club if anyone knows him...Steve
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