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Re: Mercruiser Gets it righter?
Posted By: vic Roy In Response To: Re: Mercruiser Gets it righter? (CMP)
Date: Thursday, 16 March 2006, at 8:15 p.m.
Well...... Ya know, this is a pretty nice place where people treat each other with respect, period. You defend the Swedes like you have a financial interest in the deal. I commented that I thought the IPS is a dumb idea and you reacted like I called yo' momma a ho.
I will never respond to one of your posts here, ever, and urge the Faithful to treat you the same, time for us to just ignore a rude asshole. The phone # at my office is 800 260 9908, gimme a call, asshole, my nickel.
Now, let me give you some first hand experience on the Swedes and their "brilliant" engineering. In the early 80's they came up with the duoprop drive coupled to the little AQAD 30 diesel 4 cyl. engine, 110 hp, a nice set up, but new. Especially the duoprops. I was one of the first in the United States to install them, a pair in my B25. $22,000, a lot of money at the time. They were so over engineered (I defined that as stupid s**t they did) such as the props had the hubs glued in, yep, glued. Wehn the hubs spun out, they were done, could not be fixed. 700 bucks a pair and you needed 4. I went up the customer service chain all the way to Sweden to find out, yep, they cannot be fixed, buy some new ones, they are not covered under warranty. Duhhhhhhh? Then things started falling off the engines, like the fuel filter mount on both engines cracked in under 100 hours. They gave me new mounts, but no labor to install them. No problem I installed them and they both broke in under 50 hours, so I made my own in my shop that lasted. Oh Yeah, your Swede buddies also instaled the fuel lift pump where the fuel lines (steel, and good old Swede hi-carbon that rusts if you spit on it) where when it cracked, it shot hot diesel inside the alternator. Nice fire. Did I tell you about the brackets that held the sea water strainer on the front of the engine? They both cracked off in about 150 hours, nope, the Swedes would not repalce them, so again I made my own. Let's see..... oh yeah, the raw water pump installed so you had to remove the heat exchanger to change the impeller.... The square air cleaner that had a plastic cover that meleted because it was too close to the exhaust manifold.... The disign of the raw water pump that when the seals failed, there was no weep space to let the water drip - the Swedes let it, good old salt water - go right in the oil pan.... Oh yeah, almost forgot - the oil pan rusted holes in it because they primed it with some new stuff that did not work.
Now the duoprop system was a story in itself. Stainless cap screws thru a zinc ring into an aluminum housing. Them brilliant engineers you been touting been spending too much time chasing nooky in Sweden and not enough time on the water.
Absolutely the worst engineering I've ever seen, a total diaster.
Anyway, you need to listen to your elders, asshole.
Ban him Faithful, I did my best to be nice.
UV
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