coliholic
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Re: Cat\'s Vs Volvo
Moose have you had a look at www.boatdiesel.com?
Have a read under Caterpillar. Talk about some horror stories on the 31xx series engines. There's boats regularly changing blocks every 300 hours running. Quite frightening. It sems that the biggest problems are with the French built engines (as if the Americans could ever build something faulty eh). Worth a look. Oh and there's a Volvo Penta forum too that's worth a read too.
Of course a criticism with this site is that the only people who post are those with problems so you can get a bit of a distorted view, but useful input to have I think.
Moose have you had a look at www.boatdiesel.com?
Have a read under Caterpillar. Talk about some horror stories on the 31xx series engines. There's boats regularly changing blocks every 300 hours running. Quite frightening. It sems that the biggest problems are with the French built engines (as if the Americans could ever build something faulty eh). Worth a look. Oh and there's a Volvo Penta forum too that's worth a read too.
Of course a criticism with this site is that the only people who post are those with problems so you can get a bit of a distorted view, but useful input to have I think.