Cummins 3A 1.4 3 Cylinder Diesel Engine, can they be marinised?

[Jcorstorphine]

I noticed these Cummins engines on Ebay and wondered if they could be marinised.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400410898793?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Engine feet, flywheel mass, drive plate and Belhousing flange would be easy enough but one problems would be a water cooled manifold / FW heat exchanger as I dont think Bowman do one for this engine

I had wondered if these might be for Genny application but they seem to have variable speed governor.

Any thoughts, perhaps one for “Latestarter”

No connection with the Ebay advertiser, just looking for options for a boat I am looking at which has a knackered MD2B

 

[PCUK]

You can get a water cooled manifold made at your local engineers for a relatively small sum and use a remote heat exchanger mounted on the bulkhead. You may also need an oil cooler so will need an adapter for that unless the engine already has one. A pulley driven raw water pump is easy to fit as well. You get a lot of marinising stuff secondhand if you are that way inclined so not a huge outlay overall.

 

[Latestarter1]

I noticed these Cummins engines on Ebay and wondered if they could be marinised.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400410898793?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Engine feet, flywheel mass, drive plate and Belhousing flange would be easy enough but one problems would be a water cooled manifold / FW heat exchanger as I dont think Bowman do one for this engine

I had wondered if these might be for Genny application but they seem to have variable speed governor.

Any thoughts, perhaps one for “Latestarter”

No connection with the Ebay advertiser, just looking for options for a boat I am looking at which has a knackered MD2B

Been away in Falmouth, messing with forums on Iphone is tedious.........

Cummins became involved with Kukje Machinery Co over ten years ago. Kukje manufacture engines and agricultural machinery and very nice small premium tractors are sold in U.S. under the Branson brand. Kukje were one time Yanmar licensees and have many common features, cleverly fuel system is Korean licensed Bosch so easy to get service anywhere. Engines had excellent reputation and it looked like the deal had real synergy.

Cummins invested heavily in emissions technology for the engines, however deal never worked out. Onan are wedded to Kubota period, so no market there. Also Kukje had limited production capacity with huge growth in small tractor production Cummins always came second in supply stakes.

When time came for investment in Tier IIII Final Cummins decided to shake hands and walk away. Kukje may also have felt threatened by the huge deal which was brewing with Hyundai in Korea who were were about to drop production of their own engines in construction machinery, in favor of building Cummins engines under licence.

Once the A Series range was no longer a production item dealers sold off remaining stock. I went to several auctions and new engines were making between £600 and £700 a pop plus buyers premium, not bad as OEM pricing was about £1k when in production so Ebay seller not on this planet!

Because A is properly designed industrial engine it has two standard SAE power take off pads on front timing gear, finding suitable sea water pump should not be a issue, not so sure about exhaust manifold, several potential marinisers contacted Thermex to design a combined HX/manifold however nothing ever materialised.

Good luck