Engine troubles

[Renegade_Master]

Thats Gonfishing & cngarrod reporting recent trouble with petrol engines, funny how they are so reliable in cars. I mean when was the last time you know of a modern car engine not starting? Guess it must be the marine environment?

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[BrendanS]

Loads of modern petrol car engines have probs, as any garage will testify. I had a 5 quid sensor for the camshaft position go on mine last year, which caused the black box engine management system to completely cut off everything, no spark nothing.

Two peeps posting doesn't mean there is a general problem. There's been many, many more diesel users posting about problems on these forums since I've been a member. Mine is petrol and goes like a dream, only problem I've ever had is a flat battery (my fault) and losing the belt the other weekend, which was quickly fixed.

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[gonfishing]

thanks colin for your moral support in my hour of need !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
any ideas what problem may be ???
julian

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[banus]

The problem with gonfishings engine is it was designed in the 60's Things weren't so reliable then

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[BrendanS]

Nothing was as reliable then, diesel, petrol, nor anything else

SunCoast did state modern. There's a thread on PBO at present at giving up trying to keep a similar aged diesel running. My point is that I don't believe that petrol engines are any less reliable than diesel.

There's a bias in some quarters of these forums against petrol engines: unreliable, dangerous, likely to blow up, petrol fires, etc. which just isn't born out by the evidence.

Any older engine is likely to suffer problems, no matter what it's fuel. Modern engines are remarkably reliable, not matter what it's fuel.




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[BarryH]

But he's problems seem to be fuel supply. Give the engine a clean supply of fuel, oil and cooling of some sort and it will run. The fuel supply was not part of the original engine makers equipment. So really its not the engine thats unreliable its the fuel system to the engine.

As for older engines not being reliable, not true. In the family is an old Land Rover, never missed a beat and is still running strong on the same engine it left the factory with many many years ago. The only thing that makes an engine ureliable is abuse and poor maintanance.

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[Renegade_Master]

Yup didnt realise his engine was 60's I was refering to modern engines.
By the way Brendan I've had Honda cars since 1988 and not once have I broken down. The first one, an Accord (injection) did 100k in four years no probs at all, right up to the current CRV, 40k already, again no probs.

Mind you my Honda bikes never broke down either. By japanese seems to be the message what was your car that broke down?

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[boatone]

Whilst I seem to have had more than my fair share of 'engine' problems with my 1974 P32 and its 2 x AQD32A's (Volvo/Peugeot/Indenor origin) I think its fair to say that none of them have been an 'engine' failure.
On the othert hand ALL of them can be attributed to poor maintenance:
1. currently embarked on major removal of crud from mild steel fuel tank....blocked fuel filters prove the problem
2. Wiring looms damage and/or poor substitution by previous owner(s)
3. Lost steering cowl nut on outdrive (not properly 'locked'
4. Faulty thermostat - could this be called 'engine' failure?
5. Belt failure

On previous boat had a similar aged OM636 diesel and sure I could tot up a similar tale if I put my mind to it.

My findings.....? Not unreliable engines....more like unreliable people/owners /forums/images/icons/smile.gif



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[cngarrod]

to be fair i haven't had any other issues with it (touch wood!) but i guess like anything mechanical it has things that will break...

I tend to think that it is usally a case of "sod's law" - the one day you want all to go ok - is the on day you can guarantee it will go pear shaped!

Have fun!

Craig.

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