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Hi
I am hoping someone out there may me able to help me, I have a Birchwood 33 with Ford Deisel 240 series 4 cylinder 80HP engines which have been marinised by Mercraft.
I am having duifficulty in trying to obtain manuals for the engine, Broom installed the Mercraft Ford Deisels in their boats as well but they may be the 6 cylinder 105hp enigines.
Would anyone know of a agent/shop where I could buy a manual or website where I could download a one.

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers Mark
 
Hi Mark, I rebuilt 2 of these some years back in the first broom 37 crown that was built.

The basic engine was the dover block, I would try Lancing marine or mermaid marine for the details, the ford unit was the basic engine.

The books I used were the owners, they were in Ford printed books, mercraft was the marine division of Ford, but it dissapeard when sabre and mermaid captured the main Ford marine market, lehmann were also a contender but also dissapeared.

Settings like valve clearances and torque settings im sure you can get from mermaid or lancing marine, I always find Lancing very helpfull, I use them a lot for zf and twin disc gearbox parts.
 
I imajain that your engine is a Ford D seriese which was fitted in trucks, plant,excavators, virtually everything in the 1970,s and 80,s. Try to get an industrial engine manual. I bought a "New" well known make of boat in 1979 which had Ford xxxxxxx 80 engines in it. I remember that when it was "Brand New" one of the engines would not start. I had a garage and my mechanic was brilliant on diesels and he couldent get it going. Unfortunatly I wasent there when they fixec it. But they must have had the head off (not what you expect on a new boat) as you could see where the white paint on the head bolt nuts had beendisturbed. Anyway we took the engine number off the block, rang Ford and found that the engine had been made 10 years before. It appeared that this boat manufacturer bought "reconditioned" Ford engines which were painted blue, sprayed them white and marineised them. The paint under the cracked white head bolt nuts was blue, whereas a brand new ford engine was black.
Anyway after all that for a workshop manual for your engine you may find one at a dealer of machines or tractors as I think that your engine was fitted in a Fordson Major Tractor, or perhaps a Dexter. ps never again will I buy a new boat where the engines fitted have allready had production ceased
 
manual

Is anyone able to operate the link I posted? all the info is there on pdf's. Not much use trying to help, if we get no feed back. just point at the orange writing!!
 
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