preferred engine choice?

[GrahamHR]

Hi Graham , I e given an answer to Russ based on what I do every day of the week for a living .

DPH has a steering indicator cable , these are very expensive both to purchase along with the ball joint at the outer end , plus the labour involved to change it . Some boats have to move the engine forward just to gain inside access to parts required to remove the cable .

Trim pump , when trim rams leak and they seem to leak far sooner from new compared to old style DPE rams , quickly the salt water trashes the pump gear and check valves , pump trashed . Check for pink milky oil.
DPS has totally different rams to the DPH and DPE , wry rarely do they fail , just be the American origin or follow on design

We still have a choice to fit either the standard type shift cables which give a few years or the nice super slippy type ones that transform and old boat with the standard set up .

Hope that helps

Hi Paul,

Thankfully my boat with DPH doesn't have a steering indicator cable !

So far as well, no steering ram failures. likewise trim rams ( I suspect there is a great deal of " not invented here" syndrome at VP between the US and Swedish operations; costly for the company as it wastes money). As a hobby car I recently bought a Saab of GM lineage; even the battery cover retainer clips are different to those on the Vauxhalls/ Opels of the same era based on the same floorplan!
Close, but not quite the same so different tooling required; multiplied by the number of different parts on a car, that's a huge extra cost.

As to the shift cable, what a pain to change it compared to the V8/ DPS. I suspect a lot of the shift actuator failures are due to the convoluted, restrictive path the cable has to take.

 

[Whitelighter]

Russ, in case you are still liking this dropped into my inbox and I thought of you:

https://bcm-yachtsales.de/boat/cranchi-zaffiro-34/

2007 Cranchi 34, late boat with D series engines. Only in Holland (easy and cheap to get back)
€89k (£79k) before negotiation. Looks like a lot of boat for the money.

 

[russ]

Russ, in case you are still liking this dropped into my inbox and I thought of you:

https://bcm-yachtsales.de/boat/cranchi-zaffiro-34/

2007 Cranchi 34, late boat with D series engines. Only in Holland (easy and cheap to get back)
€89k (£79k) before negotiation. Looks like a lot of boat for the money.

Thanks Jez.
I'm not that adventures to buy abroad.
Keep em coming.