Smoking Mermaids

[omega2]

One other thing often missed but essential is the oil or lack of it in the cam box, usually when the drain plug is removed pure red diesel runs out, this should be engine oil, see the diagram this will help you renew the oil.

 

[Kawasaki]

I,m sayimg nowt.
hlb may be lying East of me shortly.
Good job the Prevailings are from the West!

If I hadn,t messed yer Deck.
I,d have stuffed the Valve Gig down yer neck /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[GRACIEJAY]

Thanks everyone for your help.

I contacted Mermaid yesterday afternoon and ordered some manuals. I was very impressed that they arrived this morning. That's a service.

Worked through a few things today. I checked that I was getting fuel at the injector pump, and this was present but I noticed that the colour brown, also there was very little smell. I then undone a fuel pipe and let it run for a couple of minutes, still brown with bits.
I am wondering if this fuel is contaminated or is it of the chippy variety.
Decided to drain a bit off and fill up with some red stuff. 5 minutes later smoking halved.

What will the neghbours say?

What additives do you recommend for the diesel? I have used some before but never felt they made any difference.

I think Ihave also sorted the cranking. Whilst investigating the fuel I found the windlass cables flappng about in the bilge and connected in with starters. Disconnected windlass and engine turned over twice as fast. Cable in water and copper has turned black. A quality install.

Tomorrows tasks: Wiring!

Cheers

 

[GRACIEJAY]

Thanks for that. I will check in the morning. The good thing about this is the learning and finding where everything is.

 

[hlb]

Soltron always worked for me. Can you still get it?? Theres some other stuff with a similar name.

Think I'd be changing the filters.

 

[GRACIEJAY]

Will do.

 

[ccscott49]

I have mermaid six cylinder non turbos and they only smoke a little on start up, they also start almost if you touch the switches!! It's that fast honest! But they do get pampered, filters, tappets, soltron, cuddled, etc, etc.

 

[omega2]

I'd stop smoking if I lived in the Med as well!!

 

[jcmmarine]

Lovely engines, I have 2 of them.
Slow to start and smokey when cold, but they will not let you down.
There is a easy start position on the fuel pump, but it is not worth lifting the boards to reach.
Good reliable engines that go on and on, accept their starting foibles

 

[hlb]

What's this sudden thing about smoke. Ive made a career about it All diesels smoked, up to the nineties. Maybe they still do. Dunno, but it was never a big deal before. Old'ish engines smoke a bit on start up. A bit Mucky Farter'ish. They always did and always will. Theres not necessarily anything wrong.

Look on the posts on here. MF is famous for smoke.
Yet on sea trials by engineers last year, still pulled full power, only twenty years old. An Insurance job.

Smoke is nothing to go by

Yep. We have laughed and joked about MF for years.

The same 400 hp is still Being produced.

 

[hlb]

So MF smokes a bit. on start up. Still pulls 400hp after twenty years. And yer problem is.............................

 

[jcmmarine]

Agree entirely

They smoke cold and off load. Warm and on load they are as clear as a bell, even after 3500 hours.

I have 2 dorset lorry engines - thousands of which are still traveling or motorways with many times the hours of my engines on their clock.