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week 5

this week at work i did a shaft alignment and new shaft bearings on a seiner. the people who did the orginal install was way off on the alignment so it burnt up the old bearings. we lifted the engine up and redid the mounts and replaced the old bearings. this was my first shaft alignment on a larger engine (6135 john deer) so that was pretty cool. i also finished up doing another d4 225 sterndrive install on a small puget sound crabber.

 i learned the importantence of having one of those larger shafts aligned properly because being off just a little bit can cause big problems

Volvo penta school

So for three days last week i was sent up to the volvo service school in burnaby canada for training on the D9-d16 MH (marine Heavy). the class started off with just covering the basics of the engine, what kind of applications they have been used in and what they want to start seeing them used in. that went on for the first day and a half. the last one of the half days of the training went over volvo penta's EVC system which stands for electronic vessel control. they briefly covered all eleven generations of the system along with the little problem assiocieted to each one. what i found interesting is how they talked about how each system started to encorporate a digtal vs using analog communication till the point it became all digital in EVC version E. then we practiced setting up some of the newer EVC systems.

week 6

this week was primarly focused on getting that head of that d6. numbers 1 3 and 4 injectors came out smoothly and number 2 and and 5 took a couple of hours apiece but no 6 just didn't want to come out. see on a d6 in order to remove the head the injectors have to come out first due to the face that they go thru the valve cover first so you cant get it off until all of the injectors are removed. we finally ended up taking one of the other injectors and disassembling it and finding a nut that would fit the to where the harness plugs in and welding something a slide hammer would screw into and then it finally we got it out
45 hrs

week 5

this week I prepped and installed a d1 in a sailboat.i also got to go down with matt and adjust throttles and tachs on a pair of cummins 6bts in a grand banks. then I got to do a sea trial on a minor sport boat that we did some service work to. then on Friday we started to remove a head of an older d6 that had popped a seal on the no. 2 injector which turned into a real mess.
42

week 4

this week was a little more eventful. Monday we had to pull a drive off of a d6 and slide the engine forward so we could inspect the transom due to it was leaking water. I guess this boat had been in here a couple of months ago for a new exuast horn and whoever did the job didn't change out the crush rings that seal up the transom so it had a slow leak. then Tuesday we removed a yanmar 6lpa from a crabber which had started to dump oil out of the dipstick ( failure?) so we were going to repower it with a 330 hp d6. I also did shifter cables on a 290 drive the rest of the week we finished up servicing an ocean sport and then removing a cat 3126 out that was getting repowered with a c7.
40

week 3

this week was kind of slow. I did another service on a ad 41 along with a new riser and boot for it. I also serviced the drive. one new thing I got to do was install all new updated tensioners and pulleys on a pair of d4s along with new heater hoses.


hours 40

week 2

this week I did one service on a Volvo ad 41 and the drive which was a DP 290. I also got to adjust the shift linkages on a pair of newer dph drives. I also got to pull heads on a 375 hp cat 3208 in a bayliner. the starboard head blew a gasket between the cylinders. and I also got to do a carb rebuild on a Yamaha 15 hp which was kind of different
38hrs

Week 1

Sorry about not posting earlier but so for week one I spent some time working on a D6 Volvo penta that a customer did the install himself but didn't install the right pcm and hcm so we swapped those out, had the starter rebuilt (it was really corroded) and new shift actuator. After that I got to gown down to Anacortes to start on installing a 343 cat in a seiner.

Hours: 43