Diesel Engine Care and Repair
A Captain's Quick Guide
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2007
39 pages
978-0-07-150886-5 (ISBN)
Description
When it's sink or swim, this Quick Guide will keep you afloat!On the water, when an engine problem surfaces, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. Diesel Engine Care and Repair provides all the answers--fast.Drawn from the world's largest boating library, it presents 14 color panels of authoritative, concise information on diesel engines. This on-the-spot reference is a convenient, accessible, and utterly streamlined information resource.
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Niger Calder is the author of Marine Diesel Engines (1987, 1991) and Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual (1989, 1995), the success of which has made him the most sought-after marine how-to writer in the U.S. and U.K. He has published more than 800 magazine articles in SAIL, Cruising World, Ocean Navigator, Yachting World, etc., and lectures on cruising to sell-out crowds. He is also the author of The Cruising Guide to The Northwest Caribbean (IM, 1991) and Cuba: A Cruising Guide (Imray, 1996). He will be testing his newest ideas with his family during a six-month cruise to the Caribbean and South America this winter.
Content
- Cover Page
- Diesel Engine Care and Repair
- Copyright Page
- Meet Your Diesel Engine
- Standard Operating Practices
- Troubleshooting
- Overview
- Engine Cranks Slowly or Not at All
- Engine Seized Up
- Engine Cranks Normally But Does Not Fire
- Engine Overheats
- Miscellaneous Operating Problems
- Routine Maintenance
