[C320-list] exhaust mixing elbow

[BAdams3491 at aol.com]

Good advice, diesels like to work.  I had a mechanic tell me that once  a 
month I shoud pretend the C320 is a power boat, and go out and run  it hard, it's 
good for it.
 
Bert
At Ease
#442
 
 
In a message dated 9/19/2008 4:42:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
vmdatsea at hotmail.com writes:

Thought  I'd pass this along for general lesson learned file. In july on my 
way back  from Catalina island to San Diego, I noticed that when I ran the 
RPM's up to  3200, I got a bit of black/brown smoke from exhaust. Since water 
tanks were  full and there was a bunch of stuff on board, I figured probably just  
overloading the engine was the problem. On my next trip to catalina on Labor  
day, I noted smoke at 3000 RPM. To make a long story short, the problem  
progressed rap[idly over the next 30 hrs of engine use to the point where even  at 
2000 RPM i was seeing smoke. We limped back to the slip and called mechanic  
( to whom I had spoken while in Catalina and who had advised me that problem  
was likely a clogged exhaust mixing elbow and OK to run engine at low RPM as  
long as it was not producing smoke.) He came out on Monday and problem was  
indeed exhaust mixing elbow. The engine is 3 years old and has about 220 hrs  on 
it. He admonished me for not using the boat enough (in front of my wife,  
which should work out well for future sailing schedule) and for babying the  
engine. So, for anyone else who tends to baby their diesel, run it frequently  and 
run it hard. But we already know that!Crosby Roper, VMD
Tethys #  1054
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