hey yall gotta 6.9 in my boat

[towcat]

boat ballz.......

 

[CaptTom]

Aaaahahahaahahahaaaa!!!


Bronze to boot! and much more pronounced than truck nutz!

Nice one!

 

[snicklas]

Cal,

Is that one of George or Drew's boats? I know they just wwnt through a refit.....

BTW - Anyone heard from George laterly???? I haven't seen him in ages.. Drew you heard from him?

 

[DeepRoots]

yup. Geo got hurt on the job nearly a year ago. He's still sitting on the bench. He is cleared to work again in Oct I think.

Dangerous work tugs are.
Since you want pictures.
My boat recently backed into a shallow spot. We sheared the pin for the rudder shaft. Rudder went 90degrees past and jammed on the shaft... when steering went to Stbd it hit the wheel. We got picked up by a Travelift.
It is pretty cool watching a dude drive your boat with a remote control while he walks alongside it. Drove us right through the parking lot and set us down on some blocks.

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Since I'm posting pics.... This is the 1inch deep, 2inch wide key that sheared. Yeah... 4000yard loaded mudscow pushed us into the shallows while backing. oops! lotta inertia at 1.5knots my brothers...

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[DeepRoots]

I get to fix engines... play in the mud.... and break the biggest coolest ****.

yeah, I like my job.

 

[snicklas]

Thanks!!!! Cool Pics Drew!!!!!

That left a mark........

I guess the damage could have been worse...... but not being able to steer can't be fun...

On the ground on the right in the last pic, it that the nut that belongs on the threads on top of the shaft with the sheared key?

Thanks for the update on George. If you talk to him, ask him to drop in if he feels up to it. Glad to hear he is on the mend.....

I can't imaging all the stuff that can "get ya" on a big boat like that. I have watched some of the current "reality shows" that take place on boats. It seems that if you argue with the boat, the boat normally wins......

 

[towcat]

I can't imaging all the stuff that can "get ya" on a big boat like that. I have watched some of the current "reality shows" that take place on boats. It seems that if you argue with the boat, the boat normally wins......

not all the time......

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/towboat.asp

click on the linky inside snopes for the pics after reading the story.

 

[CaptTom]

WOW!

That's one of the bigger lifts.

Losing steering in tight quarters really suxx. I've lost steering only three times in 30 years. One hydraulic, one gear sheer and one cable.

The cable loss was off of a Jacuzzi bucket in the Panama Canal. We were exiting the Western locks (Pacific side). We had just let go the mooring lines on a 36' twin jet boat when all of a sudden my port bucket went from reverse to forward as I was walking the boat off the wall in a pretty good current. The boat started towards the lock wall. Somehow, I managed to pull the 6-53 emergency stop and single stick it out the lock. As I was struggling to avoid crashing the boat, I noticed people looking down on me as if I was some ammychur.... missed the lock wall by inches and made it out. My crew and the guys in other boat in our group bought me beers after they figured out what the heck happened.

If you want to see what can happen to Drew if his Captain "Trips" his tug, I added a link to a very mild tripping.... not tipping, but tripping. Tugs have sunk doing this too, enjoy:

http://youtu.be/w_EyHS9IMcA

Here's another one:

http://youtu.be/4oSuOrQbfiA

 

[gatorman21218]

Who knows, the engine itself may be unhealthy for various reasons, including very dirty cylinders and oil. I picked up a 77' Magnum with twin 16cyl DDEC's from Acapulco one year. The oil was so sludged up, we couldn't get the boat over 13 knots at full throttle, when she should have been doing 42 knots...this after an oil change. We changed the oil four times before San Diego. With each oil change, we gained enough speed to be able to do 28 knots entering San Diego. Between blowing out the soot on the top end and working out the old junk from the oil pan, we managed to free her up. Being that it was a DDEC, we didn't know we had 5 blown cylinders too. The computer cut out the bad cylinders, so we didn't have any indicators other than power losses. 3 cyl in one engine, 2 cyl in the other, totaled 5. The reader for the DDEC was missing and limited tools prevented our testing.... this was a bit of an emergency rescue mission if you will!

I thought Detroits were self oil changing?

 

[snicklas]

Cal,

I have seen that before..... that was one luck captain at the sticks that day.... and like always.... just can't kill a detroit..... even if you put it on its ear........ I bet water wasn't the only thing on the floor of the wheelhouse...... or maybe that got washed out when the wheelhouse emptied.....

 

[DeepRoots]

no worries about Capt's tripping the boat. I have been around long enough, if I call in and say I feel unsafe with this Capt, I get transferred. The guys I am with now are top notch. I've even gotten guys transferred over not shutting the doors while we are shifting. I don't like the idea of drowning....

and who said anything about loosing steering I hammered out the pin in the hydraulic ram, I keep two plugs zip tied on the stern so I disconnected the hoses and plugged the hydraulic lines... we had the rudder @ 90degrees to the Stbd, the other rudder worked fine.
Might have taken me 3-4 minutes tops.... The capt was steering just fine. I chained the rudder in place and used a chain hoist to pull her tight, we were secure and worked the rest of the day. Course it was like draggin a barn door, but whatever, least it wasn't kicking our stern either way.

The only time we 'lost' steering for any length was when our steering jog melted the contacts.... it was giving an electrical signal to go hard to port. No biggie, we just needed to figure which of the 9 jogs was the screwed up one hard part was we were doing 10 knots when the rudder swung 45degrees to port, hah.

 

[CaptTom]

Nice job Deeproot,

Chains??? What, couldn't get your teeth around that thing and twist it straight??

And no, the guys before us couldn't kill the Detroits!!! Broke em a little, but didn't kill 'em. Those DDEC's got us home, over 1500 miles with problems stated.

After the rebuild, she did do 42 knots!!

My 671 N/A has been running for ten years straight with nothing more than.... yes .... "intentional" oil changes and filter replacements.... although the bilges need a mop up after a month or so of runing.

 

[DeepRoots]

we had 16v149 Detroits. loved them. I could swap a head in under an hour. Seriously, carry 1 power pack, 3-4 heads, 6injectors, fuel pump, water pump, and filters.... we could go anywhere.

Now we have these stinky cat C32's. more power sure, but at a price....

 

[CaptTom]

we had 16v149 Detroits. loved them. I could swap a head in under an hour. Seriously, carry 1 power pack, 3-4 heads, 6injectors, fuel pump, water pump, and filters.... we could go anywhere.

Now we have these stinky cat C32's. more power sure, but at a price....

Yeah Detroits are a dying breed. The C32's were more than likely installed to meet some Tier II or III requirements too.

Tier II and III here in Klownifornia was all based on a lie. It was discovered they made the diesel emissions numbers slant waaaaay out of favor on diesels. Yeah, they lied.... but guess who got promoted? And guess what state is still riding the pink pony towards Tier IV?

 

[DeepRoots]

I like the power of the c32's. I do not like that the techs are ignorant about them. I do not like the 4,000 orings you need to do anything.
I especially did not like loosing two camshafts at 5,000hours, that scared me.... why the heck would an overhead roller cam go bad in 6months of usage?