T&T: Perkins Diesel mechanic needed

[Jay Leonard]

You said not an "exessive"" amount of oil in the
bilge.
One place the Perkins 6.354 is nototrious for is
leaking oil out of the starboard forward engine mount
studs. There are 3 of them and they go into the oil
gallery. Remove the studs one at a time, clean, goop
up with your favorite RTV and re-install. The job
takes 20 minutes and since you remove one at a time
there is no change in alignment. I have done this job
on mine and on a few others.
You could also be losing oil thru your turbocharger.
There is a seal inside that looks like a piston ring
that can let oil from the feed line go into the motor.
It will get burned and you probably won't be able to
tell by the exhaust smoke. Rebuilding a Perkins turbo
(Holset model 3LD) is easy. The "kit" is about $90
(available at any turbo shop)and the job is straight
forward if you are a quasi skilled mechanic.
I hope this helps. Best of luck.
Jay Leonard




Message: 13
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:45:41 -0700
From: "Brent Hodges" <vbhodges at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: T&T: Perkins Diesel mechanic needed
To: "Mervyn Carr" <mervcarr at rogers.com>
Cc: trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
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On 7/30/07, Mervyn Carr  wrote:
>
> 1979 Perkins T6.354. She is using excesssive amounts
of oil
> (about 1 litre per hour) and (I suspect) an oil leak
somewehere as
 well.
> doesn't seem to be smoking much (except at low
speed)
> and there is not excessive amounts of oil in the
bilge either, so
 it
 is a
> bit of a mystery to me as to where the oil may be going.(endsnip


       
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