Bohans
Veteran Member
hi everyone. A quick question of what would you do in this case?
I bought my boat in January. Knew I had some engine issues to sort out. I found a mechanic recommended to me who specializes in Cummins 855 engines. I had the valves adjusted on both motors and the port motor had new injectors put in and I replaced the turbo also.
the port motor still blew a lot of white smoke and fuel out exhaust even with new injectors and actually worse than with the old ones. So I ask mechanic to check it out, he says all ok...
so I find another mechanic and he comes out checks exhaust and says valves must not be set right and injectors not torqued correctly. Short story, he fixes it. The port motor now starts with a puff of white smoke, clears immediately and is running clean and perfectly. When he fixed it, he found 9 of the 12 valve settings incorrect. Now there is no fuel out exhaust at all.
point is, the first mechanic still owes me a rebuild on a fuel pump, as it was not done correctly first two times (by a rebuilder not him) and the fitting of the starb fuel pump also as this was an issue from when I bought boat. Now it should be fixed but waiting for the new pump. ATM I am running the starb motor on the mechanic's own pump and is great...
so I have a bit of work he still has to do but do I tell him about all the incorrect settings on the port motor which I paid another person to fix? I also will have to redo the starb motor valve and injector settings as they are likely out too as the mechanic did these when he did the port motor.
would you tell him or just let I go and not use him again?
I bought my boat in January. Knew I had some engine issues to sort out. I found a mechanic recommended to me who specializes in Cummins 855 engines. I had the valves adjusted on both motors and the port motor had new injectors put in and I replaced the turbo also.
the port motor still blew a lot of white smoke and fuel out exhaust even with new injectors and actually worse than with the old ones. So I ask mechanic to check it out, he says all ok...
so I find another mechanic and he comes out checks exhaust and says valves must not be set right and injectors not torqued correctly. Short story, he fixes it. The port motor now starts with a puff of white smoke, clears immediately and is running clean and perfectly. When he fixed it, he found 9 of the 12 valve settings incorrect. Now there is no fuel out exhaust at all.
point is, the first mechanic still owes me a rebuild on a fuel pump, as it was not done correctly first two times (by a rebuilder not him) and the fitting of the starb fuel pump also as this was an issue from when I bought boat. Now it should be fixed but waiting for the new pump. ATM I am running the starb motor on the mechanic's own pump and is great...
so I have a bit of work he still has to do but do I tell him about all the incorrect settings on the port motor which I paid another person to fix? I also will have to redo the starb motor valve and injector settings as they are likely out too as the mechanic did these when he did the port motor.
would you tell him or just let I go and not use him again?