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No: 019 | Date: 2003-01-06 | Carribean, Martinique, Le Marin

Volvo Diesel Engine Failure


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Description: A Volvo mechanic is releasing the troubled engine from it's mount so that it may be hoisted from the engine compartment.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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Description: The engine weighs approximately 400 kg (1000 lb) and has to be lifted by a strong metal chain that we connected to the ceiling of the engine compartment.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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Description: JF brainstorming with the local mechanics on safe removal procedure.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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Description: We attach a steel extension to our boom in order to create a crane construction to raise the engine out of its compartment.
Photo by: JF Thye
   
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Description: We attach the main halyard to carry most of the load of the 400 kg engine.
Photo by: JF Thye
   
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Description: We extract the engine from its compartment successfully with a pulley system connected to our boom extension.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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Description: We slowly lower the engine onto a cart on the dock, from where it will go directly to the shop.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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Description: Florian's face shows our disappointment with this inexplicable engine failure.
Photo by: JF Thye
   
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Description: The entire engine will be dismantled in the shop and the engine block, cylinders, and rings will be checked for defects.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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Description: After dismantling the engine we also detect a fracture in steel alternator mounting plate. A local welder will reinforce the plate for us.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
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