Diesel Mechanic on the river?

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annamorgan

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Does anyone know of a diesel mechanic. Have scouted around and past experience has shown that the closest was in the Bronx. Any recommendations?
 
What type of diesel?

PennyBridge works on diesels
 
What brand of diesels like Hogan said.

Samalot is little sailbote crap. TZ is Volvo.

Not every shop is capable of servicing every brand of motor, unless, it is a simple problem.

JMHO.
 
Check with Patsy's Bay Marina, they have a guy named Pete that works there from time to time. I believe he also works up at Marlboro Yacht Club.
 
Need to have my 4 tachs calibrated. All 4 reads different. Penny Bridge said they couldn't handle it.
 
I'm not sure how this differs for a diesel vs gas motor I don't understand maybe I'm missing something here. It sounds like you want you gauges calibrated not engine work. I would think you need a portable tach and a screw driver but maybe things have change over the years and there is a new way to do this, I've only done this once and it was years ago. For the record I never even touched the motors it was all done right at the gauges.
 
To calibrate the tachs I need to know what the correct rpm reading is first. To find that out I am being told that a special hand held tach is required that is not available at the marinas I checked with.
 
I picked up a dwell/tach meter at the automotive store and hooked the clips to the back of the each tach and dialed them into to read the same. Hopefully they both idle the same this was a fairly easy task but this may be entirely different on your boat. I did this on my fathers 1985 Chris Craft and each of the tachs had a screw terminal (potentiometer) to adjust. The test tach was inexpensive if I recall about $50 bucks or so.
 
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Originally posted by annamorgan

To calibrate the tachs I need to know what the correct rpm reading is first. To find that out I am being told that a special hand held tach is required that is not available at the marinas I checked with.

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What you are looking for is a laser tach. Not that expensive. I bought one when we got our first diesel engine. Roughly $10-$30 on Amazon these days.

Apply a simple reflective strip on the crankshaft pulley, start engine, aim laser at the pulley, press button and you can read the exact engine RPM.

Why these marinas would not have such a valuable tool is beyond me. I'd double check on that if you don't want to buy your own laser.
 
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