Greaves diesel

[brickie]

Hi

Has anyone come across a Greaves marine diesel.I've done some research and believe they are built in India.Not much more than that.Anyone?

[Timleech]

Based on Ruston designs, usually YC I think?

 

Tim

[MtB]

Verty nice trad style engines, based on a Ruston design, used to be imported and sold by Longboat Engineering IIRC who are still around. Google them.

 

 

MtB

[Athy]

Apparently they used to be called Ruston & Hornsby (India), but whoever took R&H over copyrighted the name, so they had to change their name. Greaves was, from memory, originally their Indian distributor.

[onionbargee]

India cannot make decent engines, i wouldn't bother, their quality control is based on slathering it in thick paint to hide all the horrors

 

 

A quote from someone who knows these engines......

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"Let’s attempt to inventory some of the typical flaws we find in the Indian Petter. Some of these flaws have a root cause in the demand for these engines, if it were more steady, it would be far easier for an erector to retain trained employees. Here’s a partial list of faults.

1. Dirty assemblies, engines assembeled on a sandy floor, and sometimes the castings still have pockets of casting sand in them.
2. Poorly finished parts, cranks lacking the proper fillets or finishes.
3. Cylinders not installed perpendiciliar to the crank center.
4. tappets hardened, but critical surfaces not re-ground to assure they are square and of a proper finish.
5. Poor fitting gaskets, no use of more effective modern sealants like RTV.
6. Cylinder Liners that are not set right in the water jacket. The height of the liner needs to be set just above the top of the cylinder to spec to assure a good seal at the fire ring.
7. Contaminated head gaskets (sometimes full of sand)
8. Contaminated bushings and bearings (sometimes full of sand)
9. Timing gears poorly made, this includes in accuracies in the machine work, and the wrong materials used.
10. Unfinished parts, like the critical end of rockers, where they meet the top of a valve cap.
11. Cylinders set too high or low where the compression is not set properly.
12. Cams and Governors assembled with less than the full machining. some examples provide very poor governor response.

The above list is incomplete but give you an idea of what many of us have found in Indian production, and as of today, I don’t know of any supplier who has a proper Quality Assurance program."

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Edited May 19, 2013 by onionbargee

[brickie]

Thanks mate,

Wow I don't think I will bother.

[MtB]

They sound nice though....

 

 

MtB

[brickie]

So does breaking glass.

[Magic Potion]

So does breaking glass.

Agreed, great film and soundtrack.

[madcat]

So will you just politely turn away,or something like that anyway.