Volvo Penta Diesel Engine Repair

Volvo Penta KAMD 300 Diesel Engine Repair. This engine had an cooler gasket failure which dumped the engine oil into the hull of the Jeanneau Prestige 32 power boat. The engine was starved of oil & cylinders 1 & 6 picked up and seized the engine. Watch the video to see how we repaired it.

[@vipermarn]

A mistake I've noticed... Brand-new Liner and Piston assemblies should always be separated and the liner walls thoroughly cleaned due to honing fine grits left over in honed grooves, also at the same time the piston ring positions should be rechecked and repositioned.. It's a standard Volvo and Caterpillar engine rebuild standard(s) ... All in all your courage and passion are admired ... Kiwis are watch🤣🤣

[@Diver114]

Wow. What a work! I wish you guys were here in the north of Norway. With that quality of work all the fishermen would come to repair their engines to you. I would be among the first ones.

[@nexpro6985]

I've got to work on one of these that has a massive turbo fitted. My friend thought it only had 3 cylinders. When I first saw it in the boat only three cylinders were visible with the front part of the rear deck up. I crouched down and started counting cylinders. "Three, four, five, six, mahoosive turbo." You should have seen the look on his face.

[@serjeoindahouse9345]

Greetings from Spain Thank you very much for the video. My engine model is older tamd 41a, but I think the overhaul principle is the same.

[@melsmotors]

@@serjeoindahouse9345 thanks for watching and commenting 👍☺️

[@alsilawisami]

Excellent job, mate love the no fear skills❤

[@jasonr5357]

Nice video. Nice work. Nice engine. Music gave me a sore head though

[@melsmotors]

Thanks for commenting, all the latest tech now has volume control to manage my irritating music ☺️ Thanks for watching

[@PeterDahl-d4x]

Valveclearance is done wrong. Follow info from VolvoPenta. Many diesel engines with 4 valve per cylinder has a oak over pair of valves. These must be leveld so when rockerarm hits oak it opens both valves at the same time. No feelergauge needed here ,just leveling. The 0,40 mm is set by adjusting the rockerarm set screw on top of the lifterrods. Peter from Sweden familiar to rockercrashes on Volvo Penta KAD44/300 engines.

[@LaCostexxO]

If You're using those piston kits from SLP it's smart to reinstall the pistons because sometimes they manage to fuck up the ring positioning.

[@melsmotors]

Thanks for the advise, the boat is running a dream and my friend is happy, the other engine seems to be having a few health issues, the oil pressure is much lower that this one. I didn't buy the parts so not sure where they from. Thanks for watching and commenting

[@LaCostexxO]

@@melsmotors There might be a leaking oil injector or simply bad bearings. Changing camshaft ones on this engine is a nightmare. Otherwise these are pretty bulletproof.

[@Check321-t3t]

What has your experience been - the ring gaps are lined up?...or the first and second rings are mixed up?...or rings on upside down?

[@LaCostexxO]

Yeah, the gaps were lined up, I started to check all of them from thay point and saw a few that were close to being in line.@@Check321-t3t

[@AchikSarih]

Merci beaucoup ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@nickspeller3372]

Having spent all that money on new pistons etc I think Id have asked you to check the crankshaft too. Any reason why you wouldnt bother?

[@mansourbenyamina2157]

Excellent travail. Pouvez-vous réaliser une vidéo pédagogique sur les pièces du circuit d'huile et de refroidissement pour les débutants ?

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

Man U opening that box was beautiful like Christmas to me ,man I wan5 to rebuild my tamd70 c

[@benjaminheale5856]

What was the cost of repair

[@jordiclavaestacas2224]

Muy importante. Por seguridad, quando se levanta un motor con el Toro o carretilla elevadora es importante poner un sargento o pinza de presion a la punta de los cuernos, para asegurar que la cadena no resbale y pueda caer el motor. Aunque se le de inclinacion a la torreta para atras, el mismo peso del motor puede hacer que una pequeña perdida del hidraulico la incline hacia delante y pueda caer el motor.

[@benjaminheale5856]

What was the cost of repair

[@esbrasill]

yes, some forklifts have a hole in the tip or the fork so you can put a bolt in it to keep the chain from slipping and get someone killed

[@airbagjackets]

Wow! Now that's an engine ! Fascinating to see and can't wait for part II. Is part III "Mel in the med" ??? ;-)

[@melsmotors]

🤣 I wish I had the time to be in the Med, thanks for watching

[@anndivine9989]

Did you inspect or replace th crankshaft mains ? ?

[@andreasmeier716]

Unfortunately, as I see it, you did it wrong! The new liners with the pistons have not been oiled!! The piston must not be moved without oil.

[@melsmotors]

Thanks for your input, but your talking nonsense. The job of the piston rings is to create compression and scrape away oil with oil control ring! You put oil in the liner, push the piston and this will scrape away all the oil, rendering the added oil useless! If I was fitting the pistons into the liner then yes I would use oil to aid in assembly. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊👍

[@kenmcvie6350]

Why not check the main bearings as well?

[@melsmotors]

I did, it didn't need them 👍

[@ralph9987]

How much were parts alone?

[@melsmotors]

Hi, I didn't buy the parts, the customer did, I recall that it was over £2000, hope this helps

[@naturalproducts7374]

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[@HadjMbarekAchrafMaram]

Il y a l'eau de mer dans le carter d'huile... Pourquoi ?

[@melsmotors]

Il n'y avait pas d'eau de mer dans le puisard ! Il n'y avait pas d'eau dans le carter, peut-être de l'antigel après avoir retiré la culasse du joint !

[@butterfly_8241]

Where do you get your parts from? Cheers.

[@melsmotors]

the customer bought the parts direct from the manufacturer who makes it for Volvo. I believe it was Keypart Ltd in Kings Langley. It wasn't cheap so prepare yourself 😉

[@1sibenikadi23]

job without any measurements taken. Liner protrusion with engine block hasnt taken,piston rings positioning hasnt taken ,conrod bushings hasnt taken...etc looks like Ikea job

[@christopheeyd4466]

Bonsoir je suis sur le point d'acheter un antares805 moteur tamd41 b jusqu'à 2 mille 500 tours tout va bien au delà 3000 tours grosse fumée noire huile qui sort par l'échappement dès que l'on réduit les gaz tout redevient normal merci de votre aide cordialement Chris

[@carmenrumano2674]

No me gusta el sistema de trabajo y eso de no sacar los pitones de las camisa para mirar los aros no esta bien trabajar con el motor de esa manera es de loco

[@melsmotors]

Hola, no estoy muy seguro de lo que estás diciendo. Gracias por ver y comentar. 👍

[@johngibson3837]

Called checking the ring gaps mate

[@johngibson3837]

So go then I've know volvo penta for over 30 years and a well renound engines why did it not have a sump drain plug and you didn't say why those two pistons were fxxxed

[@melsmotors]

The oil cooler failed dumping the oil into the hull, another mechanic repaired the cooler issue in situ, it went on for a while until it failed. There's no drain plug because you can't get to it in a hull, you have to warm the engine up and suck the warm runny oil out! 🙂👍

[@PeterDahl-d4x]

Some oilcoolers on KAD 42,43,44,300 has a boken guideplate that stops cooling oil. If you run the engine at high load, meassure oil temp. Oilpressure runs low on gauges under 2 bar, pistoncooling does not work and trouble comes. Open oilcoolers every 8 to 10 year.