Hi all,
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The admiral and I have been thinking about upgrading from our gas 330DA into something bigger with diesel for a while now. We found a beautiful 2002 460DA with 450 Diamonds and made an agreement with the seller and got an accepted offer on our 330 all in the same day!
The 460 only has 290 hours on the mains. We just got the oil samples back, however. The port motor was ‘yellow’ due to high Aluminum content. It has 22ppm whereas the starboard motor has 10. According to the seller, the oil was changed last October and has about 30 hours on it.
How much of a concern is this? They both started up cold perfectly and idle fine with no smoke. Our sea-trial/survey is set for this Thursday. Obviously we’ll learn more then, but I wonder if the high aluminum in the sample is such that we should run away and save the $ we’d be spending for the survey.
On another note, our 330 had it’s sea-trial/survey yesterday and passed beautifully. It’ll likely close this week. Great not having to be ‘two-boat owners’, but we don’t want to be boatless in the middle of the summer!
Thanks in advance for your opinions...
Been reading this site for a few years. Finally decided to sign up and sponsor. Gotten well over my fee paid worth of knowledge from all of you...
The admiral and I have been thinking about upgrading from our gas 330DA into something bigger with diesel for a while now. We found a beautiful 2002 460DA with 450 Diamonds and made an agreement with the seller and got an accepted offer on our 330 all in the same day!
The 460 only has 290 hours on the mains. We just got the oil samples back, however. The port motor was ‘yellow’ due to high Aluminum content. It has 22ppm whereas the starboard motor has 10. According to the seller, the oil was changed last October and has about 30 hours on it.
How much of a concern is this? They both started up cold perfectly and idle fine with no smoke. Our sea-trial/survey is set for this Thursday. Obviously we’ll learn more then, but I wonder if the high aluminum in the sample is such that we should run away and save the $ we’d be spending for the survey.
On another note, our 330 had it’s sea-trial/survey yesterday and passed beautifully. It’ll likely close this week. Great not having to be ‘two-boat owners’, but we don’t want to be boatless in the middle of the summer!
Thanks in advance for your opinions...