Zincs

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Dec 22, 2012
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East Central Florida
Boat Info
1980 SeaRay Express Cruiser SRV 360
Engines
Twin 3208s - Turbo Charged
Does ANYBODY know where the zincs are located on the 3208? turbo only.

I've heard that there are 7 but I have no clue where to look?

Are the heads for the zincs marked any differently ... all the bolt heads look pretty much the same.

Thanks in advance,
 
Pull out your Cat 3208 Engine manual and look in the index for zincs. Then find the page of the egine breakdown that indicates where the zincs are located. Copy the page and use a colored marker to high light the zinc locations and the laminate it so you will have it for future use. You will probably also have some additional zincs in exhahust elbos and in your gen set as well.

Best thing I ever did to make the change faster no matter how many times I've done it. You can also order from Boat Zinc.com kits pre packaged with everything you need for your engine which I do as well. Not the cheapest way but certainly one of the easy ways.
 
My engine has fewer zincs than the engine manual says. I only have two per engine. Both are on the heat exchanger, one on either end, one is large and one is small. Manual states one on the aftercooler and one on transmission oil cooler but mine don't have those. Generator has one on the heat exchanger.
 
I'd be concerned with why you don't have wha the manual says. I try to keep my kitty cats to OEM specs and I do not rely on general maintence as you can put 43 lbs of air in every car tire but if that's not the spec recommended for that tire/vehicle I want to know why. You might want to consult with a Cat specialist which I am not and see why. It doesn't make since IMHO that the engine didn't follow the written spec and If I were having an engine checkout and it didn't have the OEM recommended number of zincs I'd be leary of the owner's maintenance. What you have might be correct but I'd want to know where Cat recommended a change before I'd accept that info IMHO.
 

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