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$37k w/ tandem trailer

1990 Pelican Bay Sport 26' w/ 4.2L turbo diesel

Not many pictures. Locate in Ukie and just posted (Dec 20)
 
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$37k w/ tandem trailer

1990 Pelican Bay Sport 26' w/ 4.2L turbo diesel

Not many pictures. Locate in Ukie and just posted (Dec 20)
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I remember seeing that boat before...the custom hoisting brackets are pretty distinctive.


Google that 4.2L diesel Cummins/VM Motori/Mercury. Here's a snippet from a thread on THT about that motor:

I had the first set of these engines in a US recreational boat in June 2007 in a 2008 38 Fountain Sportfish Cruiser. They were an instant nightmare because the Cummins Mercruiser joint venture was a total shitshow.

What was billed as a Cummins engine with Mercury Bravo III outdrives was really, as noted above, a VM Motori engine, made in Italy. The engine is actually the successsor to a BMW Diesel engine and was commonly used in buses in Europe.

The problem was was not so much the engine, which is actually a pretty good engine, but the complete and utter lack of preparation and support for its introduction into the US.

Now, the engines I got had problems from the beginning too because they weren’t properly marinized. Within the first few weeks things started to fail from dissimilar metals corroding. A turbo waste gate fell off, a pin hole leak developed in the common rail fuel line, fuel line sensors failed, and more.

And no no one at Cummins, which had the servicing responsibility, had ever heard of the engines, seen them, had parts, or had a clue.

I went nuts. For two months, Cummins didn’t even have the diagnostic software to check the code faults. I was all over Cummins, threatening them with lawsuits. They had no parts at all in the US and I was having them overnight in parts from Italy.

At one point, I had them replace one of the engines which had ingested sea water. Another time, a stud on a valve cover sheered off. The factory in Italy was closed in August. Cummins had to strip down a sample engine in the US to get the $2 stud to fix my engine because we had broken down on a family trip. Our two week boat trip was shot and we had to abandon the boat at a yard 100 miles from home port and rent a car and a hose for our vacation.


It took a good 2 years before Cummins established training and support and supplies in the US to service these engines. Soon thereafter, the joint venture between Cummins and Mercruiser fell apart. Mercury Diesel picked up the engine. That was actually the best thing to happen because then you could deal with Mercruiser and order parts through them.

Nowadays parts are are easy to come by through the Mercruiser parts system.

I put well over 2000 hours on these engines and they were actually pretty good at the end of the day. But the big problem was the Bravo IIIs. They simply couldn’t handle the torque of these engines. Every two to theee years, they’d get ripped apart and I’d have to replace or rebuild the upper or lower units.

But these engines had had fantastic power and fuel efficiency.
https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/985316-cummins-mercruiser-qsd-4-2l-320-hp.html
 
Pineapple Express said:
I remember seeing that boat before...the custom hoisting brackets are pretty distinctive.


Google that 4.2L diesel Cummins/VM Motori/Mercury. Here's a snippet from a thread on THT about that motor:

I had the first set of these engines in a US recreational boat in June 2007 in a 2008 38 Fountain Sportfish Cruiser. They were an instant nightmare because the Cummins Mercruiser joint venture was a total shitshow.

What was billed as a Cummins engine with Mercury Bravo III outdrives was really, as noted above, a VM Motori engine, made in Italy. The engine is actually the successsor to a BMW Diesel engine and was commonly used in buses in Europe.

The problem was was not so much the engine, which is actually a pretty good engine, but the complete and utter lack of preparation and support for its introduction into the US.

Now, the engines I got had problems from the beginning too because they weren’t properly marinized. Within the first few weeks things started to fail from dissimilar metals corroding. A turbo waste gate fell off, a pin hole leak developed in the common rail fuel line, fuel line sensors failed, and more.

And no no one at Cummins, which had the servicing responsibility, had ever heard of the engines, seen them, had parts, or had a clue.

I went nuts. For two months, Cummins didn’t even have the diagnostic software to check the code faults. I was all over Cummins, threatening them with lawsuits. They had no parts at all in the US and I was having them overnight in parts from Italy.

At one point, I had them replace one of the engines which had ingested sea water. Another time, a stud on a valve cover sheered off. The factory in Italy was closed in August. Cummins had to strip down a sample engine in the US to get the $2 stud to fix my engine because we had broken down on a family trip. Our two week boat trip was shot and we had to abandon the boat at a yard 100 miles from home port and rent a car and a hose for our vacation.


It took a good 2 years before Cummins established training and support and supplies in the US to service these engines. Soon thereafter, the joint venture between Cummins and Mercruiser fell apart. Mercury Diesel picked up the engine. That was actually the best thing to happen because then you could deal with Mercruiser and order parts through them.

Nowadays parts are are easy to come by through the Mercruiser parts system.

I put well over 2000 hours on these engines and they were actually pretty good at the end of the day. But the big problem was the Bravo IIIs. They simply couldn’t handle the torque of these engines. Every two to theee years, they’d get ripped apart and I’d have to replace or rebuild the upper or lower units.

But these engines had had fantastic power and fuel efficiency.
https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/985316-cummins-mercruiser-qsd-4-2l-320-hp.html
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It’s been for sale for a while, was posted 6-7 months ago
 

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1990 Seasport Skipper 1900 podded w/ trailer and new 200 suzi

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