On 13/04/07, Phil Rushton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J.R.Alsop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:18 PM > Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Reluctantly firing JP > > > > Having worked a JP3 in a Bantam tug for the last two years the best > advice > that I can give is give it a good thrashing!. get >the low compression out > and > give it hell, a big engine like that does not like popping along firing at > every > other bridge hole!. >If you want to see how a good one runs come and see > one > pushing a 100 ton load load, thats what they like.Give me a >call. > > The trouble might be that you cannot give a JP3 (in a modern narrowboat) > a good thrashing on the canals. Well not unless you want to upset a few > people, although BW and their contractors try hard at times! ;-(
Yes, but rivers upstream are a totally different matter :) I'm serious that at high revs our engine will decoke itself in that it throws out bits of carbon the size of fingernails. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
