Interested in diesel powered boats but 617 porn shots would be the breast.

Well many Mercedes engines where adapted for boats since they marketed their first diesels. I think the earliest I have ever seen was one in a Norwegian trawler. The Germans used it as a patrol vessel in the second world war. It had sails as well. This was back in the seventies and it still was in service.

Sorry no pix but my local recycler has sold bucketloads (his term) of OM617s and 616s for use in boats.

He has always like that market as many of them have no issues buying the smokey ones.

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If a boat motor requires a special degree of cooling ,what would be the best way to address this for the 617? An outboard motor pulls water up a shaft thru an opening at the lower point of the unit which is close to the propeller.An inboard engine commonly uses a special header which pulls water into a jacket and cycles this while the engine is running greatly reducing the heads temp and headers temp.If I found the right project boat ,say an 18 ft inboard ski boat ,I could make easy dependable power with the 617 once the cooling problem is worked out.

I am planning a similar project with a 603.

A turbo engine has different needs, you keep the exhaust hot until it has exited the turbo, then you inject water into the exhaust stream. Non-turbo has water jacketed exhaust manifolds and risers where water is added to the exhaust stream.

Also, being a diesel, you will need closed-circuit cooling, so you will need a raw-water pump added to the engine to pump the raw water from your intake strainer through your heat exchangers (oil cooler, radiator, and intercooler are all replaced by heat exchangers). Finally, in boats you typically need to change the electrical parts over to spark-protected devices (more important on gasoline, but normally done on diesel anyway).

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Yep I currently have one that came out of a boat and is setup for boat