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MDB1 – Maintenance, Lay-up, Winter Protection, Tropical Storage, Spring Recommission

Maintain your engine with confidence. 141 essential maintenance and lay-up tasks for your diesel engines and saildrives.


English – French – German – Italian – Portuguese – Spanish

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Marine Diesel Basics 1 – Maintenance front covers of English editions


MDB2 – How Everything Works,
Installation Guidelines, Best Practices


680-page book, with 2700+ drawings, is published in two volumes - volume
A and volume B:

  • spiral (lies flat when open)
  • paperback
  • hardcover

Order both volumes together for a 10% discount here

12-page Table of Contents here

3D cover Volume A of Marine Diesel Basics 2 - How Everything Works
Inspect Cutlass Bearing - Marine Diesel Basics 1
MDB1 – Inspecting a cutlass bearing
Electrical sample page 1 from Marine diesel Basics 2 vol B
MDB2 – Electrical sample page
Marine Diesel Basics2 – sample page fuel contamination
MDB2 – Preventing fuel contamination
3D cover Volume B of Marine Diesel Basics 2 - How Everything Works

Maintenance Logbooks – Single and Twin engine installations – 50+ drawings, available in 5 languages. Keeping a logbook is one of the simplest and easiest ways to improve the maintenance of your engine(s).

ENG MLog Both 3D

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 Maintenance eLogbook

Use your iPad, tablet or desktop:

  • record all work done as you're working
  • plan tasks with clickable scheduling
  • belts, filters & parts numbers in one place
  • smart summaries of oil, impeller changes etc.
  • real-time calculators for most conversions & measures
  • metric, fractional and decimal inch conversions

196 pages  $7.99       learn more & download free sample

$11.99 for twin engine installations (copies of the eLogbook)

 

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