Section 11 Engines – Detailed requirements
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Section 11 Engines – Detailed requirements

Parent topic: Chapter 3 Periodical Survey Regulations

11.1 Complete Surveys

11.1.1 The requirements of Pt 1, Ch 3, 10.3 Complete Survey of machinery are to be complied with as far as is applicable.

11.1.2 The following parts are to be opened out and examined, but see also Pt 1, Ch 3, 10.3 Complete Survey of machinery 10.3.10:

Cylinders, covers, valves and valve gear, pistons, piston rods, crossheads, guides, connecting rods, crankshafts and all bearings, bedplates, crankcase door fastenings and explosion relief devices, scavenge blowers, superchargers and their associated coolers, air compressors and their intercoolers, filters and/or separators and safety devices, fuel pumps and fittings, camshaft drives, torsional vibration dampers or detuners, flexible couplings, clutches, reverse gears, attached pumps and cooling arrangements.

11.1.3 Selected pipes in the starting air system are to be removed for internal examination and are to be hammer tested. If any appreciable amount of lubricating oil is found in the pipes, the starting air system is to be thoroughly cleaned internally by steaming out, or other suitable means. Some of the pipes selected are to be those adjacent to the starting air valves at the cylinders and to the discharges from the air compressors.

11.1.4 The electric starting system, if fitted, is to be examined and tested.

11.1.5 The manoeuvring of engines is to be tested under working conditions. Initial starting arrangements are to be tested.

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