X-Dimension documents

• GENERAL DATA and DISCUSSION
  • Manual Of Useful Information, dated Aug 2011
    Previous owner's information about many of X-Dimension's systems and advice for sailing her.
    This report intermixes various helpful hints concerning various deck hardware, electrical circuitry, machinery, and other systems.
  • QUESTIONS to above Manual of Useful Info
    questions and assumptions about the above document,
    to ask prior owner about and/or to research aboard.

POWER TRAIN

• Engine Tech Manual: Engine Workshop Manual for 4.108 Diesel Engine dated 1983, Pub. 601 SER 0383 1072, 114 pages.
  • note 1: This manual provides some information of use to sailors operating the engine and transmission and troubleshooting them from "outside" the units. However, it also contains a lot of data for mechanics who are dis-assembling and overhauling or repairing internal parts which are not applicable to operation or the ship's maintainers.
  • note 2: Perkins has been subsumed by Caterpillar, and we can't get info directly from Perkins. Our local representative, KraftPower, Woburn, confirmed that the 1983 manual was the last printing before our circa 1939 engine was installed (it was "new in 1989" per the donor's | "Useful Info" manual.
    

• Engine Parts Manual:
  • web: 1981: "Core and Option Parts Book", NAP000265 Issue 1, October 1981; Perkins Engines Inc, North American Division, 4.108 M; 106 pages
  • web: 1975:(no title) dated 1975, NAPB#54, 41 pages (of unknown # of pages in complete document);
    this partial manual is referenced by several non-dealer websites, usually indicated as "(partial)", gets into 16th of 22 sections.

• notes:
  • • note 1: This manual is helpful in locating parts pictorially and giving their names (thus a hint at their function) for 20 different related group of parts. Although many of these parts are of interest only to mechanics overhauling engines, SOME parts are of great interest to users of the engine.
    • note 2: We have asked the dealer for the revision (date) of the parts doc for our "new in 1989" engine, since this manual is dated 1975.
    • note 3: The PDF file only has 15-1/2 of the 22 groups of parts listed in the contents page; ones we see which we obviously want include electrical equipment, wiring harness, throttle control kit, instrument panel, temp & oil-press transmitters, etc.
    • We have requested revision info and availability of this manual from KraftPower via email (30Aug11.)

ELECTRONICS

• Manuals available online for several electronics devices are listed in X Dimension's | Systems Description;
  hardcopy manuals will be entered into THIS document list.