{"id":8901,"date":"2009-10-25T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T21:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2009-10-25T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T02:03:21","slug":"engine-exhaust-line-valves-are-they-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/engine-exhaust-line-valves-are-they-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine Exhaust Line Valves &#8211; Are They Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fpb-64-prog-19-oct-23-09-112.jpg\" alt=\"FPB-64-prog-19-OCT-23-09--112\" width=\"576\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Valves in the exhaust system of diesel engines are a mixed blessing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Detailed correctly they offer protection from humidity in storage, and from boarding seas underway in heavy going. Their necessity depends on the type of cruising being done, the exhaust design, location of exhaust, and in particular the height of the exhaust riser.<\/p>\n<p>The FPB 64s have shut off valves on both the engine and genset. In 99.99% of conceivable situations these will not be required. We are fitting them for a worst case scenario, where propulsion is lost and the boat is hove to behind a para anchor, or hanging on a drogue off the stern.<\/p>\n<p>Being in the exhaust line the valve body can potentially accumulate soot and salt, so the valves should be periodically cycled to maintain their freedom of movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valves in the exhaust system of diesel engines are a mixed blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}