Repair of Diesel Engines Services are operated continuously irrespective of its application whether they are installed in diesel power plants, heavy industry, or on ships. The maintenance schedule of the diesel engine is followed in most of cases as per the engine manufacturer’s manual. The dedicated team of technicians and engineers takes care of day to day maintenance and operation of the engine. Despite all the precautions taken, it is observed that major accidents in crankshafts take place, few of the reasons are as follows.
Crankshaft Failure
- Use of nonstandard lubricating oil or using it for an extended time without changing it.
- Use of bearings beyond the operating hours specified in the maintenance manual of the engine manufacturer.
- Use of substandard lubricating oil filters and using them beyond the specified hours.
- Not maintaining the lubricating oil temperature and oil gap as per the maintenance manual.
- Use of substandard quality bearings.
- Not carrying out the periodical inspection of the crankshaft at the time of undertaking maintenance.
- Non-calibration of crankpin and main journal diameter for taper and ovality.
- Ignoring of crankpin and main journal line marks, pitting, rough surface.
- Increase in deflection readings.
- Non-replacement of connecting rods in case of abnormalities observed.
- Non-calibration of connecting rods big end bore and small end bore.
- Non-inspection of connecting rods, bolts for cracks or distortion, and tightening torque.
As mentioned the crankshaft failure can be caused due to not paying attention to the above.
RA Power Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has been working on the crankshaft of medium and high-capacity engines, 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines for four decades and strongly suggests that all the parameters mentioned in the maintenance manual of the engine manufacturer should be checked. The checks mentioned above are of great importance and we have experienced that most of the crankshaft and engine Get damaged due to ignoring the above points, the user can extend the life of the engine considerably by following the above checks. RA Power Solutions undertakes onsite repair of the crankpin journal and main journal Grinding of the crankshaft.
The following are the main features of crankshaft journal repair
- We undertake crankshaft grinding, and repair of crankshafts having diameters from 35 mm to 700 mm irrespective of the length of the crankshaft.
- The crankshaft repair is undertaken onsite, there is no requirement for the removal of the crankshaft from the engine block.
- All the parameters like taper ovality, and surface finish as mentioned in the maintenance manual are strictly maintained.
- Crankshaft journal repair & Crankshaft journal Grinding are done onsite and by use of the latest crankshaft grinding machine, the repairs are done in minimum time reducing the downtime considerably.
- We can depute technicians on short notice all over the world and our technicians have valid Indian CDC. We also depute our engineers to undertake reinspection of the crankshaft with the calibrated instrument and regrinding of the crank journal if required can be done on the spot.
For more information on crankpin journal repair, grinding of crankshaft main journal, and repair of crankshaft main journal, please email us at rajshahani@rapowersolutions.com, or info@rapowersolutions.com, or call us at +91 9582647131 or +91 9810012383.
