Beta Marine Engines

JayBietz · JayBietz

Hi: I was doing a spring service on the enging and noticed a lot of black dust on the 100 A alternator. See attached photo. Is this a concern? I assume that I can just vacuum it up. Jay Bietz -- Edited by JayBietz on Sunday 8th of May 2011 08:58:08 PM

egantsea · egantsea

We have had installed a 38hp Beta marine engine with transmission. It replaced a Perkins 4-108 50 hp We have a 36 ft Islander Freeport sail boatOur water heater is higher than the engine. It had a small stainless steel water tank for filling the engine with fluid. Worked good for 32 years with the Perkin...

Zoe · Zoe

On our power boat Beta 60 instalation point X is 8" above the water line is this considerd to close? and the minium should in fact be no less than 12" which is where they show the Anti syphon valve in the manual. Better to be safe than sorry I know. Zoe

alteredcourse30 · alteredcourse30

Hi Stanley..thankyou so much for all your advice last summer....the beta 20 is working great...was inservice around july 2010, oil has been changed once so far....in August (engine and tranny)the engine has about 60hrs on it....For Spring use I was going to change oil and filter, also secondary fu...

Endacott · Endacott

Our VDO tach (Beta 43 with 1600 hours) is gone all weird. It rarely shows the actual engine speed, at best sort of hovering in a 200 rpm cyclic. Usually the needle just parks itself in the 1200 rpm range and sits there. I swapped out the alternator (Iskra 100 amp) to find no improvement so I begin to suspe...

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	Beta 1505 - Black dust on alternator (Preview) Hi: I was doing a spring service on the enging and noticed a lot of black dust on the 100 A alternator. See attached photo. Is this a concern? I assume that I can just vacuum it up. Jay Bietz -- Edited by JayBietz on Sunday 8th of May 2011 08:58:08 PM	JayBietz	2	1927	May 9, 2011 by JayBietz
	Water heater higher than motor (Preview) We have had installed a 38hp Beta marine engine with transmission. It replaced a Perkins 4-108 50 hp We have a 36 ft Islander Freeport sail boatOur water heater is higher than the engine. It had a small stainless steel water tank for filling the engine with fluid. Worked good for 32 years with the Perkin...	egantsea	4	1921	May 8, 2011 by Stanley
	Exhaust System Syphoning (Preview) On our power boat Beta 60 instalation point X is 8" above the water line is this considerd to close? and the minium should in fact be no less than 12" which is where they show the Anti syphon valve in the manual. Better to be safe than sorry I know. Zoe	Zoe	1	1841	May 6, 2011 by Stanley
	maintenance - pre-spring checks.... (Preview) Hi Stanley..thankyou so much for all your advice last summer....the beta 20 is working great...was inservice around july 2010, oil has been changed once so far....in August (engine and tranny)the engine has about 60hrs on it....For Spring use I was going to change oil and filter, also secondary fu...	alteredcourse30	7	1509	Apr 29, 2011 by Farron
	VDO Tach Irregular (Preview) Our VDO tach (Beta 43 with 1600 hours) is gone all weird. It rarely shows the actual engine speed, at best sort of hovering in a 200 rpm cyclic. Usually the needle just parks itself in the 1200 rpm range and sits there. I swapped out the alternator (Iskra 100 amp) to find no improvement so I begin to suspe...	Endacott	1	1125	Apr 28, 2011 by Stanley
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