Diesel Engine Maintenance: Why It Matters

9am – 10.30am EST, 29 January 2025 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Looping 101 Track

Discover and learn basic diesel engine maintenance and how to keep it healthy, running and why it’s important to know. Gain knowledge and practical tips on diesel fuel systems and filtration. How a Racor filter works and what’s involved with changing one. Learn the differences between an open and closed cooling system and how critical it is to maintain them. Strainers, water pump impellors, heat exchangers and engine zincs are critical to keep engine temperatures in check. Changing your engine’s oil and testing it can be a challenge. Find out how to make it clean and easy and monitor the internal workings of the engine with oil analysis. These are all maintenance items you can do yourself and feel more comfortable about doing while keeping some money in your pocket.

Location:  Hibiscus Hall A

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Jay Kraft

Trawlers Great Lakes

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Jay Kraft

Trawlers Great Lakes

Water and boats have always been a part of Jay’s timeline.  Hailing from Traverse City, Michigan, his boating career began by pushing his 9’ pram off the beach of an inland lake in Michigan as a child and running a GunBoat 48 on the East Coast and Caribbean has enhanced that timeline.  As the founder of Bay Breeze Yacht Sales and Trawlers Great Lakes, Jay has also been the Nordic Tug dealer for the Midwest since 2002; trawlers have been the focus since then. Jay remains actively involved in the day-to-day and routine maintenance of the Trawlers Great Lakes fleet while sharing his knowledge with clients on how they can save time and money by taking on vessel maintenance themselves.