Just curious, If this is a Japanese engine, how come the signs are in
Korean?

Bob W.

 

Typical in the big engine business is to license many sources around the world so that each country

can have its own "In country source" rather than suffering the loss of face by having to use another countries engine in your ships. Done by all of the big engine people and for all of the support pieces like fuel injection.

 

Colt industries builds Pielstick engines and L'orange fuel injection under license and calls the pieces Colt.

 

LicenseTorg

DieselKiki

Crosley

Colt

and many others all make the Pielstick engines and sell parts. A US Navy ship can pull alongside a Russian trauler and buy a delivery valve, or barrel and plunger, or a whole fuel injection pump and be confident it will work perfectly on a Colt built Pielstick engine. I worked on a lot of this stuff for the Government when we were still free

 

Curtis Wright and later John Deer had a perfect Wankel replacement for the Colt/ (old Fairbanks Morse) 38D81/8 opposed piston 2 cycle diesel used on subs and aircraft carriers. But the Navy decided the 1930s design was good enough.

 

Lynn E. Hanover