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    Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide
    Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide
    Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide
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    Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide

    By Nigel Calder

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    When it's sink or swim, this Quick Guide will keep you afloat!

    On the water, when an engine problem surfaces, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. Diesel Engine Care and Repair provides all the answers--fast.

    Drawn from the world's largest boating library, it presents 14 color panels of authoritative, concise information on diesel engines. This on-the-spot reference is a convenient, accessible, and utterly streamlined information resource.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateFeb 14, 2007
    ISBN9780071508865
    Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide

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      Very helpful tips on maintaining you engine. Loved it.?Awesome info!!

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    Diesel Engine Care and Repair - Nigel Calder

    Diesel Engine Care and Repair

    Nigel Calder

    Copyright © 2007 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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    The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-147468-4.

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