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The Lehman Manufacturing Company was formed in 1931. By 1957, they were producing marinizing components for a wide variety for gasoline engines including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and Willys (see Lehman Catalog #28 ©1957). In the early 1960's, Lehman began manufacturing marinizing components for many of the diesel engine models produced by Ford of Britain after 1952. Lehman marketed these marinizing components in kits so other parties could marinize various new and used Ford diesel engines, many of which were taken out of tractors, lorries, harvesters, rock crushers, generators, and the like. Early in 1965, Lehman started buying brand new diesel engines from Ford and marinizing them. These included the popular Lehman 80 and Lehman 120. Lehman became very successful marketing these marinized Ford engines to boatbuilders worldwide.

See EAB's Lehman Mfg. Co. article for more details, contact information,
PLUS information about their other products.

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Lehman SP355 (Super 355)
(Ford-NH BSD 678)

Lehman produced and marketed the Lehman SP355 (Super 355) from 1987 to 1993 by marinizing new 7.8 litre displacement Ford New Holland (Brazilian) BSD 678 HTA turbocharged base engines. These were robust “old school” engines that featured overhead valves operated by rockers, push rods and flat tappets by a camshaft located low in the left-hand side of the cylinder block and parallel to the horizontal crankshaft. The six inline cast-in-block parent bore cylinders were oriented vertically and the mechanical fuel injection sprayed diesel directly into the combustion chamber machined into the crown of each aluminium alloy solid skirt piston. It was fitted with a water cooled turbocharger and a twin-pass water cooled intercooler. The cylinder walls in the engine block were thick enough that they were capable of being bored to fit oversized pistons or bored even larger to fit repair sleeves and standard sized pistons or oversized pistons, thus making the engine rebuildable repeatedly.

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Industrial Engine Operation ⇒ Ford Power Products

Ford Motor Company has long been an industry leader in supplying powertrain systems to the industrial and power generation markets. Originally established in 1947 as the "Industrial Engine Operation of Ford Motor Company", and going by several names over the years, Ford Power Products is now managed by Ford Component Sales: a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company. Back when they were called "Ford Industrial Power Products", they marketed diesel engines sourced from their tractor and truck divisions located mainly in Europe to the off-road OEMs including marinizers like Lehman, AmMarine, Bomac, Lees, Mermaid, Parsons, Sabre and Thorneycroft.

See our main Ford Industrial Power Products article for more details,
contact information, PLUS information about their other products.

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The Ford BSD 678 Industrial base engine that Lehman marinized to produce
the Lehman SP355 model is a member of the following Ford engine group.

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Ford New Holland "M" + "Brazilian" (BSD Series) Diesel Engines

The BSD Series is a large family of 112 mm (4.4") bore overhead valve engines originally developed in the 1960's by New Holland Machine Company and used in New Holland products, mainly their tractors and combines. The engines were designated the "M" series and produced with 3, 4, and 6 inline cylinders and with various strokes from over-square, to square, to under-square. This allowed the use of the same 3, 4 and 6 cylinder blocks with various crankshafts to produce a wide range of power and torque values with many of the parts being interchangeable. The engines were of the "Parent Bore" type where the pistons are initially fitted directly into the cast-in-block cylinder bores. The extra thick Parent bore cylinders could, if needed due to cylinder wear or scoring, be bored and honed to fit oversized pistons and rings, typically 0.020", 0.030", and 0.040" oversized, Or if needed, the Parent bore cylinders could be bored even more to fit cylinder repair sleeves, typically 4.506", 4.590", and 4.653" Outside Diameter (OD). The thicker repair sleeves could also be bored and honed to fit the oversized pistons if need be. The capability of replacing the repair sleeves when needed gave this engine the potential of being rebuilt over and over again indefinitely. The exhaust manifold was located on the opposite side of the engine to the intake manifold. This is called a crossflow head. This family of engines were favorably received and have broadly earned praise for their durability and dependability. They were initially marketed by New Holland to other OEMs, and later marketed through a joint venture with Ford by Ford Power Products for industrial and marine service as the BSD series. These base engines were marinized by Beta, Lehman, Mermaid, and Sabre.

Ford expanded its tractor business when it purchased the Sperry-New Holland skid-steer loader and hay baler, hay tools and implement company from Sperry Corporation in 1985 and formed Ford-New Holland with the tractor plant located northeast of Dagenham in Basildon, UK (see Fordson in Wikipedia).

After Ford acquired New Holland in 1985, Ford offered turbocharged versions of the New Holland 6.6L and the 7.8L engine in their Medium Duty F-600, F-800 and F-900 trucks, and in the Ford B series cowled bus chassis (an F series derivative). While the engines were officially the Ford-New Holland 6.6L and Ford-New Holland 7.8L, they are popularly known as the Ford "Brazilian" diesels as they were actually produced by New Holland of Brazil, and acquired through a joint-venture between New Holland of Brazil and Ford. The engines were well received for their durability and dependability, albeit somewhat under-powered. Ford stopped offering these engines in their trucks and buses at the end of the 1994 model year in favor of the more advanced engine designs of the Cummins 5.9L B-series and 8.3L C-series straight-six diesels that Ford had started phasing in back in 1992.

From DieselHub.com.

It's unfortunate that these New Holland engines were never developed to their full potential. The Cummins engines were simply cheaper and Ford could make more profit reselling them then marketing the more expensive, much heavier and more robust New Holland engines. Maybe, they were too good, to reliable, too expensive (initially), and ultimately too rebuildable to exist in our profit driven throw-away world.

In 1991, Ford exited the tractor manufacturing business altogether when it sold New Holland to Fiat. Fiat began phasing out the Ford engines and phasing in their own engines as they also began phasing out the Ford name which they completed by the year 2000. However, Ford was able to continue sourcing the BSD series vehicle and industrial engines from Case New Holland until 1994? and New Holland of Brazil until 1994?

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Specifications for Ford
Agricultural, Automotive, & Industrial Diesel Engines
And Popular Marinized Versions of These Engines

TABLE KEY:
Types of Engine Vendors: Engine design owners may produce the engines in-house as manufacturers.
^ Licensees are licensed by engine design owners to produce base engines and/or marine engines.
^ Marinizers buy base engines from the producers at wholesale, marinize them for marine service,
^ ^ and then sell them to boat builders, resellers, etc. at wholesale or to end users at retail.
^ Resellers buy marine engines at wholesale and resell them at a markup or at retail.
BASE ENGINE: Manufacturer/Vendor & Model of Base Engine followed by Specifications.
^ CYL: Cylinder Orientation & Configuration - (Dash w/no spaces) Number of Cylinders: (example: "V-8")
^ ^ Cylinder Orientation: No Code = u… = Upright (Vertical). s… = Slanted (Inclined). h… = Horizontal (Flat). 
^ ^ Cylinder Configuration: I = In-Line.
^ BORE & STROKE: …mm = Millimeters. …in = …" = Inches.
^ DISPLACEMENT = Swept Volume: …cc = Cubic Centimeters (cm³). …L = Liters. …ci = Cubic Inches (in³).
MODEL RATINGS: Base Engine Model, Vendor Rating Code, Duty Ratings, Power Ratings, etc.
^ A-F: Aspiration-Fueling: Intake Air uncharged or charged (with or w/o cooling) - Diesel Fueling Type.
^ ^ Aspiration: N = Naturally Aspirated. T = Turbocharged. …i = Intercooled. …a = Aftercooled.
^ ^ Diesel Fueling: M = Mechanical Injection. …d = Distributor Injection Pump. …I = In-line Injection Pump.
^ ^ ^ …ii = II = Integral Injector. C = Common Rail. E = …e = Electronic Injection.
^ ^ ^ …d = Direct Injection (into combustion chamber). …i = Indirect Injection (pre-combustion chamber).
^ DR = Duty Ratings: See the Engine Duty Ratings Description at the end of the Table.
^ ^ ♦♦ = Highest Power Rating from Data Sources.
^ POWER: kW = Kilowatts. HP = Horsepower. BHP = Brake Horsepower. SHP = SAE Horsepower.
^ ^ sHP = Shaft Horsepower. MHP = Metric Horsepower. PS = Pferdestärke (Metric Horsepower).
^ RPM = Power Ratings @ Revolutions Per Minute.
^ YEARS: Beginning-Ending. Trailing "–" (Dash) without an Ending Date = Still in Production/Available.
^ ^ YYYY usually = Model Year. MM/YY = actual Month/Year.
^ ^ Vendors typically market products after production ceases, often until stockpiles are exhausted.
^ DS = Data Source: Click DS Link to view DS. ♦♦♦ = Summary of Data Compiled from Multiple Sources.
^ ^ DS's 1st Letter = Vendor's 1st Letter (example: F = Ford). Wik = Wikipedia. BD = BoatDiesel.com.
^ ^ DS's 2nd Letter:  ...d = Directory. ...w = Webpage. ...c = Catalog. ...b = Brochure. ...s = SpecSheet.
^ ^ ^ ...o = Owner's/Operator's Manual. ...m = Service/Repair/Technical/Workshop/Shop Manual.
^ ^ ^ ...p = Parts Catalog. …# = Serial # List ...h = History. ...y = Years Vended (History). ...f = Forum.
^ ^ DS's Last Digits: ...1,2,3,A,B,C,etc = Source #, Version, Revision (example: Fc1 = Ford Catalog #1).
Data: ⊗ = Data Not Available from Data Source. ¿... = ...? = Data Unconfirmed/in Question.

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Ford-NHB "M" Series + "Brazilian"* Series (1987?-2008?) BSD Range
*Built by New Holland of Brazil under Joint-Venture with Ford/Case New Holland.
Features: Horizontal Crankshaft and Boreable "Parent Bore" Cylinders.

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FORD
Engine Duty Ratings

Agricultural:
A = Agricultural
AP = Agricultural - Pto (Power Takeoff)
M = Maximum

Automotive:
CM = Continuous Maximum
LV = Light Vehicle (Cars & Vans)

Industrial:
BS = B.S. = British Standards
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
CA = Continuous A: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours. (DIN 6270)
CB = Continuous B: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours. (DIN 6270)
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
OL = Overload*: Fuel injection rack at maximum fuel duration (Very Intermittent).

Marine:
80% = Rating @ 80% Power: Continuous.
100% = Rating @ 100% Power: Intermittent.
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
M = Maximum Power Output

Power Generation:
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
G = Generator
P = Generator Intermittent Peak Load

*The "OL = Overload" Duty Rating power output is achieved by these diesel engines only when the fuel injection control (the "rack" in most "Jerk" type fuel injection pumps) reaches maximum fuel duration and the engine is under heavy load. This "overload" power output is intended to be reached only occasionally for short duration situations such as when accelerating, as it results in over-fueling (a fuel rich mixture) that will cause rapid carbonization which in turn will severely shorten the service life of the engine. Therefore, it is recommended that the engine, gearing, propeller, etc. be set up so the fuel injection control will back off to a position that will provide the best ratio of fuel to air during sustained operation in order to achieve a long engine service life. Far too often, diesel marine engines are poorly matched to the watercraft by the builder and/or are over-propped with too much pitch, forcing them to suffer the serious consequences of over-fueling. See our article on Selecting the right diesel engine to discover a vital component that all diesel engines lack, but almost every gasoline engine is equipped with.

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Beta Marine
Engine Duty Ratings
DRAFT

Marine:
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.

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Lehman
Engine Duty Ratings

Industrial (See Ford Engine Duty Ratings):
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.

Marine:
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
W = Workboat: Continuous.
P = Pleasure Craft: Intermittent.
1 = Pleasure Craft: Maximum Overload
2 = Pleasure Craft: Continuous
2 = Workboat: Overload
3 = Workboat: Continuous
GP = Gross Power: Powerboat = 100%, Workboat = 90%.

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Mermaid
Engine Duty Ratings

Marine:
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
CW = Continuous (Workboat):
IP = 1 Hour Intermittent (Pleasure Boat):
PC = Pleasure Continuous:
PM = Pleasure Maximum:
PI = Pleasure Intermittent:
PBc = Pleasure Boat Continuous:
PBi = Pleasure Boat Intermittent:
B-PBc = Pleasure Boat Continuous:
B-PBi = Pleasure Boat Intermittent:
B = B Rating:
C = C Rating:
D = D Rating:
HDC = Heavy Duty Commercial: Displacement craft. High hours, Naturally Aspirated.
W = Workboat & Yacht: Moderately high annual hours, Often just turbocharged.
C = Commercial +.
Cm = Commercial +.
CmC = Commercial Continuous: Fast Fishing, Pilot, Patrol Boats, & Rescue Craft.
c = …c = ...C = Continuous +.
PBc = Pleasure Boat Continuous: Usually achieved by reducing propeller pitch.
PBi = Pleasure Boat 1 Hour Intermittent: Usually 1 hour out of 8 with 7 hours at <75%.
S1 = Sportive duty:
A1 = High Performance Crafts: Full throttle operation restricted within 10% of total use period. Cruising speed at engine rpm <90% of rated speed setting. Maximum usage 300 hours per year.
A2 = Pleasure/Commercial Vessels: Full throttle operation restricted within 10% of total use period. Cruising speed at engine rpm <90% of rated speed setting. Maximum usage 1000 hours per year
B = Light Duty: Full throttle operation restricted within 10% of total use period. Cruising speed at engine rpm <90% of rated speed setting. Maximum usage 1500 hours per year
C = Medium Duty: Full throttle operation <25% of use period. Cruising speed at engine rpm <90% of rated speed setting. Maximum usage 3000 hours per year
D = Heavy Duty: Maximum rating utilization up to 100% of use period, for unlimited hours per year.

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Sabre
Engine Duty Ratings

Industrial (See Ford Engine Duty Ratings):
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
OL = Overload: Very Intermittent - Fuel injection rack at maximum fuel duration.

Marine:
C = Continuous: Power available continuously - Unlimited hours.
I = Intermittent: Power for <1 out of 8 hours (remainder at <75% power) - Annual hours <1000.
C = Commercial: Professional use.
^ Categories:
^ ^ 1 = +
^ ^ 2 = Sprint craft for rapid intervention or emergency, used for less then 500 hours per year.
^ ^ 3 = Application used for less then 2000 hours per year.
^ ^ 4 = Application used for more the 2000 hours per year.
L = Leisure: Pleasure Craft.

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• Reciprocating Piston Engine Configurations: 2 & 4 Stroke Cycle. In-line and V, + 20 Others.
• Selecting the Right Diesel Engine for Your Boat.
• See Propulsion Machinery for articles on Engine Selection, Installation, and Maintenance.
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15.3.5.6 – DIY: Furnishings (Cabinetry, furniture, Coverings, Entertainment, Weather, etc).
15.3.6 – DIY: Nav & Comm Systems (Charts, Compass, GPS, Radar, Lts, Flares, EPIRB, VHF, etc).
15.3.7 – DIY: Safety Equipment (PFDs, Firefighting, Alarms, etc).
15.3.8 – DIY: Personal Equipment (Diving, Fishing, Sailing, Racing, Watersports, etc).
15.3.9 – DIY: Tenders.
15.3.10 – DIY: Boat Trailers.

16 – MEDIA w/Creator Directory (Authors, Editors, Publishers, etc) + Lending Library.
16.1 – Articles (w/Reviews).
16.2 – Books (w/Reviews).
16.3 – Magazines (w/Reviews).
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16.5 – Videos (Movies, etc. w/Reviews).
16.6 – Websites (w/Reviews & Links).

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