Why Thrusters need maintenance?
Propulsion Thruster service
RM Propulsion provides comprehensive propulsion thruster maintenance service, overhaul, repair, and troubleshooting for your vessel’s thrusters. We always begin with a free consultation, offering you advice to make sure you can make an educated decision on what you need.
Bow thruster maintenance & more
Our Propulsion engineers are specialists in all propulsion services and very familiar with all makes and types of Bow Thrusters, Stern Thruster and Azimuth Thrusters.
We work on a range of vessel types, including cargo vessels, offshore vessels, DP2 vessels, anchor handling tugs, platform supply vessels, tankers etc.
What’s more, we can come to you to carry out thruster servicing wherever you are in the world. With our full-service thruster maintenance and repair support, we can help you ensure that your vessels meet the requirements of the classification societies. These include five-year and ten-year thruster overhauls.
Five-year thruster overhaul
During the five-year thruster overhaul, our teams carry out a comprehensive dissasembly and inspection to evaluate the condition of your vessel’s thrusters. We undertake a rigorous cleaning process, replace wear-prone parts. Like the Shaft seals, Blade foot O-rings etc.
Ten-year thruster overhaul
On top of the procedures performed in the five-year overhaul, an even more thorough overhaul is required after ten years or 40,000 hours of operation. This includes an extensive inspection process to determine whether any key components need to be repaired or replaced. This will ensure that your vessel’s thrusters will continue to operate safely and smoothly for years to come, complying with classification society regulations. You can think of renewing the Blade foot O-rings, Shaft seals, Bearings, Liners etc.
Thruster servicing for all major brands
Our propulsion engineers have many years of thruster maintenance experience with most makes and types of thrusters – from bow thrusters and retractable thrusters to Azipull, swing-up azimuth and tunnel thrusters. Some of the marine propulsion brands we service include
Aquamaster®, Berg®, Brunvoll®, Jastram®, Kamewa®, Kamome®, Kawasaki®, Kongsberg®, Liaan®, Lips®, MAN®, Nakashima®, Rolls-Royce®, Schottel®, Ulstein®, Wärtsilä® etc.
Compatible thruster spare parts
As part of our comprehensive propulsion thruster service, we can provide a full range of spare parts. For more information, please visit our Thruster spare parts page. And if you require spare parts for a particular thruster brand, please visit our brand-specific support pages for more information.
*RM Propulsion has no commercial relationship with mentioned companies or one of the brands within their groups. We are an independent company in the marine industry.
Propulsion service Bow, Stern & Azimuth Thrusters
From inspection…
Our service engineers will inspect the thrusters to check for damage or wear. This includes a full inspection of backlash and tooth patterns, bearing clearances, and the propeller blade and shaft seals. For azimuth thrusters, this also involves a pressure test of the intermediate section.…to the full overhaul
Once we know exactly what needs to be done, we’ll get on with the full thruster overhaul. This will include disassembly and checking, verifying, and measuring the parts. After this is complete, we will also take care of any machining or conditioning required.Machining or conditioning
We will also take care of any machining or conditioning required. Once all the thruster parts have been serviced, we’ll reassemble everything and perform a pressure test or functional test as appropriate.Warranty Thruster service
We provide a 6-month warranty on propulsion services according our to our warranty terms.
