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Lister 6/1 Genset
Darren:
Thanks John,
It's the first time I have worked on a diesel fuel pump/governor and although nothing was particularly difficult the hardest part was knowing what exactly was inside and how it came out.
I'm hoping my post reads ok and someone will be able to follow it. Of course it makes much more sense if you have a pump in front of you to relate the information with. All should hopefully be quite clear. Anyways, as usual just a picture or two can really help. :D
sbwhart:
Spot On Darren :thumbup: :clap:
I'm certain there will plenty of people out there who will find that write up very useful
Cheers
:wave:
Stew
Darren:
Lister 6/1 Genset Water Coolant Pipework and fittings
Both the inlet and outlet water coolant fittings need some attention and a good tidying up. This is the hot outlet flange to the cooling tank/radiator.
Quite a lot of crud build up around the internal threads that needs removing.
This is the inlet flange and what is left of the original pipework, Looking a bit sorry for itself.
Both units now removed for further inspection.
I used to clean this sort of thing on motorbikes many years ago by hand. It can be quite hard work !!
But now having a lathe will really make light of this. The crud is a mixture of rust and old paper gasket truly welded in place. Glad I'm not doing this by hand :D
After removing around 30thou we are starting to see some nice clean metal. Although there has been some deeper corrosion/pitting. A little more to go.
This is the other flange with the bit of pipe on it. I shortened the pipe and it's inside the lathe chuck. You can see this flange has much deeper pitting and will need to be removed to ensure a proper seal when re-fitted.
The two flanges now finished and looking a lot tidier. I also used a boring bar to clean the rust crud from inside the pipe and to the threads on the other unit. Once cleaned to the threads a scribe was used to pick the rust within the threads themselves. It's looking better but a 1" BSP tap will be needed to clean them up properly.
sbwhart:
Darren
I think I may have a 1" BSP tap, my shops upside down at the moment with the mill move as soon as I get sorted I'll have a look for it, if I have got one you can borrow it with pleasure.
Cheers
:wave:
Stew
Divided he ad:
That looks like fun Darren.... It brings back memories of seeing "how it works" on customers cars :bugeye:
... We didn't always have diagrams, so we just had to work it out and remember/work out where everything came from.... Good Job I've got a bit of "The Knack"!! :lol: (Clueless? see"he has the knack" post in the water cooler!)
Looks like your tearing into it anyway :dremel:
I love being able to clean up old parts like that.... Makes you feel all happy :D
I also think I have a tap if you don't and Stew can't find his? I'd have to have a bit of a dig too.... At least to see if I had the correct size?! I purchased a whole load of old taps on e-blag a long time ago and a few large BSP taps were in there.... My dad borrowed one a while back for a job at work... Seemed to do the trick!... I just can't remeber if it went back in the box o bits??? :scratch:
Keep us updated,
Ralph.
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