The Home Machinist!

good plan.....

GM 6V-71 diesel - had one where I worked first out of college on an unmanned barge, driving a water pump. ran a VERY WET STACK most of the time since it idled running only an air compressor..only used the pump 10% of the time. when we loaded it up with the pump and ran it hard for an hour -> would s...

Comstock-Friend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:00 pm I used to do the double flare on the steel gas lines going to the four single barrels on my '65 Corvair Corsa. Single flare leaked.

John

so the pressure on the gas feed to the Corvair carbs was so severe as to require a double flare. ?

cool....musta been a really quick Corvair

Ditto on the nice.

I think we have similar "almost too small to be useful" rotary tables.

The only nice thing about my small rotary table is that I can lift it.

A bit better description or a photo would help.

careful...you may loosen up dirt and have it float into the bearing areas.....

THAT'S cool....

we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....

so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....

i have seen gear driven pumps that had internal shaft leaks that would dump hyd oil out the drive shaft and down into....wherever...

combine with slightly leaky control valves and you can have thinks that drop in the night.....

or hydraulic oil in your lube oil sump....

GIGGLE....and coal with Sulphur is not acidic?

is what I remember steve doing - although it had troughs in it to increase the surface area....

seem to remember is looking like an accordion from the top with holes in the V sides....

didn't smell like a popcorn engine though

I have seen Steve Bratina running a loco on it maybe 20 years ago....??

required a very funky looking grate IIRC

Did you put new seals in the hydraulic pump?

Is the hyd pump belt driven or mounted on the engine black and gear driven?