Been quite a hectic couple of days. My neighbor who has had open heart surgery, a stroke and now a growth on his kidney is back in the hospital so I am trying to help his wife the best that I can. Spent most of yesterday at the ER until her brother could show up to take over. meanwhile my wife was pretty sick and now my right knee has decided to flare up enough to put me back on the pain meds.Mike Walsh wrote:OH! I see now. Water supply line.
Have you tried throttling the water supply valve? Perhaps add a needle valve in line that can be finely adjusted for constant use?
I agree, make sure the injector is keeping up with your demand.
Mike
Meanwhile trying to put the engine back together and clean up some of the paint that has suffered during the injector saga. The plan is to make two new water inlet lines to the injector. One will be a piece of 1/4" OD tubing and the other will be the same size tubing with an inline valve for fine adjustment. Will try just the line first and if there is still too much water than the one with the valve will be installed. Apparently the 1/4" ball valve now being used to control the water from the tender does not have enough sensitivity to give the right amount of water to make this injector work. During the test once the injector started working it filled the boiler faster than I would have expected so once the inlet problem is worked out all should be good. And if all goes well then Saturday may see the GS back out on the track for a test run. That is my hope anyway.
It is gratifying to have the many people on this forum take the time to share their experiences and suggestions for a solution to my injector woes. I thank each and everyone of those who have responded.
Donald