This is a Listeroid 8/1 from Gary at DES, right now it is spinning a Delco 24 volt alternator that charges my batteries when the wind is not blowing, it includes a custom 5 gallon stainless fuel tank and a 60 gallon plastic tank for fuel or veg oil, the injection pump has a two way valve to switch between diesel or veg oil.
Also included is an air starter, a large four core radiator and all the plumbing, with a 24 volt electric fan that is controlled by an aquastat and powered by the alternator.
It uses standard NAPA oil and fuel filters, also included is the steel base made of 8x8 steel tube with a 1/2 inch steel top and vibration isolators, it is easily large enough to fit an ST type generator head.
This engine has been running for the last month smooth as glass, the reason I am selling is I have a block with most of the lower end parts, so I'm going to build up another one. I will deliver for free within 500 miles, offers starting at $3000 considered.

I got up this morning and felt a disturbance in the force, went out in the shop and noticed there was no lister noise, mine runs/ran 24/7, so I opened the door on it's room and noticed right away the belt was off, then I noticed the IP side flywheel was at about a 25 degree angle to the center line and the main bearing casting was shattered.
Then I looked at the other side and noticed the same thing.
I shut the door and came back in for some breakfast, I'll get some pics later today and possibly start the tear down, it does not look like the block is broken.

Well, as the subject states I just Couldn't stand the Indian "paint" any more, it is not fuel or oil proof at all, it's not really even oxygen proof.
Anyway I took it apart and sand blasted every spec of this stuff of every part, while I had the wheels off I also did 38ac's balancing method drilling holes this time, which turned out perfectly.
I also drilled a two inch hole in the head to use as an oil pre heat system, the thread in the fuel line nuts is metric 14-1.5, I went to a local diesel fuel injection shop and had them make me two twelve inch lines with cones and nuts on each end and cut me one raw piece of line 24 inches long their line is one quarter inch OD one sixteenth inch ID.
The sealing cones are awesome on these lines, they kick the s#it out of the sorry ass Indian things, the cones are separate pieces and they silver solder them on he lines.
I then bought four grade eight 14-1.5 metric bolts making sure there was some straight unthreaded section on the bolts, the bolts were drilled out on the lathe and on the threaded end the hole was counter taper countersunk to match the cones on the lines.
A plate was then made to cover the hole with four holes in the corners to match drilled and tapped holes in the head, and two holes for the drilled out bolts/fuel fittings to pass through these were then tig welded on both sides to the plate with the taper counter sunk threaded portion on the side that would be outside of the head.
I made the twenty four inch long raw section of fuel line into a coil that would fit inside the two inch hole in the head, then drilled out the inside the head ends of the fuel bolt fittings just over one quarter inch so the ends of the coil would fit in these bores, I then tig welded the coil ends to the bolt ends.
Now the coil goes inside the head in direct contact with the cooling water and preheats my WVO before injection, since a picture is worthy a thousand words here are some of the parts.

Welp, last night I noticed something was missing from the normal back ground noise, the minute I stepped into the shop I realized the roid was down, I checked the fuel, plenty, checked to see if it was seized, nope, no unusual noises when hand cranking but not the usual hard stop against the compression stroke, I can actually crank it over by hand on the compression stroke.
I'm thinkin stuck or broken rings, it's been running pretty much non stop since January and I know Lister had a decarbon schedule so I'm gonna pull the head and take a look.

This was my weekend project, it's a 4 hp air motor, it won't crank against compression but it beats the hell out of cranking The plumbing needs to be a little more elegant but it works for now.

Well, here's my 8/1 roid all hooked up to an alternator and my hydronic heating system, the alternator works great, I have a problem though, it literally leaks water everywhere, everyplace there is a gasket on the water jacket, between the block and cylinder, head and cylinder, there is even water coming out of the large stud that holds the rocker assembly on, water was dripping out of the flex pipe that I have on the exhaust pipe.
Where do I start?

Can someone explain what is up with the strange symbols I see on this board? I often see the A with the little thingy on top and the strange symbols that appear in the code of conduct post, is this another language? I've never encountered it before.