Another great day with my baby
Day three was for sourcing a machine shop and wood for building a work table, nothing done on the engine.
Day four another clean up day, but more in details.
Still a messy job but I was very pleased with the outcome .
First job was to polish the crankshaft to get the main bearings and the oil thrower rings off.
Everything was smooth and the bearings side off in ease
Left side is the original, right side already polished
The bearing surface on the crankshaft is in pristine condition.
Con-rod bearings are gone
below are the oil thrower rings, which are located beside the main bearing
Next job was to remove the camshaft, which had a seized end collar.
I had to grind off a bit from the collar and tried to get the pin out, NO way, so I drilled a hole in the pin and out he comes
Have to replace the collar I guess, or maybe just use a bolt and nut.
Next job was to clean out the Change Over Valve, which was straight forward with no hassles at all.
Next job was freeing the seized fuel pump.
I soaked it for two days in diesel and BINGO, all the parts starting moving after a bit of pressing and pushing and praying
To my surprise, there was still diesel fuel inside.
Cleaning up piston and removing seized piston rings
Oil scraper and one piston ring come of in one piece, the rest has to be broken out
Heyah, have a working table now, so I do not have to crawl on the floor anymore
Sadly I could not open the injector , the brass nut just give way and is rounded now, so I change to a new one, the easy way.
Will try later to open it, after soaking in Acetone/TFT mixture for a few days.
The seized governor weighs and the sleeve was quite a hassle, but finally I got everything moving again
This was the first part of my day, all parts are ready to go back into my baby
Now lets have a look at the cylinder and cylinder head.
The cylinder head was straight forward, just cleaning the water system out, which was not too bad and remove the carbon.
Valve seats are gone, I have to build new valve seats in and also install new valves and valve springs.
The cylinder itself was another story
This baby was never cleaned in her entire live, thats for sure.
So lets go for it
Incredible what is stacked inside there
Comes out quite nice ...
Does not look too good, but I think the LISTER can still handle it
Option would be to press a new sleeve in so that I can use the original piston, have to check out how much that would cost me.
So this was day four in the rebuilding process and now I have to hunt for spare parts.
I will need the following parts:
Camshaft end collar + pin
Con-rod bearing
Crankshaft bearings
Water inspection cover plates on cylinder
Fuel filter
Exhaust and Air intake flange
Water inlet and outlet flanges
Thermostat
External Oil filter and internal oil filter
Injector complete
Fuel pump (spare)
Both valves + valve springs
A few spring washers, split pins, copper washers
..
All in all not so bad and expected.
Next job will be more fun, to put my baby together again.
This has to wait until I got all the needed parts.
Can anybody tell me a good source for Indian parts, would be much appreciated
I was in contact with Atul from
Anand Enterprise www.poweranand.com[/b]]www.poweranand.com and it seems that he is a nice guy and hast good parts too.
Still waiting for George's CD, more than three weeks already, probably the post-horses are a bit tired and it is a loooong way to Asia
Everybody have a great day
Pedro