+1 on Stef' rag thing!

tie a wire on the rags you stuff in the exhaust and intake, most especially if they are facing downward

its too easy to forget about them and buckle the engine up, and then start and inhale a rag, and that is a pain in the ass
to sort out.

don't ask me how i know this! 

bob g

he could use a "hoof" and "pierce" belt drive governor?

not sure how tight they can regulate to, but they are common on old farm equipment engines and can be found on ebay.

bob g

just an update

i have transferred the funds to get the tech paid to fix the problem
and he has agreed to work on it over the weekend.

so hopefully he is able to rectify the problem and get thing sorted so we can move
to a more agreeable and helpful host.

my problem is one of never enough time, being the Mayor of this little town, as well as the
state certified water and waste water operator, having a rather needy 88yo mother, and a
degenerative spine problem that limits my ability to sleep more than an hour or so at a time
makes for very little time to school myself on how to fix the forum issues as they have come up

over the years, 90% of the time when a problem came up it was with the host moving to a newer
php version,  the forum would go down, i would call the host, have them move the php back to the earlier
version and back up the forum would go.

the last couple of times however it has been other issues, wherein we had to upgrade the forum software
several versions to be compatible with the host.  to do that required help from the simple machines forum
tech guys, and i found one that was able to get the job done, and back up we went again.

this time, i have had to wait until the tech guy had time to work on the problem,  he is much like one of our forum
members taking time to drop over to another forum members shop to work on a problem with a listeroid, or a changfa
however thankfully it is software not hardware and he doesn't have to physically come over to fix the problem.

he being in denmark and i being in kansas, its a good thing he doesn't have to come over!

so anyway, again i thank everyone for their patience

hopefully we will be back up by sunday night

bob g

nope it was a standard old thick blade butter knife that he used, iirc he said it was about .019"
which was close to what the cam grinder called for back then.

oh yes, the thing clattered like hell as i recall, but it ran like an ape with his tail on fire.

bob g

i can't tell you how many bent pushrods i and others i have worked with were straightened with a ball peen hammer using the concrete floor as an anvil.  were the perfectly straight afterwards? no... but they really don't need to be perfect to work just fine.

a reasonably straight pushrod will take hundreds of pounds of straight line force without bending. maybe even thousands of pounds.

just take a hammer and tap on it, roll to find the high spot, hammer a bit more, roll and repeat until it rolls fairly well, and it will work like a new one.

only pushrods we ever rejected were cummins pushrods which were/are hollow, all of which would be dropped on the floor and if they rang out like a chime they were good to go, if they had a muffled sound, they were full of oil and we would replace those.

bob g

bob g

what are you using for an air cleaner?  if paper, maybe clogged with fine powder causing a vacuum on the intake?

just asking...

bob g

are you using the hand crank?

if so, try to crank the engine without the compression release, you should have a hell of a time getting it to crank over
that would tell me you have adequate compression

also just because the injector appears to be putting out a decent spray pattern, it may not be doing so when pushing against compression, you might need to increase the injector spring tension a bit.

does the engine put out smoke while you are trying to start it?  if it is putting out smoke you are likely getting enough fuel, but it might not be atomized and increasing the injector spring pressure a bit will help.

the right way to check the injector of course is to take it to an injection shop and have them test and set the pressure that it pops off at.

i also agree that you might well do better to get a pulley mounted and spin the engine up using another engine, sometimes you just need the added rpm to get it to light up the first time.

very hard to diagnose this sort of thing from a keyboard/puter screen

fwiw
bob g