Setback #00001 did clarify one big question. There was no longer any indecisiveness about whether the governor shaft would have to be completely disassembled. Since the base gearbox casting was cracked the entire shaft and all its components will need to come off. This includes of the intricate sub-assemblies including the air distributor, governor and fuel injection systems. I estimate about 1300 unique part numbers on the entire engine and about half of them are on this shaft. And I have exactly one grainy drawing showing how they all go together. Continue reading “Flywheel and Governor Shaft”
Setback #00001
Yup, it’s all been cruising along a little too well. I knew this was coming but didn’t know what form it would take. Now I know. Continue reading “Setback #00001”
My new best friend
The restoration of Kahlenberg engines is a hobby of a small group. These engines exist in many of the maritime museums around the great lakes. A few more are at old time equipment museums such as Cold Spring Ohio. Some are operational but most are nice cosmetic displays. There is one gentleman who travels around running a Kahlenberg hourly from his trailer at various events and fairs. I have seen reference to running Kahlenbergs as far away as Florida. Continue reading “My new best friend”
Disassembly and cleaning begins
I decided to start with where there may be any level of urgency. Triage. Water infiltration is a good start. The air compressor was the first thing to come apart because I had already noticed water coming out the head when turning over the engine. Continue reading “Disassembly and cleaning begins”
Okay, now what?
It’s in the shop. Where to start….
Well, first I needed to make some space. The move came up rather quickly. So all other projects and various stuff got shoved in corners or wherever. This led to a couple weeks of shop re-organizing along with unloading a bunch of unused “things” on The List of Craig. Gotta have some elbow room here. Continue reading “Okay, now what?”
Step 1: Getting it to my shop
Challenge: How do you move a nearly four ton piece of equipment sitting on dirt in a back yard to a shop 300 miles away? A logical idea is to get an even bigger piece of equipment to lift the engine up and set it on my trailer. That’s how it got there in the first place. Seems reasonable. Who wouldn’t want to watch a crane lift a big hunk of iron and skillfully set it on a trailer. But I had a couple of issues with that approach. Continue reading “Step 1: Getting it to my shop”
Genesis of a blog
It would have been nice if this blog had been started in October when I actually purchased the engine and began restoration. I’ve been taking many pictures and sending them along on demand. I was also considering logging hours and tasks. But I hadn’t considered a web site or blog. This was Skylar’s idea. And now it makes sense. After doing some research I decided to use WordPress on a hosted platform. So far, so good. I’m going to get this site published about 24 hours after starting. We will see how it evolves.
I will add some retroactive posts soon and get caught up to real time.
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