Trip 93 - Wednesday Evening - July 29th

A quick trip to swap out three of the new mounts, with three of the old ones. Remember, one mount last year was shot, which left three.

After we got that done and did some wiring for the cabin lights, we ran the engine to see how it was. The mounts really smoothed it out and there was no more bouncing all over the place. However, it would no go and faster than idle. And, the engine got real warm, real fast.

Tom came with and we puzzled for a while and at 10:45, I said "I quit" and we went home.

After some thought and conversation with my son, the engine is not getting adequate fuel in the combustion chamber.

- Fuel line plugged at tank (but we can prime the system with the lift pump just fine meaning it does flow quite easily)

- Mechanism to move slide on fuel injector pump has slipped (hard to believe as, this has not been apart after it ran okay in the garage)

- Injector plugged (could be, but it has a mesh screen inside to filter for this. Plus the fuel runs through the fuel filter first.)

I will bring a jug of fresh diesel fuel, run the inlet line to it and also the return line into it as well. Then we know it is not in the tank.

If that does not do it, then, we may have to pull the engine outa there to see what happened.

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England informed me they can not get different mounts. I have spent 20-30 hours already researching where I might get them, to no avail. We will worry of this across the winter.

 

The old mounts.

 

I spaced each one so the stud did not protrude into the cavity and hit the fibreglas mount.

 

This one does not have a lock nut. I taped it and jammed it into the mount so the stud did not interfere.

 

I jammed locknuts onto the two front mounts. Note, for thirty years, there were no locknuts and the stud could bounce all over inside the threads in the mounts.

 

All back in.

 

Hmmmm ...

Later ...