Starting a Petter PH1 single cylinder Diesel engine

[Khriss]

( well , unless I'm touching cloth ...then, needs must ) 

[topchippyles]

Just now, Khriss said:

Thankyou Chippy - I would never aspire to the Throne Of Stubby    K

That was quick champ. I fell in love with his wrap around handle last night 😁

[Khriss]

11 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

That was quick champ. I fell in love with his wrap around handle last night 😁

They do look good - we not allowed them cos kickback risk - but bout time Mr Stubby got his youtube on an displayed himself with US forestry service tin hat n 28" bar . Gotta be clicks in that ! K

[spuddog0507]

5 hours ago, muttley9050 said:

No I'm not. Was just interested in the price they are making these days. I spent 2k about 8 years ago on a 1 tonne thwaites skip loading dumper and haven't looked back.
Far more complicated than the one the op has and will probably never last as long, but a joy to use and paid for itself many times over.

Take it thats a Hi lift one ? if so your 2k was a good investment, I bought a Lifton loadstar 750 high lift about 4 years ago for breaking, then thought it was far to good to break and kept it, its been used day in day out on some jobs and it makes my life so much easier, it will go to a new home one day but i dont when, paid 1.5k for it running and all working and today i would think 3k +

[scbk]

A lot of dumpers, power barrows etc seem to be on quite high prices on ebay at the minute.

 

Honda petrol tracked barrows going for 3-4k

[Baldbloke]

Can’t you tow it?

Yes, maybe tomorrow when neither the wife nor I are at work.

[Baldbloke]

Made an extension to the cranking spindle to try to start it from the digger with a strap:

[Baldbloke]

[Baldbloke]

[Baldbloke]

The lighter strap broke, so put on a heavy duty one. Certainly turned it over but zero smoke coming from the exhaust to suggest it’s getting fuel. Undid the nut at the injector, and turned her over using the decompression lever, and there was a weak pulse of diesel oozing out. The question is, how much should be coming out of this feed pipe for this little engine?