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  1. Baldbloke
    Not if it’s like mine anyway[emoji849]
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    I now have visions on having to remove the the air filter to give the inlet manifold a blow job[emoji12]
  3. Baldbloke
    This one just has a universal throw away plastic filter floating where the original used to sit. The beauty is that any air trapped within it is easily seen.
  4. Baldbloke
    Very true! Trouble is, I’m either at work or my wife is, so driving the two necessary vehicles simultaneously is also beyond me. My neighbours are also even more ancient than me, and our combined efforts would probably make a news story🤣
  5. Baldbloke
    I too asked my wife to operate the lever so I could keep it spinning after the compression came in by keeping both hands on the cranking handle.
  6. Baldbloke
    Very good Alec, thanks for that, much appreciated in the detail (including in your last paragraph), as are all the other comments from everyone else[emoji1303] An update about the seller: he’s just this minute replied and has committed to call around tomorrow evening to give me a lesson in basic diesel mechanicals and how to start her[emoji1303][emoji1303][emoji1303]. So the implication that he had disappeared laughing with my £800 was a maybe a tad unfair. I will update you all tomorrow evening......even if I’m found to be as stupid as I possibly am🤣
  7. Baldbloke
    Just had my fleeting first glimpse of either a Swallow or House Martin just now. Two weeks late but better that, than none at all. Think we had five pairs last year as against about 18 or 20 pairs 12 years ago. That’s near Keith in Moray in the NE of Scotland BTW. We’d normally be hearing a Cuckoo or two by now but suppose they’ll be a fortnight late too.
  8. Baldbloke
    Don’t know anything about them but do have an old towable 12 metre one. I would personally think a motorised one involves more complication and more expense. Especially when it’ll still need a trailer in being towed to site anyway. So, the sole benefit would be manoeuvrability on site and possibly less mess getting it into position.
  9. Baldbloke
    Messaged the guy who I bought it from, as he’d originally offered to stop by on Saturday to give me some pointers on starting her. However, there’s been a deathly silence since then...... I had hoped on the machine being cold started on my collection, but of course it was happily chugging away on arrival, so I now suspect he too was in the habit of tow starting her too🤣
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    Still trying to figure out how to post a short video by transferring a file[emoji849]
  12. Baldbloke
    She’s briefly smokey on throttle after idling for a while, but otherwise is remarkably clean running. Hard to get over TDC when cold and a bit easier when warm. I’d say if there was any more compression it would take an exceptionally strong person to start her. While towing behind a 4WD car which was in first gear, the driven wheels of dumper on grass were locking up in 2nd gear where the ground was a bit wet. It actually didn’t start until it was over tarmac.
  13. Baldbloke
    Thanks for that. Very helpful. I’m thinking my pump is on the weak side. I got a tow from the wife and got her going and once going she runs fine, but once you stop her (using the correct way, and not the decompression lever) I still can’t get her to go without another tow start. It took a fair amount of towing to get her going. It certainly wasn’t instantaneous, and shows what a waste of space it is trying to start her on the cranking handle. I’ve taken a video of her idling but struggling to figure out how to post it. It idles perfectly and responds well enough to the throttle pedal well enough and I’ve been assured the engine doesn’t use noticeable amounts of oil. But, as I earlier, even trying to start her immediately after stopping her, she doesn’t even offer.
  14. Baldbloke
    Yes, undone the bleed screw on the pump and got air free fuel. Also cracked the nut at the injector and got weak pulse of fuel. Pump rack slides back and forth easily enough. One thing I have noticed is that the primer only travels through 90 degrees before hitting the chassis. Should it rotate a full 180 degrees? Not hearing an audible creak from the injector though
  15. Baldbloke
    I put one on a small tractor I sold a few months ago. Comfort that little tractor had never seen previously
  16. Baldbloke
    This one just has the foot throttle.....and a retrospective soft seat [emoji1303]
  17. Baldbloke
    Yup, having worked 60/70/80 hour weeks all my life I retired to drive doctors, nurses and paramedics about on a mere 36 hour contract. Nearly Full time supposedly🤣 No log book but I suppose you could apply.
  18. 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?
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  21. Baldbloke
    Made an extension to the cranking spindle to try to start it from the digger with a strap:
  22. Baldbloke
    Yes, maybe tomorrow when neither the wife nor I are at work.
  23. Baldbloke
    I can remember the morning after half a bottle of Grouse and a number of tins of cider followed by an early start as a passenger in the deer stalker’s old Hilux along with his dog in the cab that he fed on deer tripe. On fart from the dog and the window wouldn’t lower quickly enough🤮
  24. Baldbloke
    Great job! All plumb too by the look of the lines from your internal windows[emoji1303] My wife’s been on to me to do something similar which I’m desperately trying to avoid...
  25. Baldbloke
    It’s what attracted me to this basic thing too. No electrics, no hydraulics and totally mechanical, until I discovered its foibles🤣

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