[SEL] Milker update

[Steve Gray]

Hey All -

  For those who replied and/or have any interest in this milker engine 
project, I've put the rest of the current pictures up (#6-9) showing the 
guts of the crankcase, primarily the vacuum pump. The engine con rod 
assembly is Ford T in this engine. As Tim had mentioned earlier, the 
head bolts ended up being candidates for the flame wrench, 4 of the 6 
backing out nicely after some heat. Two had little or no heads left, so 
I went in with a Makita grinder and ground any of the remaining heads 
away, leaving just the bolt shanks. The head came right off, after 
which, I used a stud wrench to remove the remaining bolts (pic #6). The 
pump (on the left end of the crank in pic #7 has seen lots of water, but 
is free. The copper tubing leads from a piston pump in a closed oil sump 
in the base and pumps oil into a site glass on top of the block before 
running down over the pump casting. This oil eventually makes it over to 
a dip sump under the engine con rod before returning to the hidden sump 
via an oil passage. Pics 8 & 9 show the vacuum pump. The pistons are 
tied together by a ridged con rod, while one piston has a normal con rod 
tied to the special throw on the end of the crank. The pump valving is 
operated by bronze fork in pic 9 and an eccentric, also on the end of 
the crank.

http://www.oldengineshed.com/snapshots/milker6.jpg
http://www.oldengineshed.com/snapshots/milker7.jpg
http://www.oldengineshed.com/snapshots/milker8.jpg
http://www.oldengineshed.com/snapshots/milker9.jpg

- Steve

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Steve Gray
Member EDGE & TA, Br. 13 & 27
Sonora, California USA
e-mail:   segray at bigvalley.net
Home page:   http://www.oldengineshed.com






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