Crankshaft Oil seal

I didn't use a penis pump. I didn't use a torque wrench either - though the torque wrench that I have would probably have fit better than the spark-plug-ratchet. It's the older type with the 'meeter-bar'. Turned sideways it's thinner, so had I thought I needed to measure the torque I could have done so. Of coarse I'd rather just make them as tight as possilbe without breaking them. Also, I recently got an 3/8" extension kit (K-mart special) with a

1/2" adapter that has a hole in it. The hole is for using one of the extensions to turn a socket with it. That would reduce the cleaance you'd need down to

Supposedly I am too :- ) My father & mother both are, I don't hold it against them either.

~KJ~

It's just as believable.

It's not old at all. It's a less acurate but more rugged design. It's made to put up with morons like you who would use it as a breaker bar, or remove all accuracy by turing it into a "1,000lb rated" torque wrench.

Those silly little books say you should torque them. I don't have one for your engine, but I'm sure google knows. You being the 'engineer' you are should know that engineers (usually) know there stuff and tell the 'goons' that spin iron how to do things a particular way because of all the years they spent in school.

Do it the Navy Yard way! As tight as you can, and then 2 turns tighter!

Dirt driveway here. Sounds like you have an engine stand ETC somewhere there.

~KJ~

Yea, the garage has my Harleys, tools, collection of engines, Rail-road track (anvil), a collection of lawn mowers (picked up curb-side last fall (they all worked w/ minor repairs (ie: add oil, or replace rope)). But the vehicles have been outside since last november.

Too bad I'm throwing so much of this stuff away - even working mowers. I was collecting them thinking I'd use the motors as canoe motors (w/ some contraption added - though I haven't come up with that one), or backup boat motors (junking the 21' boat if anyone wants it). I have to fit everything we own into a 25' truck, and when we get there into 2 storage sheds that are 10x10 (including furniture).

Shoulda seen the 1st boat my dad had when I was a kid... It was a very large metal canoe - and he got a

150HP water pump from a fire truck and made it 'jet propelled'. After 1 test ride he didn't want to do it anymore - so I guess it runs in the blood, kinda like Ayn Rand's Fountainhead (Howard liked designing/building but then didn't care what happened to the stuff).

Elliott PS: If any>

Your engineering assignment, if you chose to accept it:

Use a flex coupler to connect the drive shaft to provide alignment play and sheer protection in case of a prop strike.

Where's Gary with his trollometer? Anyway....I'd only give that one about a

3...... you could have scored much higher but you laid the stupidity factor on so thick as to be totally unbelievable. Bob

German Catholic here, I'm saved and never wrong ;-)

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John, Yea that link was the concept for the side-shaft B&S motor I have. The lawn-mowers are free by the curb but are vertical. I was thinking that I could have used a v-belt or something like that to make a very similar concept. However, that would require thrust bearings. All I have is a box of scate-board bearings, and a few ATV wheel bearings. I experimented with tiping one of the engines - it gets to about

45 degrees before stall>

Sicilian Catholic here....................I'm saved and can "whack" people.......................

Doc

Haaahh that's good!

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there's nothing wrong with using an impact to remove stuff.... I think in most cases it's the *best* way to remove stuff.

-Bret

actually they're more accurate if taken care of. clickers need periodic adjustment to stay in spec, beam types don't unless you've torched it, cryo'd it or did anything else that would affect the modulus of the steel.

t's made

at the local Navy yard, it'd be tighten it up, crate it up, ship it across the yard, then dump it in the scrap heap.

-Bret

no shit..... me too (being Catholic, that is).. protestants, esp southern ones (I spent 3 years in Kentucky) are much more likely to spout the "Go watch the passion and get real with God" type drivel.

-Bret

Ian;

Did you catch his claim that his landlord's mechanic had taken a FORD flex plate out like this ????

Tell me, what's he gonna do, torch off the TC studs ?

G