Gardner 6LXB 180 Overhaul Part 6 - Watching paint dry.... Atkinson Borderer
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
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Welcome to the sixth video of this series, those of you who already follow us will know that the videos we post are normally short clips of an engine running after overhaul or when it first arrives with us. In this series after many requests we will be following the stripdown, inspection and restoration of a Gardner 6LXB from a 1972 Atkinson Borderer. In this video we continue the rebuild by re-assembling the flywheel, fitting it to the engine, preping and fitting the sump and then painting the engine.
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Surgery like - both in venue and undertaking! First class watching.......
This is class very interesting nice one👍
Good work ❤Gardner..king
I am enjoying your videos , I run a 6LW myself in my fishing boat … definitely a fan of all things Gardner . I would have liked to see the pistons and rings fitted , but I understand filming and getting things done are two separate tasks.. cheers from Tasmania
Glad you're enjoying the series. We have an 2LW coming through the workshop soon so watch this space for pistons and ring fitting.
Such nice workmanship......
Hello I've just bought a Foden S39 with a Gardener 180 engine and I'm looking to carry out a full reservation, would you be able to help me with some specifications and to source engine parts if needed.Many thanks Mark..
Ps love your videos 👍
Hi Mark, we certainly can help. Drop us a message via our website. Cheers Martyn
I do enjoy your vids. I had a 6LX for over 30 years in our boat and in that time we only managed to do 2500 hours! We did however install the newer high compression pistons . That stopped any smoke on start up but the engine didn't sound quite the same. It had slightly lost the Gardner tock, tock, tock noise. Strangely we didn't find any increase in performance with the later pistons but then again I suspect that is down to the quality of the fuel.
I was somewhat disappointed to see you paint the whole thing one colour.
The factory released them with silver painted sump and crank case and grey block and heads with silver tappet covers.
Looked very smart and a work of art. I'm looking forward to the startup
Thankyou for your comment and glad you are enjoying the series, we have a couple of 6LX's in storage that we will rebuild at somepoint so watch this space. Just for a bit of useless trivia as the topic of colour and paint scheme comes up for Gardner's every now and then on forums etc. There were many many different colour schemes for Gardner's over the years. We have had many though the workshop that were in original paint and these have been black, burgundy red, various shades of grey, blue, green and the list goes on likewise the RNLI spec LW's and LX's used in lifeboats have a build spec that specifically calls for a fully painted crankcase and sump and in other applications, as the crankcases on some LW's were cast iron, they were again painted. On the topic of this engine it has been redone with a fully grey painted crankcase and sump because it was originally. We do sometimes do the crankcases is silver/aluminium depending on the customers preference. If you look at some of the earlier videos for this engine you can see the remains of the red primer and then grey topcoat on the crankcase equally the underside of the sump had areas of grey still hanging on after nearly 52 years.
Again thankyou for taking the time to comment and watch the series.
Nice videos thanks, I would like to hear you talk about the cost of the various rebuild componants and how hard to obtain them, hours that went in to the rebuild etc. cheers
Thankyou for your comment on the series and your comments around content. I will keep them in mind.
I thought Gardners didn't have head gaskets because the tolerances were so fine on them? Loving the tutorials though!
Steel head gasket, on this. But the l3 l3b, engine was cylinder head to block & liner, no gasket.
You don't need a lacky band round the front bearing rollers to fit the front cover then?
No you dont, there is a lead in on the outer race to guide the rollers as you put the cover on. a lacky band wouldn't work because how would you get it back out of the now sealed up crankcase.
@@MPSVintageDiesels A sensible design then. You wouldn't need to retrieve it though since it's above the pickup and the scavenge pump has a screen as well. If the engine had a fluid flywheel you wouldn't get that together without holding the rollers in place.
Very surprised to see these small bolts in the oil pan, is there no risk of them unscrewing from vibrations?
It's quiet common on alot of engine models. The fasteners are on the opposite side of the filter gauze to the pump so even if they did come loose it wouldn't cause an issue. The ones on this engine had been in place for 51 years and all were tight when we stripped it