Lister Junior Restoration - Part 2 -
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Continuing to strip down this old Lister stationary engine, in this video the engine is reduced pretty much to component level with a few assembly's still to take apart. Valve guide removal is also covered.
This is a 1929 spec A16 Lister Junior A type of 3hp.
Just about to buy one of these engines and I am finding your videos very informative. Thank you
Once you get into a hobby like this you get to know lots of other enthusiasts, engines tend to move between friends when they are offered for sale, some end up on ebay and some in vintage machinery magazines. Even in the local paper, they are everywhere.
Cheers mate
I have seen you heaving away to pull the cylinder/hopper I suggest you fabricate a small gantry with steel hollow sections and a small chain block it will make work easier and safer as you could have broken the piston rings the way you did it:-))
For an older engine she has held up quite well. Must have seen thousands of hours.
Thank you.
I wanted to get one guide out intact but it didn't happen, the second had to be broken up anyway. New replacements are available if I can't make them easily.
Good luck with the Norman, nice little engines those and sound great.
Take care,
Phill.
The Guides in my Lister A had to be remade, one came out ok, the other snapped just like yours. Cox & Turner Eng came to my rescue, with new Valves & Guides, BTW they supply Stationary Engine People in York too Im led to believe. Def use cast iron replacements, harder metal like a valve stem needs to run in a softer metal like cast iron, plus cast iron absorbs oil, so its all lubricated. Good Luck :-)
Thanks, yes I checked them with the valves in the engine and you could push them about just as much there, putting the valves in backwards was just to demonstrate the wear.
Thanks, it's going to take a while to get all that cleaned up now.
going to look good.
alex
Can do yes, get grit around the non return ball valves and the pump will stick. Sometimes also if any water gets in, the ball bearing will rust onto it's seat and the pump will blow fuel past the gland packing rather than output pipe.
another great and interesting video making good progress well done :)
Yes it didn't go quite as planned, I had considered slinging a hoist from one of the timber beams in the shed but as I'm replacing the rings anyway it didn't seem worth the hassle.
Will do next time though, would make the job a lot easier.
Cheers Alex, I hope so.
Yes I recon it's got a few hours on it! The engine is believed to have spent it's working life driving an elevator made by Reeves of Bratton in Wiltshire. That would tie in with the water damage inside, it's obviously spent many years outside. These old slow speed engines seem to last for ever, generaly there isn't anything that can't be repaired or remade anyway.
Cheers!
Ah that makes sense, in that case I may have a chat to SEP and see if they will do me a discount price for buying two from them. If not then I'll ask cox and turner as I need new rings as well.
Cheers!
Great video, you might be best to test the guides for play where they work, so closer to the guide with the valve.
That would explain it!
I could grumble about this country till the cows come home, but then again, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else!
Haven't received a PM from you.
The old owner before Mick lived in Dover, Bodge city.
sounds like an amazing place to live. theres nothing like that around here. well thats not true there is but hard to find and expensive. did you get my PM a while back ?
where do you find all these engines ?! they are amazing
You sometimes get grit in the fuel pump