We had a Cummins 220 engine on a water pump at the city. It started leaking water during a 2 week continuous run during a cold spell when the power was off from a bad ice storm. We babied it along for 3 days. It ran 24/7 except to check the oil twice a day and do minimal maintenance. I asked the shop mechanic to try to find something to fix it. He checked around and was told, pepper. We added pepper each time we started it back up. We maintained the engine for a year after that, starting it each month and running for 1 hour pumping water. The City finally got a big generator so we could run all the operations at the water intakes (air compressor, screen wash pumps and an air bladder). When torn down, all the O-rings were bad and the liners had floated. It got us through and the director finally got the hint to upgrade. The motor was installed in 1953 and had 8,000 hours on it. It had been put on the list for replacement in 1978. Removed in 2009....James
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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