Re: Re: Re: Re: Glowplugs in diesel tractors...

Posted by Bob Clark on May 30, 2004 at 19:48:59 from (24.239.255.197):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Glowplugs in diesel tractors... posted by Bob M on May 30, 2004 at 05:22:38:

The antique engine club that runs the Portland tractor show has a Fairbanks-Morse factory engine (it take a whole semitrailer just for the engine) that starts with compressed air and heating a part of the head. Years ago in my home town of Hagerstown Indiana there was a oil pumping station (part of the city park now, but the engine is gone) that pumped crude oil for, I believe SOHIO. It had a large 1 cylinder engine. I never saw it but I could hear it from 6 miles away when the weather was right. Don't know what the bore and stroke was, but the fly wheel was 12 or 14 feet in diameter. They started it by rolling it just past top dead center, heating the cylinder head to near red hot with an acytelene torch and manually operating the injector. It would run for days on end. The exhaust would glow red and if there was a leak in the pump it would catch fire. Seemed like this was nearly an annual occurance. The brick and steal rafters in the building still have a scourced look.

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