Recent content by Ray Cook

Deuce, There is another way to remove and install the injection pump without re-timing everything. Once everything is disconnected, the pump will slide straight off the side of the engine without any rotation. You will see a slot in the driven gear on the pump. Use a marker (a Sharpie-type...

Assuming your pump is ok, you can save yourself some later work. Once the pump is off the engine, don't spin the pump right away. Instead, take a marker and draw a line on the pump body and the gear. Before you re-install the pump, make sure the line is, well, lined up. This way, you won't have...

I believe it is. The pumps are very similar, with the exception of how the pump shaft is rotated. I forgot to mention in my earlier post that there's also an ID tag on the outside of the pump body that tells you which pump model you have. However, it is difficult to see with the pump on the...

First off, welcome aboard! Next, you may have read about this already, but there's 2 different (but interchangeable) injection pumps on these engines. the earlier ones use a model PSU from Bosch. Later ones have the M50 from Ambec. Hopefully, if you have a PSU it didn't bind up as the pump...

OK...here goes. My first wife was, putting it mildly, less than morally upright. The 'shop' at the time was a 28X32 barn with a model railroad on the 2nd floor. When things started to get really bad towards the end of the marriage, I'd noticed things missing from inside the house. So, one...

He shoulda been smart enough to lock the shop before he left. Ask me how I know....

Well played, sir. For it is easier to obtain forgiveness than permission!

What if the auto is already a horse? You know; Mustang, Bronco, Pinto..... (I just had to) :)

Some sort of 24 volt charger plugged into the 'convenience outlet' should work as well, right?

Good evening, everyone. I'm preparing the fuel tank for the Caswell epoxy treatment. I think I have it sufficiently degreased inside, but I still have white spots in there I can see. I'm guessing this is residual algae. Before I go on to acid etching and such, what will get rid of the...

I have had good results using lacquer thinner to clean diesel sludge bunk from injection pumps. Just my .02

There IS a way to do it, and I'm certain it is covered somewhere here on the forum, but I don't know it off by heart. I'm not certain how much rotation you could get away with before the injection pump would get unhappy; it can't be very much. There's 2 injection pump models on these engines...

It might not be wise to spin that engine, once free, until you remove/check the injection pump for being stuck with old fuel. (I learned this the hard way!) Just my .02

Thanks, guys. Interesting read. I didn't see anywhere where the reset calls for replacing the injection pump. Since the above machine is from '81, it should have had a Bosch PSU. I'm not buying the machine, just curious, as I'd hate to see someone stuck with a generator they couldn't use.