Recent content by Spoonerist

I’m looking for the Linden Flower, perhaps a fellow PNW-er would know where to stoop. fine tobaccos. :) we are part of the 24 hours of lemons among other stiggish rally folk in OR.

Ship assist and 12’ cross cut with steam soon!

Good morning my intrepid lovers of old iron. We have the mother load available for shenanigans in service to the Wobblies and the SeaBees. “Iron workers guild, volunteer firefighters, all hand on deck.” — Dr. Spoon

Greetings lovers of all things that started as something else. My role in these shenanigans are to coordinate heavy hauling nifty stuff for a group in the Best Company. This activity requires our convoy with the SeaBees. We will see you soon! 🥄

awesome! I just rolled 50 on my odo. Cheers, 🥄

Good afternoon all, I’ve had some movement with my deuce project. About a week ago I did the FDC bypass. Fuel is still priming to the HH, but just fizz/froth at the injectors. I’m open to suggestions. My next course of action will be to open the “kill switch” plate and limber up the lever...

Good morning all, Lots of reading later. Looks like the Hydraulic Head needs a cleaning and given the crunchy nature of the fuel lines from the head to the injectors, I’ll clean and probably paint them, at least get the fittings happy. I will likely bypass the fuel density compensator and add...

Hello all, Some work on the deuce. Finished wiring the new batteries. Popped the fuel pump wire out and tested it with the help of a friend. Getting juice. Took off the cover where the fuse is. Fuse was burnt. I’m ordering one shortly. We temporarily jumped the fuse and the pump works! Opened...

Good afternoon all, Starting to warm up, I’m preparing to bring the deuce home! To that end I’ll be using a temporary fuel tank with a fitting directly to the secondary filter assembly. What size is the fitting at that point? Does anyone know off the top of your head? My life got super...

Greetings all, We are into the cold season out here. I’m ready to move forward with this project, but realized the county needs to take a couple of trees down on my driveway, so not a rush to bring her home. I’ve given up on doing the fuel pumping where she is. I’ll use a pony can and drive...

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Hello all, It appeared my willingness to manually pump diesel is limited. I got about 5 gallons out and bailed on doing more. I bit the bullet and got a cordless transfer pump. It’ll be useful for my alt fuel set up. I picked up the group 31 batteries. Ouch $$. Next hydraulic lines for my...

Hello all, A brief update. The drill pump failed. Now I have a lot of 1/2” fuel line, so, not really a problem. I’ll use my manual transfer pump to finish it. Just see that taking time. Looks like about 40 gallons. If I can get the siphon going it’ll be less effort. I looked at the fasteners...

Hello all, Fall is coming, but it was lovely today. I picked up the barrel, it has some fluid and based on the whiff it is diesel. I delivered it to the deuce and am slowly getting ready to transfer the “fuel”. I took a look at the wires on top of the tanks, they look pretty crusty. I didn’t...