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There is a tag but looking at the manual it’s for the year and serial number unless I’m reading it wrong. But then this tag doesn’t follow the scheme as is. Missing the model
So after more measuring, I’m getting a 3.412” across the thrust face of the piston. Looking in the manual, standard is supposed to be around 3.384”, then add the .75mm (.029”), gets me to the above number. These are definitely .75mm oversize pistons. my conversions might be a bit off going from...
I pulled the pistons and they say
751-42670/0.750/5
And
72
10-10
Are these oversize or stock pistons ? After measuring im leaning to 10 over.
what do you guys think ?
I tried the mystery oil, it would help but but then the next day back to square one.
just pulled piston number 2, the cylinder bore has a few rust spots, and I’ll post a pic of the cylinder.
The cylinder leak down was the final nail in the coffin for me, especially listening to the air escape...
So got home from work and made the adapter for a leak down test. All 4 cylinders at tdc compression failed, can clearly hear air escaping from the oil fill port on each. Guess the rings are shot
I guess it’s rebuild time. Can anyone recommend a good kit to get ???
The saga continues.
Took apart the oil pressure regulator, looks decent. Only thing is I swear I read in another post on here there’s supposed to be some kind of steel ball that’s in here ? Not seeing one, also the spring looks deformed on one end ? Is this normal ?
these rats or whatever it was really made a mess of things.
The worst part is the smell, still trying to air it out.
I really hit the jackpot with this unit
Hopefully it was just stuck rings and the oil got them loose and they’ll behave from now on.
now to deal with all the wires chewed by the rats that had a palace set up in there lol.
Hey guys
so finally did a compression test yesterday, # 4 was around 450 psi, 1,2 and 3, not even registering.
poured some oil into each cylinder and let it sit over night.
holy crap, every cylinder almost at 500 psi right now.
I couldn’t find a compression adapter for this engine, so made...
The fuel pumps work ok, when I press the spring, they pump out fuel.
curiosity got the best of me lol, took out one of the known good pumps from #3, zip tied that shim pack together and measured it. 1 and 2 are no where close to this measurement. Somebody definitely messed with the shims. Gonna...
Sorry about that.
I only have one other thread.
https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/mep-803-fuel-pump-shimming.213554/
That one was about the shims for the fuel pump.
I made this one for the length of the fuel pump body. Figured they were two different topics.
again sorry, didn’t mean to...