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It's an experiment as so many other ones on my trucks. It may or may not stay, there are better pumps and when I can afford it, an electric.

It's the crankcase breather valve, it vents permanently to the exhaust pipe and can be pressurized for under water ops. The whole engine is waterproof without preps for fording and swimming. Will, I'll check that, the shut-off lever is also sluggish. Adam, that space is supposed to be for the...

Started the LDS465-2 this morning. I have a sticky governor situation and used the fuel stop lever manually to control rpm. The engine started almost instantly and the oil pressure built up within seconds (ten strokes on the pump before start). However it raced up to 2,000 rpm plus and I could...

Should be fun. The engine now has all fuel lines and filters plumbed in. Visible in the pictures above is the heated fuel filter and the bypass oil filter (from Devilman).

Finished most of the plumbing today with a checkvalve installed to help matters. The pump is a fuel transfer pump designed to dispense fuel from a drum. In this application it also worked and by measuring the level drop in the oil pan, about ten strokes put 3 to 4 qts into the canisters and oil...