oddshot
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Actually ... we're just killing time until the parts (i.e., new HH) arrive. I will be checking the timing tomorrow in the AM when its a bit cooler, but that's about all I can do for now.Not really off track, just a progression of a trouble shooting conversation.![]()
soanyoldways, as for when humankind was capable or producing the precision machinery required to build fuel injection pumps ... I'm thinking one hundred years ago we were just getting there. From wikipedia:
1910s
- 1910: The Norwegian research ship Fram was a sailing ship fitted with an auxiliary diesel engine, and was thus the first ocean-going ship with a diesel engine.
- 1912: The Danish built the first ocean-going ship exclusively powered by a diesel engine, MS Sealandia. The first locomotive with a diesel engine also appeared.
- 1913: The US Navy submarines used NELSECO units. Rudolph Diesel died mysteriously when he crossed the English Channel.
- 1914: German U-boats were powered by MAN diesels.
- 1919: Prosper L'Orange obtained a patent on a prechamber insert and made a needle injection nozzle. First diesel engine from Cummins.
Variable venturi, constant depression carbs (S.U. carbs and etc.) require a fair bit of precision machining. These were developed and produced in the early 1900's.
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