[TheForge] Re: Retirement Plan (and a diesel question)

[Mike Spencer]

Michael Horgan wrote:

> The plan is to make sure I have enough projects to get done, that I'll 
> never have time to die.

Well, I'm 66 and it looks like this might be the year I finally get my
300# air hammer working -- at last I found a running, affordable,
industrial diesel with a TwinDisc clutch that I think has enough
power.  So, a whole new adventure in blacksmithing just getting under
way.

Question: Anybody have experience with a Deutz 3-cylinder air-cooled
diesel engine? (It's an F3L912 to be specific.)  I've seen it run but
the are several little things that need attention, one of which is the
tach cable.

The cable attaches to (what appears to be) a little right-angle
gearbox on the front of the engine.  I need to remove the tach cable
from the gear box and I can't figure out how to do it.  There's a
large male threaded collar on the cable but it's just sitting there,
not screwed into anything and there's no way it could be.  It looks
like it might be one of those parts that is designed to fit two or
more set-ups, one that uses the threaded collar and one that
doesn't. The cable appears to have been just, well, just "stuck into"
little gearbox where it magically stays.  And stays.  Can't find a
locking pin, snap ring, spring release.  Reasonable force doesn't
extract it.

Anybody know how this works?

(And I have a couple of other questions for you if you're a Deutz
F3L912 wizard.)


- Mike

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