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

[Ron Childers]

Mike,

Is there a side plate on the gear box? There may be a set screw holding the
cable housing, but the Waukesha diesel on my welder, I believe, has female
caps on each end. 

The cable is round except at the ends where it is squared to go into the
gear on one end and the tachometer on the other. Something has to hold the
cable housing in place and that is what keeps the cable from coming out. You
said "Reasonable force doesn't extract it". Are you talking about the cable
itself, or the housing? If it is the housing, clean everything really good
and look for a set screw. 

For a bit more specificity you might try www.boatdiesel.com/forums/index.
I'm just making a swag; I've never seen a Deutz. 

Ron C

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


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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