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Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

Curious to see how the VFD works out. Drillpress is on my list of things to eventually upgrade(along with everything else in the shop).

But maybe a motor/VFD on the current unit would be enough of an upgrade.
 
140mower said:
The motor shaft is bigger on the new motor, and the pulley doesn't have enough meat in its bore for enlargement. I am contemplating just going with a single step pulley. The other option is to take the motor apart and turn down the end of the shaft and put in a new keyway.....
Any suggestions?
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East peasy! Just write down the options, pin them up on the lucky decision maker behind the drill press and have your better half throw the dart!

Takes all the effort out of the decision. ;)

Bonus, you get to spend some quality time in the shop with your better half.

D :cool:
 
Whelp, when we last saw our haphazard hero he was well past his knees in rust...... Well, it turns out that if you find other things to do for 6 or 7 months, come winter you're right back where you left off......
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More rust... Guess what is under that?
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Peeled back the skin and low and behold, more rust. :rolleyes:
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A little more cutting, grinding and tin bashing and things are looking up? :rolleyes:
 
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I would imagine that there's going to be a little more rust hiding behind this once I get it out.....
I decided that I wanted to start using a full face shield and a dust mask a little more often.....
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Neighbors are going to think there's a new cook in the 'hood..... :p Wasn't cheap, but since I have several such projects in mind, it made sense to me. Sure nice not having black snot for days after....
 
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Another little folly that took my attention away from things I probably should have been doing. In my continual quest to mess with everything I own, I swapped in an Offenhauser intake and 4 barrel propane mixer on the old 300 six. I see that I didn't take any pictures after the exhaust got made up and installed.
I was hoping for a little more power than I got for my efforts thus far, so I picked up a 12 valve Cummins last week, once I get done with the dump truck I am going to try and focus my efforts on doing a swap as well as a 4x4 conversion on the old dually.

.... My name is Don, I have a freaking problem (s).
 
140mower said:
I was hoping for a little more power than I got for my efforts thus far,
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One of the things we learned in our testing was that boiling the propane after it got into the intake system significantly increased the density of the charge. The result was almost like using a supercharger or a turbo. That's also one of the reasons why we moved to liquid propane injection instead of a vaporizer.
 
Susquatch said:
One of the things we learned in our testing was that boiling the propane after it got into the intake system significantly increased the density of the charge. The result was almost like using a supercharger or a turbo. That's also one of the reasons why we moved to liquid propane injection instead of a vaporizer.
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Was it injected directly into the combustion chamber or just ahead of the valves at the ends of the intake runners? I would think that you are still trying to keep the charge air as cool as possible.
 
JustaDB said:
Gasoline would yield far more power than propane on this setup.

And, in Alberta, we use tarp straps to hold our battery down... :p
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It would run gasoline, except the truck is already setup for propane, and now that I have a Cummins to swap in I am losing interest in toying with it a whole lot more. But I do intend to rebuild the motor and repurpose it again in the future in another project.
In BC all we can afford are old broken ratchet straps and sometimes if it's important a little bit of duct tape may be employed. ;)
 
140mower said:
Was it injected directly into the combustion chamber or just ahead of the valves at the ends of the intake runners? I would think that you are still trying to keep the charge air as cool as possible.
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Injected into the manifold so you superchill the air. Some liquid fuel ended up in the cylinder but that ended on the compression stroke.
 
Hmm, a few engineer types need to look at the pics of that engine compartment. So much room, you could crawl in with the engine and have party in there. :D
 
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