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Topic: Continental Water Pump Repair

Posted By: rustydollar
Subject: Continental Water Pump Repair
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2017 at 9:38pm

The Little Dipper loader that I had purchased from the fertilizer plant had a Continental diesel engine with a bad water pump. Rebuilt pump $400.00 plus.

After doing a few searches found a bearing and seal kit for $40.00, now that works for me.

Once the kit arrived removed the water pump, drilled a small hole deep as I could go dead center on the shaft, bringing that hole up several sizes larger. What drilling the hole did was relieve the outside tension on the shaft allowing me to use a punch to drive out the shaft and old bearing.

Before driving out the shaft you have to remove a clip which is accessible through a hole in the pump casting.

To reassemble the pump I had warmed the body in the oven, bearing and shaft in freezer for half an hour. The cast housing only has to be hot enough to use gloves to handle.

Parts fall into place with out the use of a hydraulic press.

Now what fertilizer does to a radiator over time is another matter entirely. The rest of the loader had half and inch of rust shale on all the steel parts, wheel nuts taken down to a size not found in your socket set.

I did not pay very much for the loader and used it for three years to keep our driveway clear of snow, then I discovered snowblowers.

The advantage of blowing the snow is spread out and melts with the first rays of spring sunshine while piles stick around to mid summer.

Late model snowblowers are junk, the brass crown gears these days are manufactured using powdered metallurgy.

Using old technology the gear was hobbed out on a hogging machine a procedure that took an hour or more. Powdered metallurgy they pout the powder into a mold then compress it under very high hydraulic pressure then bake the finished gear in an oven.

The manufacture is able to cure hundreds of gears each time.

You'll find powdered technology in most of your shop tools, kitchen and outdoor products. I personally do not think much of it.

Key words in the video, meeting manufacture duty cycles. AKA will it make it past warranty.

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Posted By: rustydollar
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2017 at 9:54pm

Henry Ford and his Model T

The Model T was not made famous because it was cheap to purchase but rather for its quality, Hnery discovered the use of Vanadium would strengthen his automotive parts.

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2. Vanadium Steel

This lightweight, durable, easily machined steel alloy was developed in Europe and used on racing cars and premium-priced vehicles before Ford became aware of it around 1905. He recognized that the material's high tensile strength (nearly three times greater than cheaper, lower-grade steels) would allow him to make a stronger, lighter, better performing car. Ford and his small team of engineers first tested vanadium steel in their Model N and S cars during 1906/07, before deciding to use it in many of the Model T's critical highly stressed parts including the crankshaft, forged front axle, and wheel spindles.