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This got me intrigued enough to do a bit of googling. According to http://www.tadiesels.com/fuel_injector_acc.html , this is an "Injection Pump Damper".

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Regards, Kári.

Did a quick google, and the first result was a workshop manual, courtesy of David Cornwallis: http://www.davidcornwallis.com/uploads/LISTER_PETTER_T_SERIES_WORKSHOP_MANUAL_EDITION_12_MAY_2005.pdf The flywheel info is on page 54. The document doesn't allow copying, or I would have pasted the disassem...

Don't know if I should call myself an expert, but yes, if the voltage is lower with the engine running than when stopped, the alternater is definetly not charging, or at least not delivering enough current for the load. I would say that about 13V on freshly charged battery in good condition is norma...

So, I swapped the pipes, and to my surprise the problem turned out to be with the ram, not the control valve. This is a bit of relief, as the ram can probably be rebuilt, or, if unrepairable, replaced, at lower cost and trouble that the valve chest/block. And in further good news, the machine has de...

Could you swap the dipper pipes with bucket pipes and see how it works? Thanks, I'll try that and see what happens. As for the transmission, I strongly suspect that the problem may be low oil pressure/flow. For one thing, hardly any oil drips when I loosen up the joints of the cooler lines. To be s...

So, it's been, what, almost two years (Yikes! That can't be right!) since my last post. In that time the machine has proved quite useful, despite the occasional hickup. We found the proper oil for the transmission. It seems that the multi-purpose oils sold under the "UTTO" moniker by many ...

Sorry once more for the late reply. I'm afraid that I'm a somewhat unfrequent visitor here. Having luck? Well, yes and no, see next post for the ongoing saga :-) As for wiring diagram, I don't have one for this precise model. I have found here on CMN a service manual for the 550 and 555 models, whic...

Hi, and sorry for the late reply. Yes, in fact I have discovered discussions about this transmission else-web in sixty-something models. And Ford apparently continued to use them in only slightly modified form in the 550 and 555 models until the eighties, so it can't have been a complete failure. No...

Hi everyone. Since the ancestral JCB 3 ( http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4770 ) contracted a fatal malady, that is, a seized main bearing, my brothers and I have been looking for a successor. And now we have found one: http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/userpix/3394_2...

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Now I have a mental image of a government minister being debagged. Where was that brain bleach again?

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Best regards, Kári.