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If you like trains check out on Utube ''Fort Madison IOA USA Virtual Railfan live''. Beautiful setting on the Missisipi river, marina, Huge railway and road swing truss bridge across the river. Trans Continental trains pass through some miles long with several loco's. Massive push river barges. Middle of the night there at the mo,about 6 hours behind us.

When I was an apprentice at a garage, the pump attendant owned a lovely M1 Ford Zodiac. He drove it into our workshop to have the tappets adjusted. I didn't know but he was one of those folk that left it in gear with the handbrake off. I'm leaning over the front with the valve cover off, I pressed the solenoid button and it stuck ON and the car pushed me towards the red hot old oil heater, Shouted for help and a buddy Tom came and clouted it with a hammer which save my pants fro getting burnt.

Many old cars had them. They were so handy for jogging the engine over from under the bonnet to adjust tappets or ig timing. Didn't need to have the ignition switched on to do this.

Don't mount it on the engine but connect it's fixing bracket to the engine mass with a cable

They have others similar. Check out A.E.S interesting new old stuff. Oh you;ve done it

Use one like this from AES.

Do you mean a solenoid built onto the starter motor or a stand alone one to protect the ignition starter switch ?

The 2286cc 4cyl petrol engine was a superb engine, smooth, quiet with plenty of power, originally fitteed to the Rover P4. The L/R diesel was also 2286cc but pretty sluggish. Main things to check before buying are rusted rear of chassis. Make sure the F/W/D works ok with both red and yellow levers. Front tractor joint oil seals leaking.

Sounds like the exel you put on is wet or damp. Dry it first.

If when you wish to buy your first narrow boat, I'd go for an ex hire boat as the fundimentals like engine and transmission wiring and plumbing ect are done properly. Hire companys don't want to keep going out to broken down boats or busted facilities.

I've known a couple and one I saw catch alight were the old Ford V4 and V6 petrol engines in cars when the carburetter over flowed petrol into the hot inlet manifold valley between the cylinder banks usually when the carb overflow tube had fallen off which took any petrol overflow off and away. The pool of petrol would be ignited by the sparking contacts in the distributor which was mounted there, or by arcing HT leads.

What about the other starter motor, does it have one too, and does it click when starting its engine?

I remember that transporter bridge, we always looked at it from the train which usually called at Runcorn on the way to Liverpool from Euston.

If the crank was very stiff to turn maybe the reconditioners only used new piston rings on the old pistons and didn't scrape out and clean the ring grooves before fitting them, causing the stiffness. I've come across this a couple of times in the past.

In the filler neck.

I reckon it must have straight cut spur gears, Noisy I would have thought.

Almost certainly that reduction box has helically cut gears and will need a pressure gear ol ep80/90 probably.

They must be really well sealed then as stainless steel is not a good bearing metal for bearing tracks and balls.

These self aligning bearings are not really meant for marine use they're machine shop bearings for use in dry conditions. Only boat builders found them an easy way of avoiding using propper plain top bearings which entails accurate alignment of the bearing and skeg socket.