Roadsteam

Natural England wont permit the required bank repairs there due to water voles is what i hear. Now the farmer has fenced the4 field with barb wire you cant even utilise the gaps in the hedge to walk along the field.

But if the sign has not got the CRT header on it its not official so as said bin it.

When checking the oil level make sure that the reverse box dipstick is the shorter of the two. I had an LH150 that would not come out of forward and investigation showed that both boxes had dipsticks for the reduction box, result that even on the high mark the oil pump was sucking air.

When were the fuel filters last changed? it could be fuel starvation if it has got worse as time has gone on or has it always been like it?

Lock 2 had a binding top offside paddle last week, maybe that has jammed up.

Metal on metal pipe joints no goo needed unless its taper threads then a turn of PTFE tape.

Edit. What Tim leach says as his reply appeared while i composed my reply

In Oxford and Banbury i have actualy been hit by cyclists passing too close and too fast with no warning of their approach from behind and its my fault acording to them.

Strapping 20 tons of boat with the rope around its neck will see how well its anchored down.

Use it as a bollard, woops its fallen over.

HR, ST etc, no problem with returning to the filter, its how ours were piped from the factory.

API CC, any higher will not be a good idea, i had to glaze bust and re ring a bunch of hand crank listers which had been run on Castrol RX Super 15w40 which was something like API CE. I removed an oil filler cap on a running engine which was a bit of a pig to start(they all were) and it shot the filler cap the length of the workshop followed by a blast of oil which left a black sprayed line on the underside of the roof about 10ft above. All the engines were badly glazed in the bores. The glaze bust and re-ring cured the starting while using the manufacturers recomended spec of API CC.

I asked because i got the chap with it at Llandudno to demonstrate the reversing for me and i thought that it might interest some to see it. To reverse it without altering the revs setting you wind the direction handwheel(painted red) to mid gear and just before the engine stops turning wind rapidly into gear the other way giving the start air valve a quick lift to help. I believe that at full air pressure the built in linkage from the direction control should be enough. The Pochins engine is the other of the pair also pictured on here.

Anybody got any footage of the starting and reversing of a 3J5.