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Glenn M

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    Weymouth
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    Gas engineer
  • Boat Name
    Juno
  • Boat Location
    North Oxford canal

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  1. Glenn M

    Ruston 2VSH

    Yeah I had some idea about what you’ve said there.. I’ve managed to get 3 new old stock nozzles for my VRH injectors which arrived yesterday and hopefully we will start stripping the old injectors over the next few days, they are currently soaking to help them come apart a bit easier! In the mean time I’m going to try and get the flywheel back on now the ring gear is all fitted and carry on with the extension of the boat!😊
  2. Glenn M

    Ruston 2VSH

    I know this post was a good few years ago now but I have a 3 vrh which I am going to be using in our boat which we are currently extending and then refitting etc.. I am after some decent injectors for it as the ones I have are in pretty poor condition…. but I have a set of 3 brand new injectors for the VSH engine, they came from Ruston and were the very last ones that they had in stock! I bought them as I’d bought a 3 VSH but it was well beyond repair/ rebuilding as it’s been outside for years and years, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of useful bits on it but it does however have all 3 of the injector pumps ( these are in dry storage ) which I believe are as rare as the injectors themselves and all of this might be for sale depending on whether I can use the injectors (with some modifications) to run properly in my VRH.. I’ve just had the pump for the VRH fully reconditioned by marine diesel services in Hove who managed to make one good pump out of the original pump and one form a Lister JP3 that my father had hidden away in his garage! They’ve done an absolutely fantastic job of it so I am one step closer to getting this engine running, seeing as it hasn’t run since the 80’s this is quite an exciting prospect! Any advice would be appreciated
  3. Quite interesting reading these posts, the engine has remained in that same shed on the Isle of white until yesterday when I bought it! Will be bringing it back in the next few weeks and then will start marinizing it to go into our recently acquired trad narrowboat well, I’ve done an awful lot of trawling the net as you do and I’ve managed to find a starter ring that is 480 mm for less than a hundred quid! The engine has a 25 inch flywheel but it has 2 steps in it with the smaller one being about 500mm …. and having found a pic on line of one with electric start, the ring gear was fitted to said smaller step! .. so with (a lot of) luck it will fit the flywheel. On the subject of luck, I do have someone down here who can spin a 25 inch flywheel in his lathe! I will leave the county while he does it though!!🤔😁.. then it’s just a starter to sort. A bit more luck is that I have a set of 3 new VSH injectors which I was really lucky to pick up from Lincoln diesels a few years ago for a 3 VSH that I bought but as it’s way beyond sensible salvage I was going to sell them, looks very likely that they will work according to my local diesel pump and injector expert friend.. I also have a spare injector pump off a JP3 (total luck) which is the same model but might need some alterations to make it work as the rack on the Ruston one is solid at the moment!! All good fun Thanks John.. I’ve got to sell some of mine too! Workshop will be overrun soon if not!
  4. Quite interesting reading these posts, the engine has remained in that same shed on the Isle of white until yesterday when I bought it! Will be bringing it back in the next few weeks and then will start marinizing it to go into our recently acquired trad narrowboat
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