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!