LW sprayer prickers

[Wrinkley]

Hi all

 

After reading the manual I am apparently 'allowed', nay, encouraged to clean the outside of my sprayers. Anybody know where to buy the prickers?

 

ps Thanks to Tim for the tool to remove the sprayers. Made the job so simple.

 

Graham

[RLWP]

I believe the prickers have gone the way of the Dodo. Ultrasonic cleaners have rendered them extinct

 

That's what I found out when I was looking for some anyway

 

Richard

[jenevers]

What symptoms would you experience to make you think "Hmm time to clean the sprayers on my LW"?

[LEO]

Hi all

 

After reading the manual I am apparently 'allowed', nay, encouraged to clean the outside of my sprayers. Anybody know where to buy the prickers?

 

ps Thanks to Tim for the tool to remove the sprayers. Made the job so simple.

 

Graham

 

Hi,

 

I purchased one of these tools as well - nice to get something hand made and not stamped 'Made in China'.

 

L

[RLWP]

What symptoms would you experience to make you think "Hmm time to clean the sprayers on my LW"?

 

Build up of soot on the end

 

Richard

[luctor et emergo]

 

Build up of soot on the end

 

Richard

Pedantic mode on...

 

 

That is not a symptom.

 

Pedantic mode off...

[RLWP]

Pedantic mode on...

 

 

That is not a symptom.

 

Pedantic mode off...

 

Isn't it? Oh look, I have a lot of soot on the end of my injector. I wonder where that came from?

 

Richard

[David Schweizer]

 

Isn't it? Oh look, I have a lot of soot on the end of my injector. I wonder where that came from?

 

Richard

 

So what symptoms would present themselves to think " I wonder if there is any soot on the end of my injectors?"

[TimYoung]

Maybe you should get a proper engine which needs but a rag, a sharpened matchstick and WD40 to clean it? (Bolinder B9M10)

 

Tim

[RLWP]

 

So what symptoms would present themselves to think " I wonder if there is any soot on the end of my injectors?"

 

That's a great question. How would you notice poor combustion?

 

Richard

[David Schweizer]

 

That's a great question. How would you notice poor combustion?

 

Richard

 

Lumpy running. Black smoke? do I get a prize for the correct answer?

Edited March 4, 2014 by David Schweizer

[RLWP]

 

Lumpy running. Black smoke? do I get a prize for the correct answer?

 

If there were a prize, perhaps

 

Richard

[Proper Job]

Find some deep water and give the engine a damn good thrashing

 

To much slow running on light loads is the problem

 

edit

I realise that I have just setup a Faulty Towers comment

Edited March 4, 2014 by Proper Job

[Alan Saunders]

In mid 2012 the pricker and the lapping tool were obtainable from Gardner Parts (Leyland, Lancs) see Web Archive.

I got mine from Gardner Enthusiast but their Tools Page is now empty. Roberts Hall is in Chalgrove, Oxon.

Both are worth an email enquiry.

 

An article in the Autumn 2005 Gardner Forum Newsletter No.9 (pdf) (from 1944) suggests the sprayers should be serviced at 10,000 mlle intervals. Maybe ~300 hours for a boat engine. On that basis I should be doing mine every three or four months but I last serviced mine 2,000 hours back. Maybe modern fuels and additives allow an extended service interval?

 

I so wish that my 1950 Marine 3LW had come with the original, comprehensive, tool-kit.

 

HTH, Alan