Looks good Pat. Maybe I'll bring you my impeller for balancing, 'cept I drink Coors so you may have to adjust your standards a bit.
The A/T impeller that I've got....I think they could've done better for the price they charge. It's all over the place when it spins. I think you can see one of the spots where a bunch of material was removed by Jack @ MPD. The blades are pretty nice, but the shell could be a lot cleaner. I'll probably play with it a bit more and do some cleanup work, then get the whole thing down to a proper balancer so it's perfect.Thats pretty much what I've always heard also.
I would use Loctite #680 on the knurling, we use it by the bottle, good stuff with fairly easy disassembly with little heat...
http://www.useloctite.com/products/product_details_retainingd119.html
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Hmm...something wierd keeps happening after I type about 20 lines or so...Brad? What's up with that? It won't let me see the line I'm typing after a certain point...
It's probably some default "STFU" notification.
If you have Internet Explorer 8 (latest version) you can hit the "Compatibility View" button and it should solve your problem. Looks like this:
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Its the little broken page one highlighted blue
Are you the Video Professor? ;D
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If you have Internet Explorer 8 (latest version) you can hit the "Compatibility View" button and it should solve your problem. Looks like this:
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Its the little broken page one highlighted blue
X3 besides that, makes drunk posting a breeze (spell check) ;D
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This thread....brings to mind a guy running a lathe....alone after hours.
He had been drinking, this happened about 10yrs ago.
Fkn guy falls into the turret/chuck........end of story.
Can't f/around with equip. like this :thumbdown:
Holy crap, that story for real???Yes this is one of many I know of GT.
That's F'ed up...
I remember a story about a dude that was working on a cement truck about 1990, had a few drinks with dinner and came back to work to finish some stuff up, this is one of those cement trucks that had the two foot in diameter sprocket and chain setups run by an Orbit hydraulic motor, I guess the gear caught his jacket and wound his poor ass up into the gears...DRT...
I have seen some stuff in my days (drove a tow truck for a very little while), but that had to be gnarly....
I guess now that I think about it, those older lathes had a compound gearbox and could run over 100:1 ratio's....
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Holy crap, that story for real???There was actual pictures on RD's place a year or so ago.
That's F'ed up...
I remember a story about a dude that was working on a cement truck about 1990, had a few drinks with dinner and came back to work to finish some stuff up, this is one of those cement trucks that had the two foot in diameter sprocket and chain setups run by an Orbit hydraulic motor, I guess the gear caught his jacket and wound his poor ass up into the gears...DRT...
I have seen some stuff in my days (drove a tow truck for a very little while), but that had to be gnarly....
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Pump ran great at the Tom Papp deal....comes out the hole HARD.
I fired the boat to run it 20 feet up on the trailer at the end of the day and had a strange groaning/whining noise.
Tore the pump down again tonight. Impeller looks good, wear ring looks untouched, bowl bushings look good, thrust bearing is somewhat audible turning the shaft by hand. The "wiggle" test with the impeller on the shaft showed .032" of clearance between the impeller and wear ring...which is a bit concerning. I cut the impeller before I had the ring, so I guess I deserved that. I was gonna yank the motor anyway...and it's easier than dealing with silicone on the transom plates, so I'll pop it apart and disassemble the bearing to see if something looks strange.
I used valvoline synthethic grease, per the A/T website...about 60 pumps or so....till grease was puking out of the bearing. Installed the driveshaft and wiped up the excess. I dunno. Koyo is a good bearing. Can't imagine that it failed this quick. I turned up a little spacer to use on the press when installing the bearing on the shaft so only the inner race was loaded...snap ring is snug against the bearing too. Maybe it's not the pump but I can't find any thing else that might make noise.
The bearing has less than 30 minutes of use. The strange part is...while beating on it all day there was no noise, even while cruising across the lake there was no noise. Only at idle when I fired it back it did I hear some noise.
I'll have it with my pasta for dinner tonight and see how it tastes.
This thread....brings to mind a guy running a lathe....alone after hours.
He had been drinking, this happened about 10yrs ago.
Fkn guy falls into the turret/chuck........end of story.
Can't f/around with equip. like this :thumbdown: