ssorthiek

That one works.

I think I’ve got the o as a 0 or something. What a carry one!

Try this and I’ll do the same ..

2hnwuf9oes@gmail.com

Andy

The PM messaging system doesn’t work apparently and as a work around I have created the following EMail address :

2HNWuF90ES@gmail.com

Very random but if you could send me an EMail to this address I can then reply with my proper address.

Charlie,
when we have done, any chance of you deleting this post?

That’ll be great Andy and very much appreciated. I know very little about these yet and my focus is on restoring a Coleby with a JAP4/3 engine (you have posted on that post previously).

The look and feel is certainly an improvement on previouos issues. Well done to all involved.

Having sorted out the issue with the 5/16″ helicoils, I started to rebuild the gearbox. All was going well until I decided to try and press the bearings on with the bearing housing into the gearbox. As you can imagine I got the bearings halfway on but the stress was to much for the aluminium gearbox and three cracks appeared.

Off to the welders…[Read more]

Again, this helps a lot Neil and very much appreciated. I have found this on a well known Auction Website and it seems to be the sort of thing I am after and not for huge money at this stage.

I think I will get it and see whether it fits the bill.

Keith

Neil

This is really good information and very much appreciated. It maybe that what I am trying to grease I should be oiling so this is in itself really good information. I can’t find any information or manuals on the Kerry lathe that I have but that’s a different story.

I assume for all three types of grease nipple you mention, there must be dif…[Read more]

I have now spent a couple of weekends trying to sort the garage out, making it into a workshop ready for the warmer weather. I’ve now made myself a bench, got myself a little lathe, sorted out the pillar drill and so forth so it is all systems go for a gearbox rebuild.

I have found some Whitworth helicoils which is all to the good. There are no…[Read more]

Well, the gearbox is now back from the welders and the main worm shaft has been turned down, a collar heat shrunk on and turned to size. All looks good but I do need to helicoil one thread. 5/16″ BSW helicoil is hard to find a guess but I will keep my eyes and ears open.

I have just been cleaning the casting tonight and I think it should be all…[Read more]

GEARBOX

Well, the gearbox has been sent away for welding and the main driveshaft is away being machined. The shaft will have a collar heat shrunk onto it as recommended by charlie but if all else fails, then a new part can always be machined.

There is little to do until I get this back but the weather has turned hear in the North of England so…[Read more]

Thanks rollomk6, this is certainly interesting and I would certainly be interested in talking to you. Is this one on the Coleby Register by any chance? I know that one of the members has a register and I have asked him to put my details on with both the Coleby Juniors I have on it.

Thanks gents for the replies, it is very much appreciated and all well worth knowing, especially the effects on other component parts which is probably often overlooked. I’ll be looking at the FBHVC website in more detail to work out the water accumulation issue since I don’t really understand this at the moment, but leave it with me, it’s all…[Read more]

Thanks wristpin, that is most useful. It’s been something that has been bothering me about older engines in general and I’ll probably look for some additive before running my new Coleby in anger but that won’t be until next year now.

I suspect that adding the additive to a lead free engine won’t do that any harm either in modern lawnmower, but…[Read more]

Thanks Charlie, I should have taken a photo of the casing the other way up really, but the phosphor bronze bearing in the casing is sandwiched between two steel hollow shafts about 1/2″ long. I think they both have male threads on them but I’m not totally sure about this at the moment. Anyway, the inner retaining shaft has the other half of the…[Read more]

Still on the gearbox, I didn’t realise that the left and right hubs were different. I need to go back and look at photos and decide which goes where, just as well I kept all the components together for the left and right hubs together. I’ll soon have my other Coleby Junior to do a comparison in any case.

What I have found is that there is a home…[Read more]

Now onto the gearbox rebuild again.

The gearbox has now been fully stripped down and will be going off for welding shortly and something done with the PTO shaft all being well. The bearings have been removed and I might take the opportunity to get the casing shot blasted and powder coated, but this risks the bearing surfaces being shot blasted as…[Read more]