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Maximilien31-Jan-24 1:58
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Offline, I'm working on the restoration of a vintage industrial diesel railway locomotive. In the cab, a horizontal shaft extends the width of the cab, connecting a brake lever each end to a single air valve. The shaft is held by three brackets to the cab front sheet. Two of the brackets allow the rod to rotate freely, as it should; the third (central) one is rusted solid. Try as I might I can't free it, and in order to do so I need to unbolt the bracket so that I can whack it really hard with a big hammer and get it to rotate on the shaft. There's a bolt running from inside the cab, through the bracket with a nut on the outside of the cab. To get to the nut to release it, thereby freeing the bolt so I can whack the bracket, I need to remove not only the bonnet sheeting, but the fuel tank. The tank holds 50 gallons and extends the width of the bonnet - and is therefore huge; takes 4 people minimum to move it. A fuel pipe runs from under the tank to the fuel valve/injectors. I could undo it that end, but to get to the connector I'd need to remove further bonnet sheeting and then unbolt the inlet manifold (weighing around 50lb) and the air filters, and then the fuel injector; alternatively I could undo the pipe directly under the fuel tank; but the pipe is too close to the top of the flywheel to get a tray underneath to catch spilled fuel; so I'd need to take the flywheel off. That means dismantling the bearing assembly that holds the drive shaft, and then undoing the flexible coupling in the transmission.
What I don't understand is the amount of design and planning that went into the assembly of all this over 60 years ago. The shaft connecting the two brake handles had to be done before the transmission and fuel systems had been fully installed. WTF? D'Oh! | :doh: WTF | :WTF: Confused | :confused: And that's just one of several such conundrums.
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