Thanks very much to all who have made balancing suggestions. As is well known, it is not possible to perfectly balance a single cylinder engine, except...
... This greasey garbage is actually coagulated engine oil and can jam up the governer quite nicely thank you, I had exactly the same problem on my 8-1....
... Laurence, I was told by someone who've been overhauling CS's for years that I should leave a 3mm gap between the flywheels and the bearing housing when I...
Nick, You can position the flywheels further apart, but both flywheels need to be the same distance from the bearing housing or the counter-balance in the...
Hi Lads,I have just spent the last 6 months refurbishing my Ruston Hornsby VTO1.- Yes I know this is a Lister site, but I also have a CS6! Anyway the VTO has a...
laurence thanks for that ,if i slack off rockers and remove push rods will cam and governer come out ,is there any thrust washers on inside of crank case on...
The fumes may not merely have been blowing back down through the roof/ structure - the gases may have been coming out through nooks and crannies in the brick ...
Dear TV I am sorry to hear about your disappointing results. The first thing to verify is that the chimney is not plugged with a bird nest. If you open the ash...
... Thanks for the reply Trevor. I have just aquired a 4' Victorian chimney pot which I will get fitted when I can find someone brave enough to go up the...
... Thanks for that.I'm going to extend the chimney pot first of all then if that doesn't work I will move the central heating boiler and use the chimney flue...
Folks, I've got a Metro brand Listeroid, and am planing on running it on WMO and WVO. I've got a heating system for the oil worked out, but was wondering,...
Daryl, That's a perfectly sensible idea, but how're you gonna do it? Mark mirroromatic wrote: Folks, I've got a Metro brand Listeroid, and am planing on...
hey up lads,whats a good engine oil to put in my cs6, proberly dont want to use to heavy detergent as dont know whats been in it before,and dont want it to...
Mark, I've got some "cartridge heaters", little metal cylindrical pieces with a couple of leads out one end, they put out from 100 to 400 watts, and they are...
This will either be outlawed or change the world, I don't know which, but its open source applied to the manufacture of manufacturing equipment which anyone...
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Jul 8, 2009 10:57 pm
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I would personally heat it with the Lister engine head. Running your engine will develop over 2000 watts of heat Try it out before you go too far. The...
Hi Daryl I run WVO in a 2002 VW Jetta TDI. I have 12 volt injection line heaters on the injection lines. Each injector line has about 4" of line heater taped...
 chaps ,  what is causing my cs to hunt, it sounds like a briggs and stratton lawn mower, ive cleand out all governer internals,removed all paint off...
Nick, There are governor spring modifications you can do to help against this. Have a search on the utterpower.com website for details. However, I would first...
since my last post i have changed to a diffrent govner spring, thats stoped the hunting,if thats the right word to use,now when starting up with a 40 watt bulb...
It is possible to achieve quite good voltage regulation on a Startomatic but it takes a bit of work to get it right. First of all forget the governor mod that...
mick  your a star , this is just what ive been needing to know for the last 6 months,and i bet a lot of other members in group didnt know all this,...
This is good stuff thank you! From: Lister_CSOG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Lister_CSOG@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nick booth Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009...
can any of you tell me what the large square wire wound gismo is on the right of picture also the small round one with 3 wires on it . am i right in thinking...
Nick if you are in the UK, Morris lubricants do a vintage engine oil range which includes monograde sae 10 to sae 50, I think sae 30 is the one for the CS ...
thanks again mick,   i was hoping you would respond,sorry for my ignorance on not knowing what all parts do and thier values,my book only tells 50% of...
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