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VEB Fimag dgk 3.5-2 generator

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C-101plowerpower

hi all, i've got myself some east german equipment. a VEB fimag generator with a VEB cunewalder diesel engine type 1 vd 8/8 sl.

it doesn't run at the moment since there are some parts floating about in the sump mellow.png very little compression and missing a few parts.

all in all a nice project to do when i'm bored. oh and since you lot are a bit pic hungry here's some

 

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nylyon

even though it doesn't run, that's a slick looking generator!

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C-101plowerpower

thanks Karl :)

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C-101plowerpower

got some more work done on the engine today, found out why bits of the governer were floating about in the sump.

the culprit is this little piece here:

 

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that little piece was behind the big gear you see in these pics:

 

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when we got those things out we thought lets see why there is no compression so we put some oil down the bore. still no improvement sad.png

so off came this piece

 

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then this piece:

 

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which doesn't look too healthy

 

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and off came this lot

 

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it soon became clear why there was such little compression, the piston rings were stuck right in the piston dry.png

as can be seen here:

 

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the piston pin(is that the right word for the damn thing?) was almost completely stuck in the con rod, turns out there are a lot of burrs on there where the previous guy that worked on it hit it with something banghead.gif  

 

anyway time for a cuppa and a  b.gif to not get too angry at that previous guy

 

that's all for now

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C-101plowerpower

i've had another look at it this evening and when i was turning the crank with the mounted pully it struck me, i still have one of those thingies you put in a drill and put a socket on.

so i made this

 

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the socket on the end goes here:

 

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now i spin it at a reasonable speed and we were able to get it to produce 3 whole volts, sound  a bit week but atleast we know the genny still produces "juice"

now, here's some pic's of the genny part

 

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woodchuckfarmer

Great pictures, hope you get her going. How old is it?.....Wayne

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C-101plowerpower

it's from the early 80's

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C-101plowerpower

quick update,

 

I haven't made a lot of progress, pretty much none actually, but i ordered something that will hopefully prove to be quite useful with ordering parts and putting it back together

 

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i think it is quite a find, an enlish repair manual for a east german engine

 

 

that's all for now

th_woohoo.gif  got my repair manual today smile.png some very usefull info in there, some not so usefull info. anyway here's the engine specs for you guys

 

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you guys remember those little dohickys from the governor that were broken? well i found some replacement parts, brand spanking new, well NOS actually

 

I'm talking about these thingys

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hearing the engine run for the first time is getting closer smile.png

 

now i need to search for some piston rings, don't suppose anyone has a set laying around, but if you do let me know wink.png

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Sparky

So what is the generators output? I power my house with a 240/120 volt-7000w (8250 surge watts) generator. Is all your voltage over there 240 volt?

Mike........

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C-101plowerpower

yep, our mains is 240 and we have 400volts 3phase. the power output isn't that high on this genny, only about 3500w

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C-101plowerpower

whohoo, found me some piston rings frantics.gif

 

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C-101plowerpower

well finally an update on this machine.

 

we found some more culprits of compression loss(being non existant really) the darn thing wasn't timed proparly

also this didn't help either

 

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yep that's right that's one rather crusty exhaust valve <_< oh and can you tell i'm dutch :lol:

 

BUT, we found new valves online and got those yesterday

 

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we got those installed and after some lapping the fitted pretty nice

then came the buttoning up part

 

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all buttoned up and no place to go :)

 

and this evening it made some bloody noise :hdance:

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Horse46

Very cool guy's, it sounds brilliant. 

Nice to to see the older guy letting go with excitement NOT :laughing-rofl:

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Wheel-N-It
I enjoyed hearing that old diesel engine come to life one more time.
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