Recent content by XterraJohn

I picked this up on eBay. It looks like it has been sitting in about an inch of water for an extended period of time and the bottom fittings were almost completely rusted away. The plywood back and bottom were rotted and pulled off easily by hand. Surprisingly the drawer felt seemed to...

If you look at 1:50 in the Extreme glass grinder video () it shows a clear shot of the label on the motor and it appears to be a V-Power VP-MC14G.

No, I sure didn't. A dial indicator is on my wish list but I don't have one yet.

It runs! Unfortunately, there's still a wobble on the flywheel in spite of it being new, so I'm guessing the crankshaft has a bend in it. I don't imagine it's enough to be a real problem, but it's just enough to irritate me. I uploaded a video of it running.

It's starting to look like an air compressor again. Yesterday I took the head and intercooler off, rebuilt the valves, and cleaned out the crankcase. I pulled one of the rod caps to take a look and there looks to be very little wear on the bottom end. There's still lots of visible cross-hatching...

I made some actual progress today on something other than washing out the tank. The makings of my manifold: After that it was on to wiring up the magnetic starter: The flywheel and motor sheave should get here Tuesday. In the mean time I went ahead and ordered a rebuild kit for the...

It sure doesn't seem easy. I started by putting some degreaser in and then filling it half way with water. The grease floated to the top and a big glob of it drained out the side port when the water was just about even with it. It seemed like there was probably more, though, since what came out...

After the first tube of grease I started just filling up the gun with water. To some degree it leaked passed the piston, and in order to build pressure I found that I had to quickly squeeze the handle. If I did it slowly I guess it would just slip passed the piston instead of actually injecting.

Using actual synthetic grease in the grease gun in order to pressurize the tank was not a smart move, in my opinion. I wasn't able to remove the larger ports on the tank and cleaning out an entire tube of grease mixed with random compressor nastiness (rust? carbon?) was disgusting. I saw a...

Awesome, that's definitely something that I'm wanting to do before I put everything back together.

Just a small update, but the new stationary switch came in today for the motor. After cleaning as much of the nasty grease out of it as I reasonably could I got the new switch installed and finished putting the motor back together. Here's a before: and after:

I think it's almost impossible to get every last bubble of air out, so there's some compressibility there, as well as elasticity of the tank, the fittings, the pump and gauge, etc, That is my understanding, at least, but I'm interested to hear what everyone else has to say.

I did it in the driveway and used a grease gun to build up the pressure. I tried to remove every bit of air that I could so as to hopefully not create an explosion if something were to fail.

I'm still waiting on the new stationary switch and flywheel to come in, so I decided to go ahead and pump up the tank with water to see what would happen. I knew that there wasn't an obvious drain valve on the bottom of the tank, so I had just assumed that the previous owner had put a plug in...

Air cleaner was missing when I got it, so no telling on that one.