A little progress each day seems to work the best for me. Today not being the exception, I used my
home made ball turner to fashion a knob for the loader on the tractor. There was a ball of sorts on
the machine but it wouldn't thread on as it looked to be 5/16 NF or something like that and the shaft
was somewhat bigger and metric to boot. Anyhow, I turned a ball and threaded it in metric so it would
fit on properly.
It has a few scratches I see so will have to do a little more polishing.
The other project was to check out the condition of the oil in the Diesel KIKI injection pump. After a bit of research on the
web, it was determined that the oil that bathes the camshaft in the injection pump needs to be changed every 200 hours.
Several days earlier, I had removed the bottom screw and was mystified as what was in there looked like diesel. I thought maybe
I had identified the wrong holes. It turns out that the oil had not been changed for a long time as was diluted with fuel
and was red. I had been detecting some degree of lack of maintenance and that pretty much confirmed it. I drained out the
old stuff and had to use a pump oil can to reintroduce 6 ounces of fresh oil. The later diesels use engine oil to lube the pump
so there is nothing to maintain on them, a better system I think. If any of you HM guys have an older diesel, you might check
to see if it requires periodic changing of the pump oil.
Above the two Philips screws is the decal that gives the pump ID and instructions on the lubrication interval on the pump.
It wasn't legible and some of the hieroglyphics were in Japanese making the project a bit more challenging. Somehow I have to
get the black goo that has been accumulating off the pump. Scraping some of it off with a screwdriver worked to some degree
but it would be nice to maybe use some kind of solvent and get it cleaned up properly.