Be careful there are some big forces involved. I have wrecked a jack by overloading it. I was still able to pump the handle but the main shaft bent. You would think that 6 tonne would shift it but I have had them very tight. On one the key sort of jammed. The boss was still Ok though
Photos please.Well if it all turns out well anyway
Jeff, jack only worked horizontally till it came under pressure , so I had to end up sitting it on a workmate type bench so the ram/puller could hang underneath. Worked fine, got it off in a few seconds but the jack was working pretty hard till it got it moving
I'll bet it made a decent crack when it let go. Is that jack only 6 ton. It looks more than that. Must be an oldy but a goody.
Now it's just replace the seal and you are good to go.
What a pity all this ingenuity is on a Briggs rather than something decent. Maybe we will have to get used to them when our 2 strokes run out. They really are not that bad. I lookafter a couple of those Sprint 375's which have been good for many years on big blocks.
Those couple of modified LM carbys I have are still going fine. No issues with the metal needles and new seats either. First pull starts mostly. So is the FC 24 converted to PT.
That motor is a dead one Jeff, just used it to make sure the jack setup would work, just have to try it one one with the motor still on the body to see if I can save pulling the motor off. With the modified carbys I have done, be over 200 of them, very rare to see one back here. The metal needles seem to have settled down problem wise, I had a bad run with them for quite a while, may have been something wrong with some of them. I have gone through about 150 of them so far
That jack setup looks good ,I must have missed that pic in March ,the problem I was having was with the 2 bolts that screw into the bearing clamp, they are Whitworth threads so the bolts used were not high tensile and after a while the bolts would stretch and break.
