Lister diesel smoking problem. Head gasket??

so what's with the smoking problem on start up.

[@irishmanshamrock8563]

Great video. I'm glad the channel is going well for you. You have great content. These old engines are so much better than the rubbish that is made today. It's great to see them brought back to life. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

[@NorfolkMancave]

yes it's nice when you notice your channel growing to be honest. it kinda makes you feel that it might actually help someone else who's unsure how to do these things. 🙂

[@Andrew-so3vj]

Great vid, Adam. I just finished a full nuts-and-bolts restoration of a 1970 SR1 which was a pile of rust after sitting by the sea on an island in the western Pacific for 40 years. Ants had nested in the cylinder, and their acid had eaten right through the piston crown! It's now generating electricity on a farm in northern New South Wales, Australia. Most of the Pacific islands ( including Papua New Guinea) depended solely on these tough old Listers for power, from single up to six cylinder models. I spent 5 very enjoyable years repairing them in PNG There isn't a tougher or more slmple engine than the old Listers. Parts are not cheap here in Australia, but they run for decades. Love you channel - keep up the good work!

[@NorfolkMancave]

ow wow what a exiting life you led good man. I've never left the UK. Yeah these are really tough old units that should keep going for decades. am sure once this is done it will go for many more years. Thanks for watching good friend.

[@DieseloveMotoryDOTsk]

Great video! I just liked and subsribed! 😀 I also have a Petter clone engine, so I'd like to learn as much about it as I can. Yours is different, but I enjoyed watching anyway! 😊 Good luck!

[@paulmitcheson9397]

The best bloke on KZbin.. Excellent videos. I wish i could get engines like that. Keep the vids up mate.. Awesome quality content. Love it

[@NorfolkMancave]

aw thanks very much. These old lumps are about. They just take some finding. I must say I'm liking this one. She really nice.

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

Hey funny man now with the head off ya'll can clean the air fins on the cylinder too. What blew the shim spacing was the rat nest which overheated the head bolts loosening them.

[@NorfolkMancave]

I think your onto somthing there mate. She runs a treat now tho.

[@sallywest5634]

Another super video Adam so glad you are getting so many views, and so you should, we always look forward to seeing what you are up to next. This old gal is going to look great when you have done with her. So glad it was only the nest and not the rat that dropped out Lol. Thanks for keeping us entertained, those who don't watch you don't know what they are missing.

[@NorfolkMancave]

aw thanks very much. glad you liked it. yeah I'm looking forward to getting this finished. just waiting for parts now. they should be here today or tmw. got the big clean up to do now. arr..

[@NotladYT]

Great video man cave glad the channel is progressing.

[@NorfolkMancave]

Yeah the vids on this are doing OK Dalton. I'm glad so many folk are enjoying them. 😉

[@Equiluxe1]

The shims are very important as they set the bumping distance between the cylinder head and piston, if you change the piston or small or big end bearings the bumping distance has to be reset to the correct gap, this is usually done using lead wire or plasti gauge on top of the piston torqueing the head down then cranking the piston over top dead center then removing the head and measuring the resulting thickness of the lead wire. I dont have the exact measurement to hand at present as I still have not found my book for the lister. The cavity is a combustion chamber, idea is it causes the air and fuel to mix better, it is a nickel alloy insert cast into the piston, I have known them to come loose.

[@NorfolkMancave]

Yes I understand that now. I'm just going to put in it what I took out. I not planed head or cylinder so hopefully nothing will have changed. Thanks.

[@astravanmk2]

Excellent Mr Fenn! You are going great guns with this. Keep em coming :)

[@NorfolkMancave]

Hopefully the head set will be here tmw so she can be put back together. I'm enjoying this old girl.

[@astravanmk2]

@@NorfolkMancave proper job!

[@James_Rivett]

Been watching this video this evening with Sybil. I didn't know they did a Afro style paint brushes haha.

[@NorfolkMancave]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@leebarnard9090]

Brilliant loving the videos keep them coming

[@NorfolkMancave]

I will do Lee. maybe another vid tmw.

[@leebarnard9090]

@@NorfolkMancave I will look forward to it 👍

[@manfromthemist1958]

Hi Norfolk man cave, great vid's keep up the good work, I've got a couple of video's of my SR3 rebuild which may be of help to you as it's the same but bigger, keep up the good work, Barry

[@NorfolkMancave]

Ow I will take a look. Thanks.

[@alan4391]

nice job your doing there mate

[@NorfolkMancave]

Thanks very much. I didn't like that smoke coming out of there. Hopefully head set will be here tmw or Saturday. 😃

[@bertbog5088]

Worked for Lister in Dursley for a number of years before they put someone in charge that had no clue and we got closed down, but it was said that you could get off a boat anywhere in the world and you would see a Lister auto-truck. Go to any outback farm and you would see a Lister engine running the water pump the electricity and or sheep shear. great engines never gave up.

[@NorfolkMancave]

Yeah such a shame they shut down. Old Listers really are built like nothing else. And yeah, everywhere you go you see a old Lister.

[@Graham19951]

I had my HRW6 rebuilt at Dursley and picked up a couple of 30 hp air cooled while I was there. My next fishing boat had a new JW 6 136 hp. Worked her for the next five years and never had a problem. Had a few 15 hp water cooled over the years and all were good. I also had a boat with a JK 2 30 hp thumper, fly wheel weighed several hundred pounds. Had a head gasket go in that one, but that was all. Got a fifteen hp air cooled Petter been sitting in the garden for a few years, was gonna put it on a trailer and do the shows with it but not done it yet. Boat was cut up but the motor was like new, had to keep it. My last boat had a 400 hp C6 Cummins, again rebuilt by by Cummins, and that was an amazing engine. Done 40.000 miles(yep thats right) in the first four years and never put a spanner on it. Its now sat in a field where the new owner changed to an Iveco. It will probably stay there until its scrapped, bloody shame. cheers.. @@NorfolkMancave

[@robertcoldham6849]

Thin shims are for adjusting the bump clearance (distance between top of piston to cylinder head) we used to assemble the engine with a piece of solder on top the piston, then turn it over by hand so it would be squashed thus indicating the clearance. Of course it then required disassembling again to measure the solder. We'll worth doing properly and they would run very sweetly when set up correctly.

[@NorfolkMancave]

Aw thanks very much for that. I may give that a go.

[@mattwitts1136]

1959 i was still im my dads bag lol keep the video's comming man cave !!!

[@NorfolkMancave]

So was I chap. Not borne till 74 me.

[@daviddamico4288]

I’ve never seen a engine like that before very interesting looking

[@NorfolkMancave]

yeah its a very different set up to what I'm used to. bit it seems to work. 😃

[@eskimojulie]

great video very interesting 👍

[@NorfolkMancave]

Thanks very much.i will keep it coming.

[@daveenns1119]

..Interesting as always.

[@NorfolkMancave]

Well thank you. glad you enjoyed it.

[@DragonPlauge2806]

Well that's intresting it even looks like it's slightly counter sunk into the head and those head bolts were lose compared to how tight these engines like them, would you do a video of just blowing out the cooling fins and cleaning it? I like seeing them get cleaned. Great vid as always 👍

[@NorfolkMancave]

OK I mate. I will film the clean up. yeah I thought them head bolts were a tad loose.. She will be up and running again soon. 😀

[@DragonPlauge2806]

@@NorfolkMancave can't wait to see it love this diesel engine

[@bernardsantiqueengines3128]

Wow nice one Adam😁. Now you can clean the whole engine with diesel as well haha😂😂😂

[@NorfolkMancave]

ow I will give her a good clean up. I like cleaning old engines down. am enjoying this one. 😃

[@lewisgardner1660]

Thanks Adam yet another enjoyable video, I enjoy watching you clean the engines it’s nice seeing them go from a frog to a prince. Have you found anything out about the Enfield old chap ?

[@NorfolkMancave]

I did do an update on the Enfield last week. But not looked any more into it yet. I will get to it tho. Will try and work this lister first.

[@Norfolkonsea]

1959, a year younger than me! 😲

[@NorfolkMancave]

yeah I assumed she was 70s. ots nice she is older.

[@theafro]

you COULD just heat that gasket up to a nice cherry red and screw her back together. once annealed and cleaned up a bit, copper head gaskets usually re-seal without too much bother. since parts are still cheap and easy to get for these it's not really worth it if you're willing to wait but it may be a useful trick in a pinch. there's a reason these old girls tend to be a favourite in far-flung parts of the globe, fixability!!!

[@NorfolkMancave]

yeah I should have new set today or tomorrow. I got a bit of cleaning to do anyway. am looking forward to getting this done I must say.

[@1700iDiGuy]

The smoke is likely the head ‘gasket’ (which is one or two soft metal rings, OR the seal between the injector sleeve and the head

[@NorfolkMancave]

Yes it was those gaskets by the look of that burn mark. quite a simple set up once it's apart.

[@1700iDiGuy]

@@NorfolkMancave the simplicity is just beautiful, i had an LD1 which was purchased from a guy who used it in conjuction with a water pump then left it in the elements for 8 or more years. Pretty much a full resto and it ran again like a smokey loud dream! I have videos on my channel of it

[@Brian0059]

Good year 1959 , probably being made when I was 😀

[@NorfolkMancave]

Good year it seems. 😌

[@danwaters115]

Are you going to have the valves out and re lap them?

[@NorfolkMancave]

I may well do seeming tho I'm this far in.

[@kenwheeler6150]

You're doing a good job but now is not the time for cutting corners. This engine has been cooked because of the mouse nest restricting the cooling air flow. Pull the cylinder off and give it a good cleaning on the cooling fins and a quick deglaze, The cylinder base gasket is just a thin copper one. The injector should be removed and the O ring replaced as it will be hard and leaking oil from the rocker box onto the cylinder head cooling fins. Don't forget to change the fibre injector nozzle seal, it is usually grey in colour and looks like cast iron so don't be fooled. Regards. Ken Wheeler Narrow Boat Services, Chester, UK

[@NorfolkMancave]

OK. Your right I may aswell do that seeming alto I got the whole kit. Thanks for your input.

[@ebrahimshokrian9508]

اشکال از واشر زیر انجکتور هست از واشر سر سیلندر نیست

[@lewisgardner1660]

Search Enfield stationary engine and they came up

[@NorfolkMancave]

I have got a Enfield twin diesel.

[@lewisgardner1660]

Yes those on eBay are twin diesel one as well, I thought you might be able to get one for spare for your one, they look like yours

[@niallthorogood1595]

Invest in a parts washer! State of that bench! 🤮

[@NorfolkMancave]

Lol. I have got 1 mate. I really should use it.