Porsche -Diesel Tractor

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:24 pm

Thanks Tom and James for the quick work !

As requested here is a photo of my tractor (in it's current state)

Chris

impmad2000 · Post by **impmad2000** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:42 pm

The 'Maverick' Porsche Club for Classic Porsche 356, Porsche 911, Porsche 912, Porsche 914 & Replica Fans

.. And Tractors

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Love it !
Where's the rest of the engine Butzi ?
Tim

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:42 pm

Where's the rest of the engine Butzi ?

Amazing that just one cylinder can lug all that cast metal around AND still pull a plough!

Chris

gridgway · Post by **gridgway** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:08 pm

what capacity is it?
GRaham

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:34 pm

Hi Graham,

The capacity is a whopping 822cc with a CR of 19.1 and a LOUD diesel knock that makes you think the big end is failing the first time you hear one running.

Power output 14 -15HP and (almost) impossible to stall -such is the torque and the size of the flywheel.

Chris

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:49 pm

Found another video with some good period footage edited in with some more modern stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_2hmfWT17A

Chris

gridgway · Post by **gridgway** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:57 pm

Astonishing Chris! Reminds me of my youth spent with my father and brother inshore fishing. My brother bought a lovely Scottish fishing boat - a motorised fifie like the one here (but wihout sails)

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It had a gardner 4LW 64bhp diesel. Now before we saw it, we couldn't believe that 64 bhp was enough to propel a trawler. But this 4 cyl thing was huge, it rotated so slowly that each cylinder seemed to fire every hour!

Is reminiscing a sign of old age?

Graham

porker914 · Post by **porker914** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:39 pm

oh arghhh! now where is my combine harvester!!!!

burgundyben · Post by **burgundyben** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:04 am

gridgway wrote: .

4LW, lovely piece of kit, one of my favourite boats has a pair of 4LW's, Tahilla, a Dunkirk little ship.

Gardner's are engine porn.

Interesting picture of reaper, I know someone that will like to see that.

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:27 pm

I work on narrowboats so quite often get grubby working on Gardners, amazingly there are still quite a few on the inland waterways.
You loose 10ft of your boat to have a 4cyl in there, beautiful engineering though.

burgundyben · Post by **burgundyben** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:43 pm

Apologies for the thread drift, I had occasion to look over a pair of 8LW's and a 1LW to run a compressor to fill a tank to start the 8's a fortnight ago, some lovely engineering.

gridgway · Post by **gridgway** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:46 pm

ok, sorry I started it, that's enough! I'll have to buy a boat otherwise.
Graham