[AT] Winter storm and cold

Mike meulenms at gmx.com
Mon Jan 6 20:59:20 PST 2014


With the head off, that sounds like a kitchen table job to me :)

Mike M

On 1/6/2014 11:25 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 1/6/2014 10:05 PM, Paul Waugh wrote:
>> If I am reading this right .... you pulled a set of injects out of a tractor
>> in a shop at -15F. How in the world do you anything with gloves on or how do
>> you keep metal from sticking to your hands?  Just wondering.
> Paul, definitely not with bare hands. And gloves are useless to me in
> this country's cold. I wear heavy wool mitts inside an outer leather
> mitt and can usually keep my hands warm enough but there are times even
> that fails.
> The head was already off the tractor and on the bench. Hold down nuts
> were off. All I had to do was grab two curved pry bars (small tire irons
> actually) and do some gentle prying and carefully lever them up out of
> the head. First time I had ever removed a Perkins injector and I had
> been warned it could be difficult and possible to break or damage
> something. So I had been stalling on the job for a month or more. Today
> I felt inspired for some reason. One small step at a time getting that
> Massey back in service.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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