These are photos of Amthagouda repairs in spring 2010. I will post again to explain the repairs. For now...only photos:
The runner was installed backwards after one servicing. ...and for a reason that I do not recall (but will eventually), we needed to take the entire shaft assembly to the machine shop.
The manifold is fabricated in way that makes it very difficult to dis-assemble and assemble the main parts.
It doesn't help that the parts are quite heavy!
We broke two bearing pullers while trying to open the shaft assembly. Finally we designed a heavy duty puller of our own.
No easy access to grease the bearings!
We made the pulley/shaft key ourselves...and that maybe the reason we need such a big hammer to use a tapper lock pulley!
