Wisconsin Motor...Take 2

So the Wisconsin motor that Lynn and I rebuilt the week prior ended up spinning a bearing again. I guess that's what you get or a cheap/quick rebuild job. But the good this is it lasted long enough for the owner to take care of a few customers so he wasn't in a bind for time. So this time we pulled the bad motor out and stripped it down. The crank was ruined from the excessive heat but luckily the crank in the spar block looked good so we mic'ed it and it was still in good shape. So we moved all the components from the bad block over and rebuilt the motor on the spar block. Once it was all back together we tested it out and it all ran great. So we ran it at several different throttle positions for about 2/3 of the day to break it in and then returned it to the owner. So far its been holding up well under heavy use.

Today's Project...

Today a customer came in who owns a insulation company and said that the motor that runs the insulation blower/spreader was making a really loud clanking sound and thought that it had thrown a rod. So he pulled his truck in and also dropped off a spare parts motor. My job was to pull the broken motor and then cannibalize the spare motor. Lynn tore apart the broken motor and it turned out that it had just spun a barring on the crank. So we pulled a piston out of the old block and are going to put it in the new block tomorrow when a few other parts come in.

Other than that I spent the rest of the day cleaning up around the shop. We have a customer who is going to bring in three bran-new generators that got damaged in shipping so I had to clear a space for them.