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Fitted the blades this morning and adjusted them up, now for the clutch..

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Thanks Steve.
Been a busy one!
Been on Radio BBC Warwick this morning and BBC radio Suffolk this after, and hit all the national papers today, The Mail, Express, Times and the Telegraph!
I only thought we had tom tom drums down here in Somerset!
Best Andrew

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HA HA I could not possibly comment but I think you could be right I have seen some on a well known site too and they are the ones for sure.
hope this help’s
kind regards
Ian

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Hi chris thanks for your info yes its def a drayton and yes its a very heavy/big engine i will try to locate through the ransom side but as i say just cant find anything about the company but i believe someone in wales has all the old stock of parts

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Are they the ones on a well known auction site?
Hello all by the way!

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is there any chance off picture?

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Hi Charlie
dad just want’s it all gone so just to be sold and we are just outside Cambridge .
kind regard’s
ian

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hi does he have any prices in mind ?
Also where are they ?

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Thank you once more for your help!

I used this machine for 1 year and it was absolutely running fine.
All of a sudden the knocking began.

To take apart the flywheel, do I dismantle the drive shaft+clutch?
How can I take the flywheel?

Thank you.

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Guess that it’s been running with the flywheel loose and that it’s flogged on the key. Hopefully the damage is confined to the key itself and not either the key way in the crank or flywheel.
Get a new key – you can probably get a length of “key steel” from your bearing supplier – and cut it to take up the full length of the key ways. Key steel comes in both metric and imperial sizes – the Briggs engine will be imperial and I’m guessing 3/16 square.
Offer up the flywheel and see if the movement has been eliminated. If it has, put a drop of Loctite on each grub screw and tighten hard.
If the new key has not eliminated the slop there are two options. The easiest is to get some Loctite Bearing Fit and apply it to the bore of the flywheel, assemble the whole thing and leave it overnight before running . Hopefully that will have done the trick.
The second option requires a bit more skill and work and is to make an oversized key to eliminate the slop . I haven’t got any here to measure but you may find that the metric equivalent of 3/16 is a bit oversize and will do the job but S**s law says it will be undersize. You may have to start oversize and dress it with a flat file until it’s a snug fit.
Let’s hope that a new standard key and Loctite does the trick!!

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Thank you.
I did find the bearing 1203 and replaced both. It works.

But now I have another problem:
There’s a knocking noise coming from the flywheel.
It seems that the drive shaft from the engine isn’t fixed for 100% to the flywheel.
if you turn the flywheel for a few millimetre, the drive shaft isn’t turning.
Screw nr 3 on the flywheel seems not to be tightened for 100%, when i tighten the screw
there no knocking noise anymore for 1 minute, then it comes back.
Changing the screw nr 3 and nr 2 doesn’t help.
How can I fix this?
Thank you.

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1 – drive shaft
2 – screw
3 – screw
4 – flywheel

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Hi Stew
we are based just outside Cambridge , hope this help’s
Kind Regard’s
Ian

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hello ian
where abouts are you?

stew

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Fraid not, a bit far from Norfolk! But we have Marsham event this weekend, complete with tractor pulling, I haven’t heard if VHGMC are there officially, but we have been in the past. Weather permitting I’ll be there; without machinery I’m afraid, still no transport.

Fingers crossed for all of us with the weather this weekend!

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Here we go, is it like this ?

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