WATER-COOLING
Water-cooled engines in which a pump is used to circulate the water, often give trouble at the pump gland, as neglect to tighten the gland nut at the first sign of leakage leads to scoring of the pump shaft, after which a watertight joint is most difficult to obtain.
A good plan is at intervals of a .fewmonths to slack the gland nut right back and introduce a little graphite grease behind it. This keeps the packing soft and lubricates the shaft. The only tiling to do when the gland always leaks and cannot be cured by fitting new packings is to strip the pump and polish the shaft until all signs of scoring have been removed.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 260, 29 July 1932, Page 3
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118WATER-COOLING Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 260, 29 July 1932, Page 3
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