Hello All

I need an engine for the log splitter that I'm building.

It can be absolutely anything provided that it runs ok and comes complete with everything to make it run.

A small naturally aspirated diesel would be ideal - Escort, Nova, Corsa etc... But anything would do.

Nothing with fancy electronics, ecu's etc it needs to be simple to wire up.

It needs to be cheap, very cheap and relatively local to enable me to come in on budget

I don't want much do I

I'll be impressed if the collective can sort this one !

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=161114

But you're too late now. Sold on Ebay a week or two back!
I have a few 5-6hp mower type engines?

B*gger

My timing is as great as ever !

I think the hydraulic pump I've got needs more HP than that, could you U2U me a price anyway please.
I haven't forgotten the other bits I will be over soon.

Same price as the other bits.....
Actually, I have a 3.5kva petrol genny that will be about 8hp but I'd want cash for that. Cash and cake. But that would run your pump and provide power for some floodlights.

I'm looking into a similar thing at the moment, a log splitter aswell but run from the PTO on a tractor. At the moment it runs from the tractor's own hydraulics & way too slow unless I put it on a big tractor & set the revs high.
Do you know the displacment of the pump (how many cubic centimetres it pumps in a single rev)? Then you can workout how much power it'll need to reach the pressure you need at a given revs.
Also which way does the pump spin? There's a fair chance you could drive it from either end of the crank so that'd not matter but just incase your chosen engine would be difficult to connect to at one end then you'd need to know first. There's a lad I know who's built on using a Peugeot 106 diesel engine & driven the pump from the front of the engine with a coupling bolted to the front pulley & works fairly well apart from the pump is just a touch big & the engine could do with running a bit faster.
I worked out the capacities of the ram, the speed I wanted it to go & how big the pump would need to be at certain revs. On a 100mm ram 45litres per minute would move the ram at around 90-100mm per second which I thought any amount fast enough. To do that I'd need a 30cc pump running at 1500rpm.

I got the pump and ram from a guy on here ( Mark - top bloke ).
It's a fair size pump - I don't actually know the displacemnt.
Mark say it will need an engine of at least 30HP, to run around 2000rpm to get decent speed out of the ram - hence going for a car engine.
It's actually hooked up to a diesel Nova engine at the moment, but it looks like the engine is goosed hence the wanted Ad.
It's driven from the flywheel end, but yes, I'd had the same thought about being able to drive from either end - shouldn't be too difficult to sort out.

Yeah the Isuzu engine from a diesel Vauxhall would be a fair bet, fairly compact & tough no nonsense engine. What's not right about it? There was someting about them needing valve clearences checked & reset at high mileages as they can close up & make them bad to start I think, and it's already hooked up to it! Bound to be a Corsa or two knocking about & they way they rust the engine would still be good!

I have managed to work out the approximate capacity of a couple of gear pumps I've found for mine bt using a bent bit of MIG wire to meausure the size of the teeth & length of the gears, not sure how accurate it was as the teth have a curved profile etc but it'd be with 2-3cc I think.

Bid on this please, ill be glade to get shot of it! 99p to a £20 i honestly done care! eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace

I would do, but you're a bit too far away for me to collect

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Originally posted by hillbillyracer
Yeah the Isuzu engine from a diesel Vauxhall would be a fair bet, fairly compact & tough no nonsense engine. What's not right about it? There was someting about them needing valve clearences checked & reset at high mileages as they can close up & make them bad to start I think, and it's already hooked up to it! Bound to be a Corsa or two knocking about & they way they rust the engine would still be good!

I have managed to work out the approximate capacity of a couple of gear pumps I've found for mine bt using a bent bit of MIG wire to meausure the size of the teeth & length of the gears, not sure how accurate it was as the teth have a curved profile etc but it'd be with 2-3cc I think.

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Ah, it'll mabye be stuffed as you suspect!
Shame, a couple of hours re-shimming the vlves to get it running would've been a cheap fix.
Going off the one I know using a 106 diesel which is just a N/A 1.5 running at something like 1100revs & it just about copes ok so any small diesel car motor would do, & you could surely buy a few gallons of red diesel to make it cheap to run.

Still need an engine Peeps

Anyone got anything ?

Still looking.

Someone must have something that they don't want ??