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Devil to get out

Now I can't tell if this is the same as on the tractor Ben is working on as none of the pictures show what is fitted, but I think it probably is. The small reservoir was mounted onto the same support bracket as held the dynamo control box and I remember that the steel pipe on the top was a devil to get out if it had been over-tightened, when splitting the tractor to replace the clutch. This system was later simplified to just a larger bore plastic pipe on a ‘T’ union in the return fuel line from the injectors; the larger bore holding enough fuel without the need of the small reservoir.

The article by Niklas Larsson ‘Running on Gas’ was very interesting as I had often wondered how the system worked.

Alec Pullen,
Devizes, Wilts.