On Saturday, July 19, volunteers Dwight, Colin, Bryan, Dannis and Paul worked to finish the battery cable connections on Engine 103 that we didn’t complete last week. After rearranging a couple of the cables, we got that work done and made our first attempt to crank the engine. The crank with the cylinder cocks open went fine, but when we tried to fire it up, we found the fuel rack locked up. Well, time to scratch our heads and go eat lunch.

During lunch, we started reading through our 567 maintenance manual, and found that we might have stuck injectors. So after lunch, we head out to investigate further, and found that yes we do have two injectors that are stuck, which causes some other things to happen. In our manual, they mention that this is something that happens occasionally when a locomotive sits without running for a long time. So we disconnected the fuel rack linkage from the governor, and started working on the remedy mentioned in the maintenance manual. We did get one injector to free up and start working, but we could not get the second injector free yet. We will back next week! Also, Dannis did a good job cleaning up the cab of the locomotive, which after sitting unused for two years needed some work!

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– Paul