Brandenberger
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2017
Hi,
Finally got the knee on my VN back together, put the feed motor back in,
and ran it this weekend for the first time in a year or more, having scraped
the knee, column, etc.
Happily the feeds all work.
Unhappily however after adding oil to the oil pan for the feeds motor silent chain drive
inside the column, a fairly large pool of oil formed under the machine.
Now as part of repairs I had removed the entire feed splined shaft housing and oil pan, but when reassembling I used gasketmaker and hoped to have gotten a good seal to replace the original gasket which fell apart when removing
Before I start looking for a leak, I wanted to ask other VN22L owners--
If you put in modestly too much oil (hard to see the level, manual says have the slinger
only immersed in 1/4" of oil, I might have had somewhat too much in there), what happens?
Does it normally find some hole and leak out the bottom of the machine?
Pictures of the pieces when I had them apart...
Finally got the knee on my VN back together, put the feed motor back in,
and ran it this weekend for the first time in a year or more, having scraped
the knee, column, etc.
Happily the feeds all work.
Unhappily however after adding oil to the oil pan for the feeds motor silent chain drive
inside the column, a fairly large pool of oil formed under the machine.
Now as part of repairs I had removed the entire feed splined shaft housing and oil pan, but when reassembling I used gasketmaker and hoped to have gotten a good seal to replace the original gasket which fell apart when removing
Before I start looking for a leak, I wanted to ask other VN22L owners--
If you put in modestly too much oil (hard to see the level, manual says have the slinger
only immersed in 1/4" of oil, I might have had somewhat too much in there), what happens?
Does it normally find some hole and leak out the bottom of the machine?
Pictures of the pieces when I had them apart...