Pictures of EFM Install, Please Critique
- mooseman100
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These pictures kind of show my install. Open to suggestions of anything you may see wrong. I did this with only you tube videos
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As long as you keep the motor horizontal, it's fine.Salemcoal wrote:Horizontal circulator?
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what's wrong with that?Salemcoal wrote:Horizontal circulator?
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The PRV has no pipe connected to it,supposed to be piped down near the floor.
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The first pixture was with pins sheared. I just pit two pins in for the photo, not the proper pins.
There is a collar between gear and coupler that sloded over the clutch shaft
There is a collar between gear and coupler that sloded over the clutch shaft
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That's funny. It's not where the shear pin goes. It goes in the by the squared off end. That could be why you are shearing pins.
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There is a shear pin on the other end as well, by the square end
Scottscoaled wrote:That's funny. It's not where the shear pin goes. It goes in the by the squared off end. That could be why you are shearing pins.
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I see you don't oil the three holes for the routine maintenance
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Yes I do about every 4 weeks
Scottscoaled wrote:I see you don't oil the three holes for the routine maintenance
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You only use one on the squared end.
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You have a 350 spacer plate on your 520. Could you post a picture of your nameplate.