1 : 1 scale modeling

[e-paw]

A fun, fun, fun, day was had today. Our first task was installing the rebuilt water pumps into the "B". The old connections were cleaned of what remained of the old gaskets, grease, and rust. That took the better part of the morning. They attach to the front part of the block, one on either side where the open holes are.    

Here they are installed and gasketed up. One more flexible pipe needs to be run from the pump to the expansion tank right behind them, but we need to get those still. And yes, we are one bolt short, that will have to be taken care of before we torque that one down.    

Then it was over to the SW-1 to wrestle the rear section of the hood off. After lots of grinding, cutting, and swearing we gave it our first attempt at lifting the stack section of the hood off. It just wouldn't come off. Metal creaked and moaned, the locomotives weight was lifted off the truck springs, sledge hammers were swung. but still nothing. It held fast to the rear section of the hood. We then repositioned the straps and just lifted the rear hood to try to break it free from underneath as seen here in this pic,,,,but still nothing.