[Vwdiesel] Seeking experience or data on Petter stationary diesels

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That sounds like a practical question.  The answer is no.  I am just assuming that it is siezed rings to cylinder bore.  At some point I'll pull the inspection cover off one side of the crankcase and look inside.  Once I know what engine this is and have a source of a head gasket and rings I'll pull the head.

I should pull the injector and lookee see inside.  If I cannot get line of sight into the cylinder from the injector port that won't help though.  I don't know if this engine uses a pre-chamber.

Right now I'm trying to fabricate a fitting to put compressed air into the intake port.  This will help push the loosening solvent into the ring area and hopefully past into the crankcase gioving them a good soaking.  I hope that with as much as 1000 pounds force applied gently to the top of the piston it will break free.

With a big pry bar on the flywheel I can move the crankshaft rotationally back and forth about 3/32"-1/8" clunk-clunk.  That is at the edge of a ~16" diameter flywheel.  That indicates to me that the crank is probably free but that the piston is not moving and that the play I have is the bearing lash in the crank and rod pin bearings.  Of course I could be wrong.

I have absolutely no idea why the plant was abandoned.

Thanx for the input.

Rob
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  Have you checked to be sure there is not any other reason the crank won't move?  Why was the genset abandoned?  Spun bearing? 
  Andrew