So I built a hydraulic pump today

[fhhhstix]

Good job with the pump. It may work just fine for a conversion. Hopefully your next attempt will produce more PSI but if not at least you can say you did it.


Travis

[RCP57]

Thanks, I got the motor and pump quite hot while trying to prime it before I decided to quickly make a tank that would gravity feed the pump. It only made 100 psi that way but when I took the misses out to the shop for a demo it had cooled down and went right up to 125 psi. I think I might be able to lap the two halfs of the body and reduce the end play in the gears but I'm not sure if it will gain much. I have one more pair of gears so now that I know that I can do it I may build on out of brass or steel. At least it wouldn't be as effected by heat soak then. At any rate it was a fun experiment(only because it kinda works) that cost less than $10 to build.

Reg