Re: Manually operated Bijur Lubricating System

Posted by Marty or Marston On 2016/6/14 12:42:09

You don't mention how much of your current system is currently exist and in place (e.g. tubing still there, most of the fittings there), which makes it a little hard to describe what might need to happen to put it in working order. The actual system is pretty simple and does not take a lot of mechanical expertise to get it in working order or even for that matter to completely remake. If you are missing a lot of the nuts, compression sleeves, and metering units that don't work it won't be cheap. You can get the above mentioned hardware that you are missing from Bruce while 3/16" copper refrigeration tubing is available. All the tubing joints are soldered with soft solder like you would use on copper house plumbing. You might try Classic & Exotics to see if they can rebuild your pump if it is not working.

When I rebuilt my system, I removed all of the metering units that I had and soaked them in carburetor cleaner overnight and then blew solvent through them in the opposite direction of the normal flow to clear out any junk. I then flowed solvent through them in the corrected direction. If I couldn't get flow through them at that point I trashed them.

Do a search on this site for Bijur and you'll find a lot of post including diagrams that should prove you with enough info to determine how the copper tubing should be routed on the frame.

Again, is not difficult to do and anyone that is reasonably mechanically included should be able to perform the task.