The 1899 Locomobile Steam Car Replica, known as the Lykamobile is a full scale live steam automobile manufactured in 24 kits. This kit is available from a company called "Steam Traction World" located in Daventry, United Kingdom. Each kit is to be manufactured and sent once a month for 24 months. However for cost considerations I have chosen to have my kits batched and dispatched in larger crates to the United States (Topsail Beach, NC).

Specifications:
• Length 7ft 2.6in • Height 5ft 3in • Width 4ft 7.1in • Weight 904 lbs.• Water Tank Capacity 12 Gallons • Fuel Tank Capacity 7.3 Gallons

Construction:

• CHASSIS Tubular steel fabrication, combination weld, bolted and silver solder.
• STEERING “Ackerman” design tiller steering.
• DIFFERENTIAL & DRIVE Spur gear differential similar to the original Locomobile, drive shaft and bearings.
• WHEELS & TYRES Single tube pneumatic, treaded.
• BREAKING SYSTEM Disc brake system.
• ENGINE 21/4" diameter, 3" stroke modified “Hackworth” valve gear.
• WATER FEED Twin mechanical pump.
• BURNER Fuelled by diesel.
• BOILER Multi Fire Tube, fully constructed and complete with necessary paperwork and inspected by notified body.
• BODYWORK & SEATS Wooden with steel frame, seating capacity of 2 persons, with turned decorative spindles with leather style upholstery.
• Gears: forward and reverse.
• Assemble with hand-tools only
• Step-by-step instructions
• Technical service and help-line backup
• Designed on ‘Solidworks’ CAD
• Manufactured on modern CNC machines for build accuracy and high quality


Friday, June 19, 2020

Lyka Kit #20 Burner Test Firing

Just a quick posting. Today I purchased some diesel fuel and put in about 2 gallons for testing. The Tank is supposed to hold 6 gallons, but no need to fill it up now. The setup directions for the burner state for a number 2 -  60 degree nozzle the damper needs to be set at the #5 position. I'm assuming I have a number 2 nozzle because there was an empty plastic tube in the kit box marked with #2-60 degrees. The Steam Traction World directions make no mention of this fact. Setting the damper is simple enough, the images below are self explanatory.


The next challenge was priming the fuel lines. I first tried to rely on the burner vacuum pump, but the system kept on cutting out thinking there was no fuel - which there wasn't. I could see this would take quite a bit of time if you kept on resetting the system so I decided to prime things the old fashion way. I took the fuel filter apart and poured some diesel into it, then took off the fuel line at the burner and siphoned by mouth the line - don't care much for the taste of diesel ! But that did the trick, tighten everything back up and fired the burner off. Below is a movie showing the operation. A fair amount of oil residue from the parts started to burn off. I think it needs a few more firings to clean everything up.
 

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