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Upgrades You Can Do Yourself: That Will Extend the Life of Your Engine
Why you should keep your Lincoln Pipeliner? First off, the design of the SA series machines goes back to 1939. Thousands have been produced over the years. In that time, we have learned its problems and promises. The basic design of the first machine is basically the same as that of the last machine produced. There have been many changes, but the basic DC exciter, rheostat control, and DC generator, with tapped series coils, are the same.
Why You Should Keep and Upgrade Your SA200-You Need too read this!
1. The machine is user-friendly. With the right attitude, you can save time and money. We will help you understand, upgrade, and repair your machine.
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2 They turn slowly 1500 RPM’S. Slow means less wear. Their reliability and maintainability are unsurpassed.
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3. There are upgrades that will increase the life of the engine. This engine was never designed to run on unleaded fuel and detergent oil. We can compensate when remanufacturing these engines. When they were manufactured, there were no computer-controlled machines; they were all cast, machined, and assembled by hand.
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4. Lincoln is walking away from these machines as fast as they can. The aftermarket has picked up the slack and is producing replacement parts that are far superior to the originals. Aluminum wiring, paper insulation, and insulating varnish are obsolete. Our updated plastic insulation and epoxy coating should last a lifetime.
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5. We want to help you make your Pipeliner® as reliable and long-lived as possible. Lincoln has obsoleted all the DC welders and is forcing them into inverter power supplies. It’s time to face reality-in my opinion, this is a disaster in the making. The Lincoln family does not control Lincoln Electric®. In my humble opinion, management today has no clue what the welder, distributor, and repair technician go through on a day-to-day basis.
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You purchase a machine with a thirty-six (36)- month warranty, which, in my opinion, is designed to be manufactured, not easily repaired.
These machines are extremely complicated, with electronic assemblies that cannot be repaired. They are manufactured to be unrepairable. What happens in the future, if your PC board fails, it cannot be repaired, and is obsolete and no longer available? What do you do when the technician says, your board is defective, cannot be repaired, and a new one is not available? What you have is a $30,000.00 boat anchor with a diesel engine!
The Fastest and Easiest Upgrades For Your SA200
The best replacement Air Filter for Your SA200 Pipeliner
The #1 reason Continental engines wear out (and have premature seal failures) is the oil bath air cleaner! There is a mythology that the oil bath air cleaner is the best in the world. After 65 years in this business, I have given up!
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The best replacement Oil Filter for Your SA200 Pipeliner
White Main Replacement Filter element,
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Blue Inner FILter (not shown) .
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You have to remember that the Continental came on the market somewhere in the late `1920's. It was originally designed as an automotive engine for car companies that could not produce their own engine. Engineering has advanced significantly in the last 96 years. ​​
It was designed in an era when detergent oil was unavailable and for burning leaded fuel. It will run fine on regular gasoline. The problem is the bypass oil filter system. A very small amount of oil is drawn from the "high pressure" port, passed through the filter, and then returned to the oil pan.
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The easiest upgrade for the Continental F-series engine is the Weldmart upgrade oil filter kit.
We have replaced the standard Wix 51050 (less than 1 quart) filter with a common GM Two-quart filter. GM: 51794r, Wix 5179, or PH-373. A standard GM 1 quart will fit.
This increases your oil system by one quart; the 2-quart oil filter hangs vertically in the air blower.
The adapter bolts directly in place for the original filter bracket, it comes complete with Stainless steel flex hoses,
You can buy replacement filters here
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