Chapter 27: Assembling The First Car Diesel Engine
After Zhou Wenhua conducted preliminary exchanges and strengthened relationships with the two naval officers dispatched by the Navy Department, as well as the newly recruited security new recruits,
he also had butler Liu Xing entertain them well, and inquired with them whether they had purchased all the manufacturing parts and accessories for car engines and aircraft engines for him.
Because he planned to personally research and develop and manufacture the first car engine, as well as the aircraft engine, tomorrow, and over the next few days, manufacture the first car using a diesel engine, and the first imitation of Soviet aircraft.
The first car using a diesel engine, he intended to use at that time to stir up the entire domestic automotive sales industry.
While the first imitation of Soviet aircraft was just to find out the performance of the aircraft he imitated, and in the future, to give Zhou Weiguo’s side’s base an early chance to hone his aircraft manufacturing capabilities,
and also hoped that in the future, the pilots of the air force during the second Battle of Shanghai could sacrifice fewer lives, or have aircraft with better driving performance to shoot down Japanese pilots, defend domestic airspace, and make some contributions to domestic aircraft manufacturing technology in the future.
Of course, when donating to the Aviation Administration, he would not say that it was personally researched and developed by him, but would lie and say it was an engine purchased abroad through his relationships, then assembled by the Hongqiao Aviation Factory.
This was to protect himself,
Early the next morning,
Zhou Wenhua first went to the Jiangnan Shipyard, followed the chief engineer Ye Zaifu, whom he had already apprenticed to as master, to learn some basic shipbuilding beginner knowledge, and then left.
Then, he went to the China Shipyard, chatted with founder Yang Junsheng for a while, and followed the shipbuilding masters inside to learn some river ship manufacturing beginner knowledge, and visited their shipbuilding work.
Because Boss Yang had taken two new orders for river steamboats, the masters and technical workers in the shipyard were all busy working, so he also had the opportunity to personally experience and observe what others’ shipbuilding work was like.
Especially the work of each division department, and what it was like.
After he finished visiting, he bid farewell to Boss Yang and left the China Shipyard.
Next, he went to the Songhu Hongqiao Aviation Factory to exchange with the new factory director Fan Zhifei, telling him that he was trying to purchase aircraft engines from foreigners, and that they could probably be delivered to the aircraft factory in the next few days,
and then hand them over to them for assembly.
After handling these matters,
Zhou Wenhua also left the Hongqiao Aviation Factory, went back to find butler Liu Xing, and inquired whether all the aircraft engine and car engine parts he wanted had been purchased.
“Fourth Young Master! All the parts you want have been fully purchased!”
“They have all been delivered to the warehouse at home according to your request!”
Facing Zhou Wenhua’s inquiry, butler Liu Xing, who had already bought the parts and returned home waiting for Zhou Wenhua, immediately nodded and agreed.
“Good! I trust you to handle things!”
“Now continue to purchase more aircraft engine parts, car engine parts, including car assembly parts for me. If you can purchase parts for 500 to 600 cars, that would be even better!”
“Before our automotive production line is ready, and before our parts suppliers are stable, the more car parts inventory we have, the better!”
After hearing that butler Liu Xing had such high efficiency,
Zhou Wenhua was also very happy and continued to issue instructions.
“Yes! Fourth Young Master, I’ll go handle it right away!”
After receiving the instructions, butler Liu Xing did not complain about difficulties or that it was impossible,
but simply acted on orders.
Zhou Wenhua was very satisfied with this,
so he also walked into the warehouse and first checked the parts needed for assembling the diesel engine.
There were respectively: engine block cylinder liner, oil pan, cylinder head, piston connecting rod, flywheel crankshaft, transmission mechanism parts, oil filter, oil cooler, oil pipe, water pump, water pipe, fuel pipe, injector, instrument, radiator, supercharger, high-pressure oil pump, camshaft, starter, generator, intake pipe, exhaust pipe, air filter, oil pump, fan pulley parts, etc.
The parts for a diesel engine were still numerous,
so Zhou Wenhua admired butler Liu Xing’s efficiency even more.
After Zhou Wenhua checked that all the parts for the diesel engine he wanted were complete, he began to assemble and manufacture them.
Whether car engine or aircraft engine, they could not be considered successfully researched and developed just by producing the corresponding parts, because very high-precision assembly technology was still needed for assembly.
The reason was that there were many parts inside the engine, and they were very small, so without exquisite precision assembly technology, once disassembled, it would be very difficult to restore them.
Of course, if it was not individual assembly, but through mechanized automotive production line, it would be much simpler.
But now Zhou Wenhua was performing individual precision assembly technology alone for assembly.
So his work difficulty was also much higher than the specialized assembly line production in car factories.
After Zhou Wenhua spent more than two hours assembling and improving the diesel engine he wanted,
after wiping his oil-stained hands with a rag, he also revealed a satisfied brilliant smile.
He had finally successfully assembled the first car diesel engine.
As long as he assembled all the car parts, then his first diesel engine car could be unveiled.
