🚀 go-pugleaf

 On Saturdays my wife and I do Garage sales, and at one I picked up, all in
pieces but apparently in good condition, a diesel engine that came off a
4 KW genset with the idea of using it to charge batteries at  our Off Grid
  Ham Radio repeatersite.

It  is a LISTER 303 SR1.17 6HP at 1800 RPM, Single cylinder diesel engine
and I would like to find a (hopefully used) starter and ring gear, critical
components for a remote start application. The engine is very similar in
appearance to the Lister LV1, that I found information on in a Google
search.

Vintage about 1970-1974 ?

The starter for this genset application was probably  built into the 4KW
generator body itself. The flywheel cover has a starter drive boss and one
of my  Google search hits referred to an optional reduction drive starter
for the LV1-- probably made by Lucas (now Prestolite) in England.

There is also a possibility I could shrink fit another brand of ring gear
around the flywheel and make an adapter plate on the starter drive boss to
match, accept and engage a typical North American starter and drive but
that's obviously not my first choice.

Is anyone out there familiar with the SR1?
Does anyone out there have a serviceable ring gear and starter for sale?
What are the differences between an SR1 and a LV1?
Is a preheater commonly used for these engines?

                                                   Thanks,
Spud, in Mission BC Canada. V2V4C5
 Hamradio: VE7IFD,
Mission Search & Rescue #31