On a two stroke engine, the fuel pumps must be retimed when the engine is required to turn in the opposite direction (i.e. astern).
If one cylinder of the engine is considered (left), the piston is just before TDC with the engine running ahead and the crankshaft rotating clockwise. The piston is moving up towards TDC. The picture on the right shows the fuel cam at this point; where the cam follower is rising up the lift of the cam as it rotates clockwise. This point can be considered as the start of injection.
The fuel pump cam follower is moving up the rise of the cam on the delivery stroke. The cam is correctly in time with the engine
If, at this point the engine is stopped, and is started in the reverse direction (astern), the crankshaft now moves in an anticlockwise direction. Then the piston in this particular unit is now moving down the cylinder and is just after TDC. At this point fuel injection should have just finished. However, by studying the picture of the cam (right) it can be seen that the camshaft has reversed direction (because it is directly driven from the crankshaft), and is also rotating anticlockwise.
In the picture the follower is moving down the cam which means the fuel pump plunger is just finishing the suction stroke; i.e completely out of time with the engine.
Here the fuel pump cam is in the wrong position. When the piston is just after TDC, fuel delivery should have finished and the follower should be approaching the peak of the cam.
So that the Fuel Pump cam is timed correctly with the crankshaft when the engine is reversed, the fuel cams are rotated by a hydraulic servomotor which changes the position of the cams relative to the crankshaft. The angle through which the cams are turned is known as the Lost Motion angle.
Although this can be made to happen when the engine is still rotating, it is probably easier to think of the engine stopped as shown left and the camshaft moving as shown on the below. Once the fuel cams have moved, the engine can then start running in the reverse direction (anticlockwise).
Because the engine is started using compressed air admitted through the air start valves, the operating mechanism for these must also be retimed.
The angle that the cams move through is the lost motion angle.
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