Goulds Pumps VIC - IOM User Manual
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If your
lineshaft
coupling
is...
Then...
5. Raise the sleeve until it covers the split ring.
6. Insert the key into the lineshaft.
7. Raise the sleeve to the top of the key.
8. Secure the sleeve to the split ring with a lock screw and lock wire.
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Lineshaft
2.
Sleeve
3.
Key
4.
Split ring
5.
Key
6.
Pump shaft
7.
Lock screw/lock wire
4. Attach the column to the bowl assembly:
a) Lower the column over the lineshaft, taking care as the shaft passes through the lineshaft bearing,
until the column flange engages the top-bowl flange register.
b) Attach a sling to the eyebolts and to the hoist hook.
c) Hoist the column section over the bowl assembly.
d) Lower the column over the lineshaft until the column flange engages the discharge-bowl flange
register.
e) Insert as many capscrews through both flanges as possible and gradually tighten them in
diametrically-opposite pairs.
5. Lift the bowl and column assembly high enough to allow for the removal of the I-beam supports.
6. Install and tighten the remaining capscrews.
7. Place the bowl and column assembly on the barrel flange:
a) Lift the entire assembly by the column pipe eyebolts and remove the supports.
b) Slowly lower the bowl and column assembly.
c) Place the supports on the barrel flange and continue to lower the assembly until the upper column
flange comes to rest on the supports.
8. If required, install the coupling and lineshaft to the protruding end of the lineshaft.
9. Assemble the next column section, or top column:
a) Make sure that the bottom-column register engages the top-column register.
b) Secure the columns with capscrews and hex nuts until all column and lineshaft sections required
for the proper pump setting are assembled.
c) Tighten the capscrews into the hex nuts gradually and uniformly.
Installation (Continued)
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