Tekkit Combustion Engine cooling with auto shutoff

Keeping your combustion engines cool is the #1 top priority when running them, there are several ways to go about doing this and several good posts online that describe how to make sure they are supplied with water. Some are simple setups with a pump hooked directly to the engine constantly pumping the water in, others are more advanced setups with "or" gates and other ways to tell when the engine is getting water or not.

I originally had the engine hooked up to an Aqueous Accumulator pumping directly into the engine and this seemed to work well but I noticed that when I turned my back the engine would heat up. Especially if i ventured out a few chunks from the engine.



I later found out this is a some sort of bug where the water doesn't spawn correctly  in chunks that the player is not in, and chunk loaders don't seem to fix this. Putting a extra tank between the aqueous accumulator or pump helps to fix the bug but there is still the risk that the engine could use up the water faster then it gets it. The solution is to either constantly monitor your engine or risk it exploding unless you have some sort of fail safe device to monitor and shut it down for you.

When you are first starting out in tekkit it is sometimes difficult to find useful information due to the nature of the mod and the amount of different mod packs, versions, custom mod packs, and updates that each mod has. It is also difficult to construct the more complicated methods that a lot of posts talk about, mainly because you need to have a lot of machinery and resources to be able to build them.

This leads me to the dilemma I had and through trial and error and a lot of digging online I came up with a working solution that is not too resource hungry, it is simple cheap, and best of all it will keep your engines from exploding.

The basic materials you will need will be:

• 1x combustion engine 
• 1x redstone engine
• water source and a pump "and redstone engines to power it"  or aqueous accumulator
• 1x lever
• wooden waterproof pipe
• waterproof pipe " I prefer the golden pipe, if you can swing it just because it works so much faster and this way later on down the line you wont have to replace it when you add on to the system. But any type will do ex. cobblestone, stone....."
• 1 or 2 Tanks "more is better"
• wooden conductive pipe
• Conductive pipe "again I highly recommend going with the golden pipe from the start but stone or cobblestone pipes will work until you can upgrade if gold is hard to come by "
• 1 redstone waterproof pipe

You will need several sections of the pipe depending on your set up but that shouldn't be to hard to plan out and pipe is cheap.

The way this system works is that the combustion engine is powered by the redstone waterproof pipe which is also supplying it the water. So if the water runs dry in that pipe it automatically shuts off the redstone signal to the engine and prevents the engine from exploding. 

So to start out place your combustion engine and then connect the redstone waterproof pipe to it. "it can connect to the 4 sides or the back depending on your layout"

Be sure to have at least 1 pipe in between the wooden pipe and the redstone pipe to prevent them from interfering with each other

Then you will want to connect the water supply, which can be any way you want to get the water to the engine I am going to pump it from a storage tank. " It is a good idea to put a tank in between the pump and the engine and then pump from the tank to prevent water spawning bugs/glitches and also to easily keep an eye on the water level. Incase your source might run dry or anything else"

Power the wooden waterproof pipe with a redstone engine and a leaver this is how you will turn on and off both the redstone engine and the combustion engine. "Please note: it will take a few seconds for the combustion engine to fire up while it primes the pipe. This is good because it gives the redstone engine some time to warm up. It will also still run for a little bit after you turn it off until it drains the pipe enough to stop the redstone signal."

And finally connect the tank to your water source and the combustion engine to your power grid "remember to use a wooden conductive pipe to pull the power out of the engine then I recommend using golden conductive pipe to run to your machinery." 

Let the tank fill up then flip the leaver on the redstone engine give it a few seconds to prime the pipe and your combustion engine should fire up "also make sure to put some lava, fuel, or oil in it first"

Here is a quick little youtube video I made to show you all how to do this.

Thanks for checking this out and let me know what you guys think