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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
UNIQUE MAYTAGBy Andrew K. Mackey26 Mott Place, Rockaway Boro, NJ 07866 These are pictures of a unique water cooled Maytag Twin. Using a 1942 Maytag Twin basket case engine donated by Walter Borkstrom, I fabricated the cooling system out of copper plumbers' fittings. The system is of the thermosyphon type and the reservoir is good for about 3 hours steady running before a refill is necessary. The reservoir is 3" in diameter by 11" long, cylinder jackets are 3", "pressure sweat caps" anchored in place by a liberal amount of JB weld and the spark plug. Connections to the reservoir are ¼" tubing (copper). End caps on the reservoir are 3" "test caps", flywheel diameter 8" (old valve handles machined to fit the crank shaft), points by Wico and ignition by Kohler-2 spark coil. The governor is still operable, and the speed can also be set by changin... 808 of 1122 characters shown.
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