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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. |
My Two Cylinder LeRoiBy Dorward Schleuter400 4th St. S.W. Watertown, South Dakota 57201 Several years ago I purchased an engine at an auction near Ipswitch, South Dakota that was listed on the sale bill as a two cylinder LeRoi. In its earlier day it powered a generator, and no doubt it was a very reliable light plant unit for many years. This summer I decided it was about time to try to restore this old engine as I had been walking around it in my garage long enough. When I removed the head from this engine I was surprised to see both pistons were on top. I turned the flywheel to watch both pistons go down at the same time. Now I knew I had to get this old engine running again! I had the valves ground, new valve guides installed, new rings, the radiator cleaned and repaired. The head had to be planed as it was warped. Nowhere was there any nameplate to identify the make of t... 792 of 1216 characters shown.
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