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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. |
I Even Bought A Mouse Nest With My Engine!By Charlie E. Ludlow,Box 52, Reading, Vermont 05062. I thought you might like to see a picture of my 1905 upright IHC, 4 HP. Before the purists howl, I know the muffler is wrong, as is the circulation pump and the ring around the head. However, it runs just fine! I had won an Associated Chore Boy in a raffle run by the Vermont Gas and Steam Engine Association. A real nice engine, but all done up and no work for me. So, I traded it plus $100 for the IHC in basket condition. It even had a mouse nest on the piston when I pulled the cracked head! Early on I belted the thing to my tractor P.T.O. and it started but there was almost zero compression. The rings were tissue thin and the fuel pump needed rebuilding. With that done, I went after piston rings and a 6' x 8' trailer for the shows. With new rings-.001 oversize- she ... 782 of 1284 characters shown.
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