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HELP NEEDED

By Larry G. Shulda

Route5,Box534G Waco, Texas 76705

Fairbanks-Morse Z, s/n 589372, with unidentified pump.

I have been collecting parts to put this display together for a long time. The engine is a Fairbanks-Morse Z, 1 HP, 500 RPM, the serial number is 589372. I got the engine from my Uncle" Edd Sterba in Republic County, Kansas, about twenty years ago. I grew up near his farm hearing this engine popping away pumping water for his livestock. One year the creek near his home flooded and silted in the well. He never used the engine again. I got it from him maybe about ten years later. It was rusted and stuck but all the parts were there except the gas tank and muffler.

After a lot of cleaning and some effort, I got it freed up. With some advice from a man at the Mankato, Kansas, engine show 1 got it timed and started. After that it spent several years in...

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