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RESTORATION OF AN F-M 2 HP

Jack-Of-All-Trades Engine

By Allen Shively

10400 Witt Lane La Vale, Maryland 21502

As some of you GEM readers might remember, the gas engine bug had bitten me with the restoration of my first "one lunger," a Hercules 3 HP that I wrote about in the December 1996 issue. This engine obviously led to the search for others.

This is the story about finding and restoring my F-M 2 HP "Jack-Of-All-Trades." I started asking everybody and anybody I could about the whereabouts of a "one lunger" that might be around the Cumberland area. I found out that nobody I had talked to even knew what a "one lunger" gas engine was, let alone know where one might be. Right away I realized that to find another engine to restore was not going to be very easy!

I started to just drive around the outskirts of town stopping along the way...

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