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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. |
"Second Chance" 7 HP Witte Runs Again!By Gil MangelsPres. Miracle of America Museum 58176 Highway 93 Poison, Montana 59860 Some GEM subscribers remember the story I submitted in the June 1998 issue about pulling the main part of a 1923 7 HP Witte engine out of Flathead Lake. It was in thirty feet of water and had been used as a buoy anchor for forty years. Fortunately, for some unknown reason, the flywheels, crank, rod and piston assembly, gas tank and oiler had been stored in the boat house. Some of you may have wondered if I ever got it going. Cylinder bore and babbitt bearings cleaned up pretty well after some forty years in Flathead Lake. Who would have thought that after forty some years in the lake, the Witte mag and carburetor would ever function again? I set the goal of having it running this year for the Miracle of America's annual Live History Days, the thi... 804 of 3382 characters shown.
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