My grandpa got this engine off some sort of tiller quite a while ago. He used it to drive a belt driven water pump to water his garden until 84 where he bought a new 2 inch pump. This engine was going to be used to make some sort of motorized cart or something of that nature and was stored in the old tool shed.
Anyhow i saw this engine a couple weeks ago when i was searching for some gear oil. Didnt do anything with it until i was hauling some stuff from teh shop to store in there. I decided it was time to look around in there. Found a old oil drum of some sort among other things. This engine interested me though. One of the older B&S engines i had seen around here. And by golly it wasn't stuck.
Upon inspection i found the fuel tank to be not rusty but shiney inside. Next i tested for spark. DIdnt get much of anything so i cleaned the magnet and replaced the coil using one off a few year old mower that we bent the crank shaft on. Sure enough it fit. I took a video of the results
I found it ran pretty good! So i thought about what i watned to do with it. Figured it was too neat to not play around with so i plan to mount it on my trailer with my LUC
Looked around online and managed to find decals as well. I decided i needed to paint it so i was working on that tonight. No idea what color it was before. looks like it might have been orange. i decided to go with IH red since i have plenty,
Before
After wirebrushing
Sorry this is not a very good picture of the painted parts. it was using my phone because i left the camera at home.
Ray, it must be the low humidity in Texas that saved the tank. Up here the humidity is so high, tanks sitting a few years are filled with scale and rust. You are a lucky young lad. Btw, looking good with the little guy, now if you can find a little corn grinder or something to mount on the trailer too.....
Ray, it must be the low humidity in Texas that saved the tank. Up here the humidity is so high, tanks sitting a few years are filled with scale and rust. You are a lucky young lad. Btw, looking good with the little guy, now if you can find a little corn grinder or something to mount on the trailer too.....
Thanks! It probably was that. I'm glad it did. I would like to have something for it to run. LUC could run that IHC sheller if i could mount a V belt on it and get the LUC to run
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Hello all,
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