Foreign. hey guys, how's it going I Went to a swap meet. uh it's called Rice-a-rama in Spencer Mass Last weekend and was there looking for old motorcycles. Did not find any but I came across this.

This is a Maytag for like a washing machine. it would sit on your front porch and it would run a washing machine back for houses that had no power. I don't know. 20s 30s right around that vintage.

SO The back story on it was the guy said he had it running. he was at the show and then it died on them. They thought I was out of fuel. they put more fuel on it and it still would not run.

So I bought it in a no run condition I thought it was pretty cool looking I always wanted to go screw around with one of these so I figured it is our opportunity. A little label on right there I believe it's the original paint too. he said he did it the carburetor on it I really wouldn't call it carburetor. it's more of a mixer because it doesn't have any throttle to it.

you just I think it's just kind of set up to run at one. RPM So I figured let's um, try to figure out what happened to it. hopefully try to get it running again and or we're going to take it apart and see how it functions. I Was kind of thinking in the back of my head too if we could possibly maybe put a carburetor on it and have it run like with a throttle and then if that works, you know, go on from there and use it for something in another project.

But let's get ahead of ourselves. All right, let's go get set up, get you on a stand, and uh, let's see what we got. So I shut it on a um you want to call Lazy Susan It's a turntable for a microwave. It's in a free pile.

so I figured we can kind of rotate it and get a better look at it. What it's got. so it's air cooled two-stroke The fan blows the air across the cylinder. keep it cool.

this is the exhaust coming out of it I Got an exhaust system also that came with it. I Guess that's uh, harder to find than the actual engines themselves. It's got a Kickstart I said this lever is coming down. it's got like a little cam.

get you out of the way there step on your foot, got like a little cam lever in there that kicks it over and then ratchets back afterwards. so lock the gear in there locks. One Direction okay free. Spin going the other direction I Guess this is the air intake.

This is the mixer and for killing it you pull this shows up. It's got a rod that goes across, it's got a tab and it just kind of grounds out to the spark plug and that's the shorts it out a lot of the old engines used to have. You did it with your finger if if you missed you kind of Zapped yourself uh, fuel tank is down in here I Don't know if it uses because it's got premix in it I don't know if it actually uses any of the fuel in the tank here I don't know if this is open to the crankcase or if it's sealed off it's a separate unit I just don't have an answer for that. Maybe we'll find that out and I would guess the Magneto and everything is going to be underneath this cover and underneath this flywheel.

I think this is the output side too. Whatever it would go to run would run off of this section of uh, the crank. Yeah, because the other side's closed up. They got nothing over there.

so decal pretty much says you know, don't use it indoors I think for obvious reasons and I think it's got a gas mix on it I think it says 16 to one I saw on it like I said I've never screwed with one of these before so you and I are gonna go have fun and learn together. Uh, let's go see if we you know lost spark and all that kind of stuff or start working our way down. Let's get the plug out of it and uh, we'll kick it over and we'll see if it's got any. Spark How's that light help us hurt us? Our wire off of there right tool for the right job.

I Think they made other things that this would run other than a washing machine I think the one was like a light spasm out. Let me change the light out. Let's try that. they made a Um ice cream maker and I think they actually started using them for you know, probably whatever else you can kind of go run to like.

I would think maybe if I could work grinding green. see if you can set that on there without uh, touching it. Obvious reasons let's kill that. she's a little clunky, huh? it's got Spark Do you want to try just dribbling a little bit of fuel in it? Give her a couple of kicks and see if it'll fire off first.

Let's give it a shot. Let's give her a little bit of that plug back in and I want to probably take it off that Lazy Susan Huh I would climb up on a bench and give her a couple of kicks. It's gonna be slippery enough as it is. It's got a little valve down here.

it says open and closed and my guess is that you know maybe it's like open is more fuel I Don't know. It's more fuel, more air. At some point we'll take this apart and find out we'll just leave it. Let's go straight up and down.

let's see what happens. You get to run. We'll try to favor one way or the other and see which way it performs better. Let's give her a kick.

Hold on to the ceiling. Foreign stuff out the exhaust. Let's try flipping that valve one way or another. Yeah, it's definitely pissing.

Um, it's like dirty oil fuel out of the exhaust pipe. I Know I Sprayed some in there, but we'll try a couple more times. It seems like it's starting to blow a little bit of smoke out. Nope.

I Think whatever his issue is is actually too much fuel. Let me pull it back. You see the puddle? it's pissing out. That's a lot.

I did not put that much I Just put a little bit of squirt in there and that's definitely looking like pretty nasty stuff, huh? All right, you want to fire up right away, did you? What fun would that be? Let's get this carb set up off of here. We'll get a better idea what's going on inside there. Yeah. I Don't know if they actually consider these a hit and miss or not.

I Want to say yes, Hit misses it. It fires when it drops below a certain RPM and when it's above a certain RPM it just doesn't fire off I Don't know if it kills spark I would think that's what it would do and then like, once the spark gets over a certain RPM spark goes away. it's down below that it starts parking again. All right.

judgment by these screws. This thing's been apart a few times in this life. I'm not sure where the serial number is too. We could probably look up what year it is.

So I'm talking about the screws. How how many times that's been apart? Look at that out of there. Well, that was fuel running out of the crankcase. That was a lot of fuel that was in there and a gasket.

Yeah, let's not break anything. Looks like it's all one piece. Timing is everything right. Wait for that to shut off.

We'll take a peek inside. There, we're going in. What is that thing sitting down there to something? huh? Well, it's like a hunk of silicone. Or there's another.

some more. TV sitting on the side there, the bottom of the Piston it's connecting rod. Let's um, if you can rotate that so that the crank is facing us, come on. I should take the Plick out of it.

Yeah, look at the plug out of it so it rolls easier. There we go. go for uh, something like that for light might be better. Definitely looks like it's uh, hello on the hot side.

huh? like crank looks like it's um, a little on the um, like Rusty and burned offside. Plus, whatever that that booger is that's laying down, let's go fish that out real quick. Oh I think I just dropped it into the tank. Well, it's in there if we want it and it's got more behind there So that whole thing you've been seeing right now, you can see how much is sitting on the bottom there, how much fuel right in down there? It's like a ton of fuel in there.

I'm not sure if that should be like that. It seems like it's definitely over what it should be. Let's not tilt it back towards us a little bit and we'll let that piss out back into the tank. I Think we got to drain that tank too.

That tank looks, uh, pretty muddy. I See like bits and pieces of junk sitting on the bottom down there. but it's got a dream. I'm guessing that's the feel for it.

Hmm, let's go lift that up. see what we get. Whoops coming out all the way out of the tank. Go drain that fuel tank.

Stop making a mess with it. You can see it's got a little drain belt right there so you can get that to loose. It's tight. Let me get a wrench or something on that I Want to roll off the edges.

hadn't been apart in a while, Huh? Well I was hoping it was like quarter inch and I could put like a quarter inch extension on it. but I think the the edges are so beat up that we can't I got a seven millimeter wrench. Seems close. let's uh, the crack gonna fight us and it may take a little angle grinder try to clean up.

It's like the the edges are all kind of rolled off on it. I would think that would be what we need to get on there and then we can. kind of. you know Yank on this thing.

instead of trying to beat up that plug so much, let me go pick away. I wonder actually can we flip it up on end? Maybe we'll do that. We'll just we'll flip the whole thing up on in. We'll try to come out with this plug.

right? here should be the fill. So yes, just do that for now. Then when it's up in the air, we could probably work on that plug. That's what kind of messy we can make.

So I dropped the whole thing on the floor. Oh come on, yeah, didn't make a mess at all. huh? It's like reading Off the Bench a lot of dirt in it I'm sure that didn't help things out. I'm gonna.

uh, let's set it on its side now. let's even get that plug out of it. I like to really rinse that tank out was in there. Oh, you would think that would be like pre-mixed but that's kind of looking like that bolt was clean.

Yeah, I might mess it up. Hey, let's get it on outside. Get that drain plug out of it. Apparently a little bit of water in it too.

Let me go wipe this stuff up. That's a little easier to get to. Let's see if I don't want to hit it with a grinder for obvious reasons I've only kick Sparks around. Let's see if we can just like drive an extension on it.

it's going about halfway. We'll go with that. Let's get a wrench on here. see if we can get this thing to spin out of there.

Need a longer quarter inch wrenches? I don't know what let go I think was the wrench just popped? I'm gonna see if I got like an eight-point socket. that's that tiny we can get on. I mean you didn't give it a a good pop to get it free. So little things that get you right there it goes.

That was easy. All right. I'm gonna lay it back down. We'll let this whatever sludges in it try to pop out of it I threw the plug back in there so I'm flipping it over.

It's not pissing everywhere. nothing I wonder if we could like rinse it with something. Hmm I'm gonna go peek in that tank real quick. These bore lights are a little less intrusive I think we got I don't know where that booger went either.

and I think that fell out of the inside of the engine and something like some kind of mud right there. There's there's our booger. it's falling apart on me. Okay, down the VAR I'm gonna try getting it with a little claw and I'll take that out of there.

Let's go see what we look and the rest of it. Yeah, some kind of crap up in there too and we get some more. so maybe with silicone crazy with it. Another big booger of that up in the front come to me.

No, it's that actual piece of something you think that is I wonder if that's like on to the base of the carburetor. it fell off and then it just caused it to get really rich. Let's go take a peek on the carb. let's go see what else is in there.

Was that the piece that I was seeing looks like a big piece of crud? Yeah, we should probably maybe unbolt it. Let me. uh, trying to get without probably just gonna Crush when I go to get it. There we go.

What's that? Maybe old gasket? Yeah, it's crumbling apart now. Damn is that it. Let's go look on the base of that carburetor. see if that's where that fell off of.

That would kind of make sense, wouldn't it? So here's the base of that carb. I Don't know. You think that's another one of probably another one of those, Huh? Maybe like an old one. Is that on thread, huh? It comes with spare parts.

So I would say this. it's just one of those that was left behind. This one must have rebuilt it I found a part I lost a part or didn't realize where it was. Maybe it was running it and it fell off inside the tank and it wasn't running right.

And then somebody went and bought a carb kit because this definitely looks clean, doesn't it? And that gasket wasn't so bad. Uh I don't know. You want to take this apart, Try to figure out what's in it. Let's go do that.

Go on the bench. All right. let's go see what makes this thing tick. It's got a little tab bent over here.

What's up seem like it's doing very much? Is that hand tight? Yeah. I See a uh set screw there? Let's go pop that out again. It's like they call it a mixer, not a carburetor because it doesn't adjust. You could adjust the air fuel mix I think but you don't adjust the RPMs with it.

I Don't see anything. Let's get a wrench for that. Yeah, get a little wrench on there. All right guys.

everything's gonna be in it. I think I'm like a big jet in. the little holes on the side of it. might be just like an access plug allowing you to spring in there.

put that back like it was. Carry out of that, let's see what this thing does. Oh, which way was that that was facing us right? Yeah, so I'm gonna say that does something like that. Anything else? What was that set screw doing whole mat assembly in there? Hey, what does this do? I think because I threaded earlier right? Take that.

out. Sounds like there's something in there. Probably like a check ball or something and that just looks like a brass insert. Well that pops out of there or not and it's even necessary to do so.

I See a little hole running to the side there. but I see a lot of crap too. Feel the dirt that's in it. This is probably set up.

We should probably just count. like how many threads. There's gotta be a window that it works right? because it when it was on the machine, you're only allowed. It only had the capacity of turning it from there to there.

So let's go inward. We're gonna go count it. one one turn. All right.

let's get rid of it. Hell yeah. I Thought the nuts are spinning on top. That's a joke there.

Yeesh. Yeah, so that should be the fuel metering. but like I said I think we were getting too much fuel? I don't know if there's any other. Let's go take that apart and um, something's in there moving around.

I Think we could probably get maybe two of these on there. Let me go go grab another pair of these. All right. Three clicks.

I'm gonna go. three clicks. Anything is in there I'm gonna go like a check ball. Something's got to stop it from draining out right? It's like a a diaphragm, just like a little flat plate with a notch in it.

And what would that do normally so so it would sit on it like that. look at the dirt that's on it. It would sit on it like that it would draw fuel up and then when the pulse went away it would block the passage back off again. So my guess is that's what it does I don't know why it's got that little a little cutout in it.

she is like a letter d Hey, anything else you want to take apart and what's this kind of the same idea but lower. so this me for air What would. So if that was like that, what passage is that opening up? Yeah, it's got a bunch of crap on it too, huh? So let's just clean this stuff up. we will put it back together.

I See um I don't know what that hole is there I don't know if it draws it through the center I would think so I'm gonna go, that's got a lot of mud in it I'm gonna go blow through that and see if it comes out of here. Yes, it does. all right. So I'm gonna go rinse all this stuff, clean it and as far as the gasket tank is concerned, gotta watch I made that mistake once before I think I used like um, acetone or something and oh, lacquer thinner and I guess it was like a paint inside the gas tank and I took it all off.

but the paint was the seal the casting because it's very porous. It's cast iron. So all right let's go rinse that out and see if anything happens. So how would the engine get air? My guess is that's got to be the air intake right? This is drawing fuel up and this this space go into the combustion chamber and it draws an air fuel mix through this tube for this one behind it and it kind of mixes with it.

Let's go take a look on the engine. Yeah so it looks like this all gets sealed off. so this is on there and that just looks like this is this hole. just looks like it's accessed to grab the rod bolts on it and then this would be the intake through the bottom.

Port right? and then you just that lever that we saw just kind of made the mixture rich and lean to get it go. Hmm if we wanted to put a carburetor on it afterwards, maybe I wonder if we can, um, make a play? What if we just use this? if we seal it all off? put a carburetor on this and we're getting ahead of ourselves. but let's just put it back together. We see what we get, see if it'll run and be nice to go from you know, a running condition and then try to go play with it.

But let's just see if we're going to do what she's supposed to do first. Yeah, put it back together. I Believe that valve that we just put in I Think that's for air. It's like a check valve for air for first version of like a read valve.

So it has like because this is the air chamber. this is all the intake that comes in and the only thing that's there is this little spring-loaded plunger. and that's the passage. Here's the air intake coming in and going into the engine and then it has this like valve and seat that run against each other and that, come on fumble fingers and that just makes like a little doorway down inside there with a plunger.

Probably every time the the piston goes up, creates a vacuum under the crankcase and draws the charge of air and fuel up through here. and then this dips down into the fuel tank, sips up whatever amount of fuel. I Guess I'm not threading that sips up. However, amount of fuel.

Let me go take this out. Maybe he's running into it. That should have maybe not been first. and then we meter that.

There it goes. Put a hole in the side of that. no, just threads putting it in the right hole. There's your problem.

those in that one. I Know somebody was yelling at me right now. So what does that one do then? Because that's not high enough to suck. Drop anything I Don't know.

Would you mix air? What would you mix and we went all the way and back. one turn right so locks up there and then back one. so that's drawing fuel up this I wonder if it's kind of like mixing air in fuel between those two ports and then we hit the set screw I think that set screw just held that Barrel the higher up part of the air intake just locked that Barrel into place I wonder if that's adjustable too if we're able to move that Barrel up and down on the air intake. So I'm gonna go through wrenches on this stuff and we'll tighten everything back up.

I'm not going to bend that tab over yet. We'll leave this the way it is and um, we'll see if it works for us I Have a feeling it might be in here again. All right, let's go throw this back on the machine. Uh I gotta mix up some fuel we need.

um 16-1 I think was what we're supposed to do and that's just gonna use like a regular motor oil is what they did back then so we'll give that a shot. I don't know how we're well, we're gonna be able to see inside there, but getting ready to put it back together and I'm looking. So this is the bottom of the crankcase. You get an air fuel mix inside here.

As the Piston comes down, it pushes the air fuel mix to the top of the combustion chamber through some valves through this passage that somebody has really gone crazy with the silicone. The passages have to lock it off with that. Besides, let's get that those boogers out of there. I'm just not helping things neither.

Let's Get Enough Restriction as it is, we get it. might be better with like a hook. Come on there we go. All right bits of it.

I don't want to knock it forward in there. Now you get the idea. I think I want to get. you guys are standing where I need to be I know you want to see.

but okay. I'm gonna have to get in there I can get there behind you with a hook and pull that last booger towards us. kind of clean up that port a little bit. Yeah they went crazy with that stuff.

It's everywhere. Come to me. I'm down with it and piss and I'll blow that out. Get that last little hunk on that side off too.

Oh, he's got damaged anything. but definitely. uh, a bit of a restriction. I'm gonna go tip it up on the tent.

I'm gonna take an air gun. We'll just kind of blow out inside here. try to get it out. we're gonna get like a turkey baster in there or something.

Drop that last little bit of crud. Yeah, it's a piece that we saw in the combustion chamber. the bottom of the crank. That was not that piece of metal that we saw and definitely, um, has more boogers to be found.

It was just right there. That's over there. It's more of that crap. a big chunk right there.

Death by RTV See ya. But wait, there's more. What is that? What was that Plugging up a bowl? It's got threads on it so it must have been like in a bolt hole and they ran the bolt in. it sealed it up.

Wait, there's more get that keeps on giving and there's more. I got one? Broken Hat I think it was more on it I think that was, um, what's sealing around the outside of the case that's squeezed into the inside. Who needs gaskets? Hopefully is the last of it still connected? Problem is: I don't think this stuff is, uh, fuel soluble. so it's probably the gas that's hitting it and causing it to break up.

That's my guess. What's that? Nope. Still more digging for worms? Yes. I'm wondering why we took the drain plug out.

Nothing came out because the hole completely clogged with that. There it goes. It just broke through. Yeah.

That's why nothing came out of the drain hole. Yeah. I'm gonna figure this thing's been sitting around for 90 years. I Guess your holes get a little, your arteries get a little plugged up.

huh? I'm gonna have to go rinse that out because all that rust and crud I just pushed in there. Um I'm interested to use that gasoline. Maybe I'll try to like rinse it with gas. Okay I think they have like a paint or something on the inside of the ports of the uh, the porciness of the metal.

So I'm gonna blow that out with compressed air again and then try to rinse that out with some fuel and then we'll put some fresh fuel on it and try it. I blew it out Every Which Way Left right up down. A bunch of the crap came out of it like clear silicone. not just the uh, the orange stuff we've been seeing.

Two of them are copper, two of them are steel I'm not quite sure if the placement's correct, but two more different and 16 -1 So got 16 ounces of gas, one ounce of 30 weight motor oil. Let's go throw that in there. Doesn't make it look any different, huh? Well I like the stuff now. it's got coloring in it so you can kind of tell.

but I know we are now. we are right on the money. Let's go throw that in there, give her some kicks, see what happens? I was gonna mix it in the engine but I'll say you know what? I'm gonna end up spilling half of it if I do that I won't know what my mix is. See how this works here we? it's a dream plugin I don't know how much that crankcase holds.

Let's go check. it might take the whole thing that way. I can't see it doesn't have enough in it. Now if I didn't do that I would have spilled it all over the place.

Go through that. that plugs out a little vent in it too. the fill plug. a little hole in the center of just so it can kind of breathe.

and I'm gonna go dry up the bench, get all the crap off it and fuel off of it and we'll give her a couple of kicks. see if it does anything, let's give another shot, see what it does. but I got that bow straight up and down again. I'm not quite sure where it's supposed to be so foreign.

Gonna Stand let's grab like a welding glove, put it on, see how much rag we can put on it. You guys wasn't supposed to do with it in the uh, closed position. it's where it is I Tried switching it over to open and it started breaking up but it's kicking out a lot of. Fire I'm hoping that the Rings aren't burning up.

You let it run like that a little bit. you can see if that clears up these little Sparks gonna come out of it. Can you go turn the fan on too? Give me that tab over a little. Here we go.

Oh, it's actually terribly hot. It seems like it's doing like what it should be. We're gonna go outside for a little bit. I'm gonna open a door.

let's Place air out I Got an exhaust fan running behind me. hey, you know what? I forgot they said came with a muffler bolt that up. We'll fire it up. let's see how much quieter it is I Think the idea was like if you're running on your porch, you would just kind of extend this part of it outside.

That's all it is for a muffler. It's just a two halves of a shelf and I guess it's allowed to go puff out of that those little cuts that are in it. Let's go shove that on there, see what happens and we need a couple of bolts. No I didn't think we're in a lower level Maybe these it might be the next size up.

Let's go try these. I think it's bigger though. Yeah, next size up. do I have the next size up.

Hmm. I'll have them somewhere. Those even got the right kind of like top wounds I Hope they'll be long enough. foreign.

We got three threads good enough. Get that bolted on I'm gonna bring that lever straight up I don't know if it needs it or not. Let's go see what happens. I may go to where it was running all right of course.

Started on the first shot four. Try it! I Hope we can hook up to a drill and spin it on the nut. Make sure the nut threads on the right way that it's not, um, it'll stay tight kind of thing if we go drill in a socket. uh.

I don't know if it flooded itself out again. It's the mouse nest in the in there and it can't come out. See what the plug looks like? It's pretty dry. I would just got no fuel than too much.

how would you prime it then I'm gonna try dribbling a little bit of fuel down the the chamber and we'll leave it so you can be like that was richer. So we'll leave it like that. Put a dribble a little bit of fuel in it, see what happens? You probably need to build a little fuel in there. Go foreign.

I Hope that wasn't the Rings and stuff that were breaking up all those uh, those little like carbon things that were flying out. Let's go give it a shot in the ass. In right there. it's your little drill action.

See if there's enough kick to make it go. Come fast again. Did seem to do it the first time because it's now pissing all that stuff out of there. The Mufflers Let's get the muffler off of there.

Here's an issue, but it's definitely bleeding out all over again. We could have issues that are going on inside there too, like the Rings were falling apart or something. Let's clear it out. Plugs damp I Wouldn't say it's soaked, but it does seem Like the muffler's putting a lot of stuff out.

I Can see the uh, the Mist coming out. It looks like it's a fairly decent air if you want to take a torch, burn off that plug. Kind of wonder if there's a starting procedure that I'm just not catching. The only thing it has is that that rich that needle mix that says close and open.

Try it again. let's go leave it. I think clothes was leaner. Let's go leave it at that.

Can you see you got a good eyeball? There you go. Good we're pouring out and thank you. You better she said Bring It On One well that matters. a piece of junk.

Okay I gotta put batteries on my uh, my shopping list. Thank you. We'll be back down. We'll put a glove on and try sewing it down.

Foreign I Think that Jets off a little bit I wonder if we could loosen that up and turn that so we can get it in a little further I think we just can't pinch off the fuel enough and it's flooding itself up. So I see it's got like a it's like a gym nut here I wonder if we could loosen this up I Don't know if that that's keyed to it or not or if it's just you know, plopped around. Let's go throw some pliers on that see what happens. So let's leave that loose.

Actually, just take it right off. Yeah I don't see any key or anything to it. Let's um, and then we can adjust it. when we find it runs best you might guess.

So I can leave it right there. We'll try to fire it up again and we'll keep tweaking this so it runs really smooth and we'll make that a closed position on it now. Well, it's going to start up for us again. It's gonna do with the drill already.

Sounds better. Foreign. It takes a second for it to make change. Oh, that seems pretty good right there.

Foreign. Feels like he's making more power there too. Oh right there. Yeah, right there.

foreign. That's the magic spot. It's not too bad. Gonna go play with a little bit and get her tweaked.

So was it like that? It wasn't like that I think it was like that, right? So we'll Crank that down right where it is. Yeah I think it's open and closed for fuel I think it lets more or less fuel in. Did you do my other wrench? I saw you report. part's not to let the inside one turn all right I thought Muppet does very much.

Yeah right there at the sweet spot. Yeah. I think we were originally just getting too much fuel and it was screwing it up. It'll let us air out a little bit.

He's right. What do you want to do next? We're gonna maybe pull off that fly. We'll just kind of get an idea. How like the The Governor setup Works in it? Yeah, we'll let it air out and maybe we'll go play with that.

Yeah, I'm still clearing the air out. Let's um, hit that with an impact, see if that'll come off of there. And my guess is you should probably flip that over. I Think it's on a tapered shaft so you gotta get like some kind of pry bar behind it.

Get a little bit of pressure on it and we'll give it a whack with like a brass. Mallet Is that gonna go on there? Yeah and try to get it. So I don't smack the end of the threads is it? Loose No, that'd be good. Let's give that a whack with a pry bar behind it.

I Don't know if we can get a puller. should have kind of went to get a puller on these. three bolts should be all I told me that was just a taper on it I Don't know if we need, um, not much to pry on. I was pushing between here and here.

it'll work out a little bit. Let's see what we got. So I'm betting that is probably the Governor right there and you can adjust it by those screws. You go shut that fan off.

We'll go set it down, take a better peek at what we got. Big ass coil isn't it? Yeah, it's a points adjustment. Looks like you gotta adjust the points when the um. flywheels on it because the cam, he's uh, on the flywheel, not on here.

Let's run on that right there. Yeah, let's close the points. That coil is huge Besides that. besides that thing we got here, yeah, so this is I Think the outside lip of this is what opens and closes it and we think this is either when it revs so it's got a spring on it and as the RPMs increase it opens that up.

What does it touch to hold the points closed? Maybe or open when it goes around. It's hard to say so this is the cam this is. There is no cam on here. This is the cam right here holds it.

It fires the points every time it goes around and then what it must do after you get to a certain RPM. This gets centrifugal force, forces it to the outside and that right here. no longer ever opens the cam anymore. So that's how it operates and this must be your point gap right here.

This one. This this fixed one with the jam nut on it so that must be you know at idle you turn that around until that sets the gap of your points and then your point gap closes up with this and then if you adjust, this should be your Governor RPM So the more part of the more tension, let's see how that work. Yeah the more tension that's on this spring, the higher the RPMs would be. Is that just like a thumbnail, a thumb screw or do you have to loosen something? yeah I think you just turn it I think you have to lift it up.

it's got like a little a little cam walk in it I don't know if you can see the the V right there trying to do this one holding the camera. It's got a little you can see right, a little notch in it that holds it into place. Kind of makes sense I also be running to be a adjust adjusting itself. So I think we can figure out what year it is I think it said inside the flywheel I don't know if that number is that the same number as as that one.

What is that? Seven seven three seven five seven seven three seven six yeah one number apart I don't know. oh that's a cover, that's why that might be a part number. Is there anywhere else on here that has a um see one? So let's type FY Ed4 I wonder if that's didn't know what the year I think they made these I think the last year was like 1937. on them I don't know if that's a number or part number inspected by number one.

Hey let me go see if I can go look up uh part numbers on this. he's been a part of four two. You see the screws are egged out somewhat. It's actually on the outside of the flywheel right right there and that makes it I think it was March 77637 Yeah, February Nope.

Seven one, two, seven six March of 37th. so it's towards the end of the run I think that's the end of it right there picture of the that's a twin All right I'm gonna go with uh saying that that 1937. I was hoping it would say like my T24 we could call it 100 years old but still pretty old. Funky setup I'm gonna go put that back together.

yeah, let's see that Governor set up. You know what it is too. You got that cover you could take off so you could. you could adjust it from taking that off over there.

Maybe we'll go play with that a little bit. try to get everyone a little bit faster RPMs Blow it up. let's go pop that cover off. can't get in the hole.

Probably should have measured it. We probably should be able to hear the difference, right? Yeah, so if we go, let's go count how many clicks we're going to get it. one half. I'm going to say that's that was three turns.

Probably look by the threads too, right? Let's get some junk. Off the Bench Try fire it up again. We could probably leave the cover off. Shouldn't hurt anything.

I Got my Michael Jackson glove ready to go. let's go see if she'll uh, kick over with the drill. I'm gonna leave it in that where it was running. Foreign? yeah what you would do not to wash clothes by hand back then I Guess huh? Let's go hop up on the bench and we give that kick, see if it'll go.

Uh, it does sound like it runs a little faster, huh? Not much. but again that that crankshaft isn't uh, counterbalanced. So the faster it runs the more it's going to shake. That was the bench that that bracket right back there for the tire chuck.

That's what's rattling all right. See people, you do it by hand. Oh okay, how that air fuel mix works. but maybe when it's cold we can flip it back over.

It richens it up a little bit. But right now like that, the way it works, you know for what its age is I'm gonna try doing the math up top in my head right now. 24 from 37 or so Was that 87 years old? something like that? 83 87 . let's write it in the comments.

so I wonder if we can take and block off or just open? Well, that little popper valve probably has to stay there right? because that's kind of like a check valve. But as far as like I wonder if we could just attach a carburetor right to this and have it so that we can get rid of the governor altogether and just work a throttle on it I Don't know if that'll work and work or not. I wouldn't hurt to go play with it right? because it like I'm trying to come up with like solutions that maybe we can kind of go use it for I don't for those that don't know I Built like a bunch of gas powered bikes. all different weird configurations and different engines.

different setups on them. a lot of like old military engines around the same age as this. Uh, the only problem with this one is how wide it is is your tape measure here. I'm going to say that's got to be 18 inches across.

Let's go. not that bad. fourth. I'm gonna say 14.

a fat 14. going across. so the problem is where your pedals are. You know this stuff kind of gets in the way of it.

We might be able to get rid of the Kickstart setup and that would shorten it up to right there. Still kind of wide though and can't get rid of much of this. This is part of the crank with the threads. hmm.

Also try to figure out what we can use it for. This looks like it's just a a saddle that you can loosen up. You can move to position Left Right forward and back on whatever machine you're putting it on for adjustment. you've made a tension the belt I think I saw a crack on one of them too.

but I'm on the lower section. not the is it right there? Yeah, right there that year. broken tab right there. Oh who you want? All right guys I think at this point we're gonna go call her I want to just kind of go play with it, kind of figure out how it works, what it does, and uh, seems pretty good it.

Yeah, they're fairly simple. uh I could see if you didn't have a drill and you're trying to dial it in. that would have been a pain in the ass, but uh I think it was just I think this would just set up way too rich I think I'm this is probably almost all the way closed. If we were to take this off, it probably it probably only has about another quarter inch or so a quarter turn rather before it's blocked off altogether.

Huh? Who knows. Maybe the fuel they used back then needed a little bit more I have no idea I I'm mumbling. thanks for hanging out with me, having a little bit of fun bringing old stuff back to life and uh, just kind of checking out old technology and how it did again. all that uh, all that crap didn't help much.

neither you know I have a blocked up a port or was it all the junk that we took out of it? You know. So that's not even all of it? was more. And that other valve was there too. right? that little um, the other part that was on the bottom? the metal um cap that went on the bottom of the pickup that was on there that was laying in the gas tank too.

No. that might have been what it failed for in the first part. Maybe it fell apart. they were trying to get it running, saw that I was missing and somebody put a new gasket on it.

and um, maybe that piece on the bottom was new too. Hence the clean. the clean carburetor. All right.

I'm still mumbling guys. I'll see you in the next one. Take care later one more time. All right.

one more time. Okay, all right, one more time. Can you imagine what your clothes must have smelled like after doing laundry? and that was like running underneath it with all the smoke and crap coming out of it. Probably made them worse than before you started washing them.

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