this is the last of a 3 part set. on this one we tear the engine down to see if we ca fix the compression so it can run at high rpm without breaking up. hope you enjoy watching as much as l did working on it.
one mans junk is another mans treasure…
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I think about a design that will simply wear out. Not break, wear out. Great design.
I'm ad to hear you took my advice and used hot glue on the valves to lap them in .
I love these old briggs man… I buy up all the cheap edgers and tillers in town just to revive these old workhorses 🤙
That was AWESOME
You know you wanna take that moose home. Thanks for your work. Love the exploratory.
I wonder if the piston is a smaller piston out of a diffrent engine.
it needs a new sparkplug too!!!!
Wow, that moose!
my dad had one if these engines he used for cutting up wood on a circle saw belt drive for may years
August of 1953. that cylinder is indestructible cast iron, and you'll never need to change the piston, despite all of the side to side slop. just a bead hone, new rings, and lapp in the valves, a clean set of points and condenser, and she'll run for a hundred years straight…. again. if you have any questions on this one, the channel is, road King 85, and his buddy Mikey. these guys do all the early briggs stuff. they're in New England, & they are masters at what they do. and those piston rings have a small Gap, that motor can go pretty tight tolerance because of it the cast iron cylinder, and it's lack of expansion. so yeah, those rings are worn. the minute you rock that piston side to side you could tell they were wore out. it's about the only thing that really does wear completely out on this thing.
My guess?? Somebody honed the cylinder wall to death, stuffed the piston assembly back in the bore and took a lunch break.
I've grown addicted to your videos keep them coming this is a old one it's still good
For a while there it sounded like that engine needed to be taken out back and shot. But it came around.
Valve guides wore out Also
Ran into that problem on a small block Chevrolet oval Cylinder
My guess the rings are too big
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