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| My Westman needs your help. |
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Bill Schaller
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 11:37 am: | 
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I own a great little 2 hp Westman marine engine made in Minneapolis, MN. It is an early spoked flywheel engine. It is complete except for ignition, and I do not know what ignition was on it. Can any one help me on this? If you look at these pictures, you can see an ignition drive at the base of cylinder, and two holes up above to mount a timer (I assume). Any one have a catalog or ad picture that can help. any one recognize the drive? any and all guesses welcome.
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Bill Schaller
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 11:49 am: |
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Here are a couple of bigger pictures of the Westman, I assume the big lever is for a feathering prop.
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keith
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 12:54 pm: |
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Bill That is one really neat engine. I would think the bevel gear was pinned onto the camshaft. You would need a 1 to 1 bevel gear ratio, since it runs off the camshaft. |
Tom Stranko
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 01:12 pm: |
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Great engine. The timing would have to run off the cam shaft somehow. Does the cam shaft extend
forward anyplace? maybe there was a pair of right angled gears and vertical shaft driven by a chain?? (I'm just brainstorming here)
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Tom Stranko
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 03:21 pm: |
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Upon closer examination, I think that IS the cam shaft poking through in the front. The lock screw for the bearing threw me off. As Andrew stated, there was a bevel gear set to turn the vert. timer shaft. |
paul_brooking
| | Posted on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 09:31 am: |
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Certainly a nice engine.
A thing that I am confused about with that drive shaft for the ign. timer:
The inlet and exhaust are at the opposite end to the flywheel, so if that is the cam-shaft coming out the flywheel end, it must go right through the connecting rod, as it seems to be directly above the flywheel ? |
mechman
| | Posted on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 12:53 pm: |
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Goodday all. I have a 1902 Westman catalog of engines that is in rough shape--I trimed all the rot off the pages (each page is loose now) & here is a photo on the single cylinder--it apears to have an igniter rather than a spark plug. Sorry to say this the only angle that's in the ctalog--even for the other models. I hope this is of some help--it appears that the lever is to dissengage the drive coupling. |
Bill Schaller
| | Posted on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 08:34 pm: |
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here is a picture of the crankshaft, there is a gear at the front of the crankshaft for the ignition, and another at the rear for the cam. now, what is the 3/8 inch rod next to the connecting rod?
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J.B. Castagnos
| | Posted on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 09:00 pm: |
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Bill, I would think it's a tube to bring oil to the crank pin, picks it up at the wrist pin from the oiler. |
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