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Larry Healey
Member
Username: mechman
Post Number: 28
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 04, 2014 - 03:28 pm: | 
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Goodday I bought this last weekend at a local auction. It is in great condition & has compression--it has the drip oiler elbow blocked with a piece of wood,so I guess they had used a mixed fuel. it's missing the neddle valve & cover off the Krice carb I would appreciate finding the year it was made?? It will be for trade for a Canadian engine I don't have Or maybe to sell later. Larry Healey Campbellford,Ont. |
RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3381
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2014 - 11:40 am: |
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Post or email a photo, I'll have model
and year mfgrd !
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RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3384
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2014 - 11:57 am: |
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Larry's photos
Gray Model "T" serial number 17T20846
Manufactured 1920.
These were great old marine engines,in factory
form they were a true two-three port design, they could be adjusted to run only as a two port or only as a a three port or the factory setting of both !
 
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miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 773
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2014 - 09:41 pm: |
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One thing you can say for the Gray engines, is that they have very good brochure material. This one has a separate head, which for 1 cylinder Grays is not the usual thing. But it still uses a gear water pump, so it cannot be run in reverse for long.
But a nice find, for sure.
miro |
Larry Healey
Advanced Member
Username: mechman
Post Number: 31
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 08:37 am: |
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Goodday again Thanks Richard for confirming the year! The 17 numbers in front of the "T"--do they mean 17 h.p.--seems like too much??? Larry |
Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1894
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 09:48 am: |
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Larry,
The info you need is here
Scroll down and there is a size HP chart
Yours is either a 7 or a 12 my guess from the S/N is a 7
Hope this helps
Ernie |
RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3385
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 03:04 pm: |
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Larry
The second number from left is 7 that's the horse
power !
Taking a closer look at your engine is see the blocked off elbow for engine oiler that you had mentioned, oilers on Model T's were gone by 1913 so the manufacturing date of your engine would be 1910, one of the very early engines.
Sorry for not thinking about that detail earlier !
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Robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 649
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 12:04 am: |
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I have plate 14T4067 here. It was off a 14hp twin. |
Robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 742
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2016 - 11:37 am: |
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Larry, would you mind taking a few closeups of the water pump and the inlets and outlets? My "T" has a broken off port on the top of the pump and I see some heavy soldering in your photos.
Gray believed strongly in the rotary pump from the literature that Richard has kindly posted in the past, but I get the impression the vibration was too much for those little pumps and their little fittings. Perhaps Gray forgot that owners might run their engines out of adjustment and with poorly supported piping as well! |
