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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 855
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 12:24 pm: | 
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Looking for photo of the exhaust manifold !
The history site here says engine should be black with polished brass (Bumble Bee).
Any help appreciated ! Richard
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andrew
Moderator
Username: andrew
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 01:46 pm: |
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Richard,
I have pictures of 6 or 7 different McDuff engines and they are all black (except for the copper jacketed two cylinder model). My two cylinder engine is black. I think Keith Billet has a single cylinder that is black (not a Bumble Bee).
The engine in the picture below I believe is Ernie's... correct me if I'm wrong Ernie...
I have another picture of a Bumble Bee with an exhaust manifold that doesn't turn aft as Ernie's does. It appears to be a casting that tranisitions to a pipe thread, straight out. Quite a few of the Bumble Bee pictures I have seem to be missing the manifold! I will scan the other one that shows the straight manifold and post it later.
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 572
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 05:54 pm: |
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Yup it was mine. However I made that exhaust manifold.
I don't know what the original looked like |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 857
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 12:14 pm: |
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Thanks Andrew
The water pump intake check valve on the green & black McDuff above leaves no room for an aft facing manifold ! Straight out would seem right on this model ! |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 573
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 03:10 pm: |
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I made the manifold for a specific boat. I had to use an elbow between the pump and the inlet check valve. When I got the engine it had a hand fabricated flange welded to pipe straight out. It may have been original, however it was for sure not a casting. |
andrew
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Username: andrew
Post Number: 1211
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 09:29 am: |
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Richard,
I'm afraid these pictures won't help you much, but there are the only ones I can find that show the straight manifold on the Bumblebee. The photos were taken by me in 1997, but I don't recall whose engine it is or where it was taken. Maybe someone will recognize it.
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 865
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 01:17 pm: |
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Andrew
Thanks for the photos I know how time consuming it is to dig back through them to find the one you know you took back when. photo enhancing gives me a very good idea of what it looked like.
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Delayed response, have been at the farm in north Florida this past week away from computer, really rural have to drive to highway and head 3 miles either way just to get cell phone to work.
worked on old tractors and mowed property and fields in between downpours. Lifted up canvas on the 1929 Hart-Parr 18 / 36 and stared at the Schebler carb about the size of a Cantaloupe, got to thinking about gas prices and that it would probably take about two dollars worth now just to prime the bowl ?? |
