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David J Myrand
Visitor
| | Posted on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 10:35 pm: | 
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I have a Universal Flexifour. All the data I find says it should be a model B,C,F,FA??
the brass data tag says mine is a type N B-X??
Ser# 18836. I would appreciate some help to identify HP? year, etc. I want to restore it to run good and maybe go to some antique engine shows. Aloha Dave M |
Bruce Hall
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 198
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 05:13 pm: |
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Dave, See if this site is any help. HTTP://hessmarine.ca/universalhistory.html I see a model BN listed there?? |
Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 987
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 06:09 pm: |
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I had trouble with the above link. If you also have trouble try this.
http://hessmarine.ca/
Scroll down to Universal History near the bottom. |
Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 316
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 10:03 pm: |
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I have a Type N Universal engine that Northern Pump coupled up with a gear pump. There are photos of it in this Topics section. Your post is the only other reference I have seen to the term Type N as opposed to the term Model N. Perhaps Universal used the terms interchangeably? The attached page was sent to me from a 1927 Universal catalog. Note the reference to 'The New Universal Flexifours' and that all four variations depicted are of the Model N. My Universal has 'Ricardo Head' and the November 13, 1923 patent date cast into the head. It has a lot in common with the model N engines shown here so I expect mine is in the same 1927 age range.
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peter brainard
New member
Username: 8122pbrainard
Post Number: 1
Registered: 03-2010
| | Posted on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 12:47 pm: |
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I too have a model N (1927 - 1928) that I'm currently rebuilding. I'm at the point of putting the crank back in and was checking out the routing of the oil lines to the main bearings (rods are splash). The oil is feed from the exterior mounted piston oil pump through porting in the block and into the crank case. From this point it "T's" with one copper line running to the rear main cap and forward with copper to the front (flywheel end). This is elbowed back into the block but this porting goes nowhere!! I have poked and proded and even hooked up compressed air to confirm this. There is no line running to the forward main cap and infact this cap isn't drilled or tapped for a fitting.
Am I missing something???
Also, I'm in need of a magneto. Anyone know the model used on this Flexi? |
peter brainard
New member
Username: 8122pbrainard
Post Number: 3
Registered: 03-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 06:28 pm: |
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I spoke with a friend who is a marine mechanic however not at all familiar with older engines. He brought up a interesting concept/idea about this oil line than goes nowhere. A means of pulsation dampening or a reservoir due to the oil pump being a piston type rater than a continuous flow rotary? If true, the big question still remaining is how does the front bearing get oil??? |
peter brainard
Member
Username: 8122pbrainard
Post Number: 4
Registered: 03-2010
| | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 07:30 pm: |
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I feel I've answered my own question/mystery regarding the oil line running up to the flywheel end main bearing. I found a steel plug way down in the drilled hole in the block. This plug has a flat ground on it's side to meter the oil flow. This was completely blocked off and I was lucky to find it. From this metered port, oil goes into a reservoir over the main bearing and gravity feeds it. I was able to drive the plug out, clean it up and reinstall it.
I am looking for a Zenith T3X carb. |
Robert B. Price
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 305
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 08:01 pm: |
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Peter - try calling Ms.Matty Bellamy @ Zenith Fuel Systems, Bristol, VA 276.669.5555 and see if she can help you. She is the parts person for old Zenith carbs.
Bob Price |
peter brainard
Member
Username: 8122pbrainard
Post Number: 5
Registered: 03-2010
| | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2010 - 01:56 pm: |
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Bob,
Thanks for the information. I'll give her a call. Sounds like she's been around Zenith for awhile! |
RICK GREIDER
Visitor
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 06:44 pm: |
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JUST AQUIRED A UNIVERSAL DC GENERATOR. HAS A UNIVERSAL 4 CYL GAS MOTOR, HAND CRANK, MAG IGN. GOT IT TURNING OVER ONE STUCK VALVE IS GETTING LOOSE NO SPARK YET. LOOKING FOR INFO. WHAT YEAR, WHERE TO GET PARTS ETC. |
L. David Arscott
New member
Username: ldavid
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 03:50 pm: |
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I have 2 old marine engines setting in my boat house and would like to know there value and some information. What follows is from the name plate on these 2 motors. Both have been in this boathouse for the last 60 or 70 years and has been passed to me from my grandfather who died in the late 1950's and was a boating user on Lake Huron.
1. Universal Flexifour Marine, Universal Type M, Serial No 12937, Built by Universal Motor Co, Oshkosh, Wi.
Question: What is its approx value and what might be the hp and year built?
2. Mullins Marine Engine, hp 6, 2 cyclinder, Model 1910, Desiged by E.W. Roberts, M.E., for the W.H Mullins Co., Salem, Ohio.
Question: What is its approx value? I assume the Model is the year built. |
