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Keith Billet
Senior Member
Username: keith
Post Number: 391
Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 06, 2013 - 09:36 am: | 
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Great Show. Good friends, great weather and gracious host. And a special treat was witnessing J.B. receiving his auction purchase from Maine. Of course you would expect J.B. to have no rest until the engine that had been in storage for years ran. After freeing up stuck ignitor's, correcting ignition timing and figuring out where to set the numerous valves and levers there was smoke. This was accomplished with the help of an oversize starter motor. But on the morning of day two, J.B. was able to start by pulling over with the flywheel. Oh, and the engine is a 8.96 hp Union built in San Francisco.
First view of his new Toy
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Keith Billet
Senior Member
Username: keith
Post Number: 392
Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 06, 2013 - 09:42 am: |
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Large starter motor.
There was smoke.
Starting by hand.
Wish I would have had a video camera. |
Keith Felder
New member
Username: keith_felder
Post Number: 2
Registered: 06-2012
| | Posted on Monday, May 06, 2013 - 12:57 pm: |
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that first picture tells all. see ya'll and all the engines when you guys get home. drive safe} |
Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1652
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 06:04 am: |
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I have all of the pics Dick Day took.
I will get them resized and posted in the next few days.
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1656
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:42 pm: |
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2013 Calvert Pics
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1657
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:45 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1658
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:47 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1659
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:49 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1660
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:51 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1661
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:52 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1662
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:54 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1663
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:56 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1664
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:57 pm: |
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1665
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 05:59 pm: |
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J.B. Castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 796
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - 10:33 pm: |
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Keith & Ernie, thanks for the post. I took the aft head off the Union at lunch time, reworked the valves after work. Went back tonight and made a gasket and reassembled it. Good compression on both cylinders now. I re timed the ignitors, noticed an f on the rear eccebntric and an a on the front one, moved them to their proper location. All parts are marked f & a, I assume fore and aft.Fueled it up, set the compression releases, pulled it though to check ignitor timing again and on the second snap I heard a chuff and it was running. Looks like it will be amazingly easy to start. I need to get a fuel tank on it, carb has a narrow range that it will operate in. |
Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1667
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - 10:37 am: |
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We knew you would!
Glad you got it
Ernie |
