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johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 99
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 09:21 pm: | 
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Just about done with the restoration of my little 2hp Detroit. New rings, repoured the babbit on the lower con rod, new wrist pin for upper con rod. Main bearings were good. Sand blasted and paint. Started it for the first time this past sunday. Started up easy and took off like a scalded dog. Thought it was going to jump off the work bench. I had one hand trying to hold the engine down and the other hand trying to get the throttle and timer lever moved back, mean while pushing the engine back on the table with my stomach and its still running. If someone had a video I probably could have won the 10,000 dollars on Americas funniest videos. I thought it might jump around a little but not that much. Guess I should have had it clamped down some how. Anyways I got it dialed in and its pretty smooth at idle anything more and she starts jumping around. The two gallon tank seems to be working ok for now. I run the engine for about 45 minutes and the water never boiled. I have attached a few photos below for everyone to see.
 
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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 190
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 09:30 pm: |
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Nice. Where did you come up with that brass tank? If you made it, where did you find the material? |
johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 100
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 09:56 pm: |
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I got the brass tank from a friend of mine he picked it up from a scrap yard or somewhere. It had some kind of heating coils inside of it no filler cap just a couple of fittings for lines. So I un-soldered the end caps cut the main tube a little shorter to get rid of the holes for the old fittings. I made the filler nozzle and cap and used new fittings. Worked out pretty good. I have to pollish it out yet. Your about the third person to ask me about the tank. |
searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 191
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 10:14 pm: |
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I have no doubt you will get that question frequently because the tank is really nice looking. I have been looking for some 5" brass pipe to make a couple of tanks myself. New brass pipe of that dimension is readily available but at a cost of a little more than $300 per foot. I had a piece of 5" hard copper pipe but that got stolen. |
robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 189
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 02:02 pm: |
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[quote]I got the brass tank from a friend of mine he picked it up from a scrap yard or somewhere.[/quote]
That's the way to find them! Keep trolling scrap yards. Most of the old fuel tanks were just soldered galvanized steel, the better sort were soldered up from copper sheet. Usually square or rectangular, as easier to make. |
