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dick_briggs
Advanced Member
Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 45
Registered: 02-2015
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - 06:09 pm: | 
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Saw this at the Dublin gathering. Nice little Gray (stuck unfortunately) with an unusual to me check valve that has a threaded hole in the side. What might this be for? How would the check valve work? Thanks, Dick
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 2658
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 10:11 am: |
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I would assume that someone had an oiler on it there. As long as it was on the carb side of the check valve it should work OK.
The engine is a Gray Mississippi Sand Sucker with the piston water pump. Search for that and there is some info on OME someplace.
Hope this helps
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dick_briggs
Advanced Member
Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 46
Registered: 02-2015
| | Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 06:44 am: |
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Thanks Ernie - that makes sense; I should have thought of that. Would this engine necessarily have needed an oiler in the fuel inlet? |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 2662
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 01:35 pm: |
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Not really as it ran on pre-mix.
However many of the old timers still wanted an oiler no matter what. |
