That would sound good in a home made crawler!
That's one idea I guess. Would be good as a power unit too, it has a PTO clutch on it. It was stuck when I got it but freed up easily with a bit of diesel in the bores and some fiddling. Sounds like it may have loose rod bearings turning it over, and I've no idea if the rings are any good after being stuck. Also missing the sheet metal, fuel pump and governor, or at least governor linkage. So it wouldn't take much I think to be usable, but the flip side is it would definitely take some work. I'm tempted to keep it as a toy, but I'm moving and already have more junk than I know what to do with....
I believe that they were used on one of the Caterpillar- John Deere small towed type grain harvestors just after Deere took over Caterpillar's towed harvestor line.
Does it have a Wisconsin tag on it?
Surprised to see its an inline overhead valve with a distributor and starter for that vintage?
I would have said Wisconsin only built air cooled, magneto, hand crank flat head engines but you learn something new everyday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJk3laoqh9w neat engine
No tag or serial/casting number I can find, but comparing it to pictures and the manual it's clear that's what it is. Everything I find says magneto & hand start too, so I think this is either a late production special option or a conversion someone did.
Anyone want this? Free to good home, need to clean up the yard.
dunno how I missed this thread before would be a cool bit of gear to own to far to bring of here very cool just the same I have a use in mind for it already just gotta find one out here I have never seen anything like that before
Paul
Anyone want this? Free to good home, need to clean up the yard.
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