[SEL] Need Stover Help!

[Harry Terpstra]

Paul ,

I have an early 3 HP Stover YB, with the original fuel saver on.
I can take pictures for you to see if this is what you need.
If it is exactly the same, I could have one cast for you.
I doubt if they are the same though as your engine is about 11000 earlier
than my YB.


Harry Terpstra
Sint Anna Parochie
Netherlands
h.terpstra at wxs.nl
http://home01.wxs.nl/~terps027/home.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Maples" <pmaples at anaxis.net>
To: "Stationary Engine List" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: [SEL] Need Stover Help!


> Folks you all know that I have been trying for years to find the right
Fuel
> Saver Arm for my 1905 Vertical Stover. I thought I had finally succeeded
> when my good friend John Billings wrote me that he had purchased a Stover
> and he thought it had the exact arm on it I needed. Not only did John give
> me this information but he immediately offered to take his arm off and
have
> one cast for me and send it to me. John took the part off of his Stover,
had
> one cast for me, and then machined it and sent it to me.......what a
> friend......
>
> I got the parts in last Friday and excitedly ran out to the shop to
install
> them. It became apparent immediately that this was not the right arm. I am
> enclosing pictures of my Stover Head without the rocker arm and fuel saver
> arm installed and then I show the head with the rocker arm and the new
fuel
> saver arm that John made for me. The pictures will affirm the following:
>
> The bevel grind that John put on the arm (which was correct for his
engine)
> is on the wrong side for my setup. Although this is wrong this would be an
> easy fix if this was all that was wrong.
>
> Also you will not that the arm will have to have a right hand bend in it
to
> properly work as now it is as close as it can get the to contact plate on
> the valve. I know that cast iron cannot be bent but I now have the basic
> design of the arm and by having this part I can calculate the amount of
bend
> I would need in a correct arm. I have confirmed, by looking at the wear
> pattern on the rocker arm finger that the fuel saver arm did set on the
head
> at this exact angle thus also confirming that the arm did originally have
a
> bend in it in order to reach the valve contact plate. Here are pictures of
> my head and parts:
>
> http://community.webshots.com/photo/163076625/163077139KGQWJV
>
> I am searching for several things at this point. It is obvious to me that
> Stover installed many different fuel saver arms on his engines as there
are
> many configurations out in the engine world. I would love to find someone
> who has my exact setup as this would make it easier for me to redesign the
> parts I have and make them work. I also need an understanding of just how
> this fuel saver arm works and should be set up.
>
> I not only want to get my engine setup but, after all of the problems I
have
> encountered, I want to put together a small booklet on Stover Fuel Saver
> Arms and make this available to the engine public (free - only cost
postage
> to mail to you). I would appreciate all of the pictures I could get of
> Stover Fuel Saver Arms advising me of the following:
>
> Year and Model of Engine the Fuel Saver Arm is On.
> Model Number and Serial Number of Engine
> Horse of Engine
> Your Name (if you want to give it)
>
> I will compile this information into a colored brochure, or booklet, and
> make it available to anyone who would want one.
>
> Thanks and I am looking forward to hearing from all of you Stover Owners
who
> have engines with Fuel Saver Arms on them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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