[SEL] Need Stover Help!

[Paul Maples]

Thanks Harry I would love to see your pictures, I am getting desperate.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Terpstra" <h.terpstra at wxs.nl>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Need Stover Help!


> 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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