[SEL] Need Stover Help!

[Lyndsay Frazer]

Hi Paul.
          I was helping a friend with his YB Stover recently (1917) and the 
fuel saver was double ended and I am fairly sure it was positioned on the 
opossite side of the inlet valve to yours. I also have a friend with a 
horizontal and the fuel saver on it is more like the one in your photos. Is 
it possible you have the wrong lever(perhaps off a type C horizontal).. I 
can't really see how yours could work as when the rocker moves downward it 
will push the lever away from the valve instead of towards it.
         I could be entirely wrong here but it is just a thought.

Regards,
Lyndsay in OZ





>From: "Paul Maples" <pmaples at anaxis.net>
>Reply-To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>To: "Stationary Engine List" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Subject: [SEL] Need Stover Help!
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:32:43 -0500
>
>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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