[SEL] Another engine running

[Dave Ernst]

Sounds to me that your intake valve is not seating well enough.
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Terpstra" <h.terpstra at wxs.nl>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: [SEL] Another engine running


> Hi all,
>
> Saturday we had our 2HP vertical air-cooled International Famous running.
> It's running very nice, and only needed little "fine tuning"
> The problem is that it's very much "snottering" from the carburettor.
> Every time it has an intake stroke, it snotters gas out of the mixer (air
> intake)
> It is so bad that painting the engine will be pointless as it will damage
> the paint within a few hours.
>
> Since I REALLY hate leaking or splattering engine's we tried something
> different today.... Propane......
> Well it really seems to work, it's running very nice (after a short 
> warming
> up) and every time it can coast 12 times.
> The engine is has very good compresion, and really is in top condition
> (we're lucky this time;-)
> We did have allot of work making allot of parts for it though.
> many of the xternal parts were missing.
>
> Is there anyone on the SEL that has an air-cooled Famous, or any other
> experiance with snotering from the mixer?
>
> However expect for this problem I'm very happy to have it running this
> great!
>
>
>
> H.Terpstra
> Sint Anna Parochie
> Netherlands
> h.terpstra at wxs.nl
> http://home01.wxs.nl/~terps027/home.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luke Tonneberger" <flywheelin at hotmail.com>
> To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 2:00 AM
> Subject: RE: [SEL] A pair of Economy Engines
>
>
>> I like the color Dave. I bet the red striping will really set it off. 
>> Once
>> they are finished and on carts, wheel them out into the sunshine. The red
> on
>> the decals will probably get picked up better by the camera in some
> natural
>> light.
>>
>> Luke Tonneberger
>> Rockford, Michigan
>> USA
>> ==============
>>
>> >From: "Dave Ernst" <shop at cccomm.net>
>> >Reply-To: The SEL email discussion list 
>> ><sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>> >To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>> >Subject: [SEL] A pair of Economy Engines
>> >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:52:33 -0800
>> >
>> >I posted a while back about restoring a couple of Hercules built Economy
>> >engines and painting them something different than usual, like yellow.
> One
>> >person said he had stomach problems over it, so now there are two to 
>> >look
>> >at!
>> >Still have skids and carts to build along with some red pinstriping, but
> I
>> >think they surely will draw comments at the shows they will be 
>> >attending.
>> >pics at
>> >  http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=3009545
>> >
>> >Under Bob's Hercules and Hercules Restoration albums.
>> >
>> >Dave
>>
>>
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