[SEL] Fw: Wisconsin Engine

[Don & Kay Fleming]

Hi All,
 I received the following note a couple of days ago and I am wondering if anyone on the list can help Brian and John out.  I have had no experience with wisconsin engines.  I am sure that any help would be greatly appreciated.  They are not on the list but Brian's e-mail is ba.lake at sasktel.net    Thanks in advance.

Don Fleming
Kipling, Sask. Canada
<d.fleming at sasktel.net> 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: B Lake 
To: Don & Kay Fleming 
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:36 AM
Subject: Wisconsin Engine


Good morning, Don 
I'm hoping you might be able to assist with setting up the engine I was helping John install in his skid-steer loader this week.  We have it running, but it likely last ran on a swather in the 70's and probably should have a little tuning up.  John had taken it apart when he got it and oiled the cylinders, etc. so it's in pretty good shape.  The problem relates to ignition timing.
The distributor had to be changed from the old engine, because the swather version didn't have the required distributor drive pulley to run the alternator.  When we went to move the distributor, we couldn't find any marks on the distributor to get it installed correctly, so we rotated the crankshafts to approx. the same position, marked the rotor in the distributor and went with that.  After we got it running, the old method of rotating the distributor to max idle speed, then retarding slightly, doesn't seem to be optimum--the idle isn't great, but when you speed it up to do some work, it runs very well, apparently better than the original.
Any information you could find about setting up the timing, etc. would be appreciated.  It is a Wisconsin VG4D.
Thanks.  TTYS.  Brian