[SEL] Ottawa TE4 running again

[Paul Pavlinovich]

She is going again. The engine I brought home from the US was all put 
back together (thanks to a mate Stan who made new studs and refaced the 
head nice and flat) this weekend and taken to the Stringy Bark Festival 
in Melbourne. Before taking it down the best I'd made it do was pop a 
few times with most of the combustion happening within the muffler.

At the rally I set up and one of the other club members (thanks Nick!) 
helped me sort it out. It is now timed absolutely nothing like the 
recommendations made by Ottawa and it is just purring along. The only 
outstanding issues are it is getting too hot and the engine will run 
with the governor completely closing the butterfly which probably means 
it is leaking or there is some other path past the valve within the 
carby. This would not surprise me since the carby is a nasty rough sand 
casting in iron.

I'll sort it out at the Lake Goldsmith rally coming up this weekend at 
Beaufort. I'm taking the Ottawa and the drag saw and should be cutting 
all weekend. Made a new belt for the saw last night.

Paul
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pjp at steamengine.com.au
Emerald, Victoria, Australia
www.steamengine.com.au