Reply To: Can Anyone Name this Engine?

Reply To: Can Anyone Name this Engine?

27 April 2010 at 21:37 #51204

Sub Mandrel

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Posted by Steve Garnett on 21/04/2010 00:19:53:

Posted by Nicholas Farr on 20/04/2010 21:50:31:

Hi, it looks a lot like a Briggs & Stratton engine I once had on my cement mixer.

It certainly doesn’t look like a Colt engine – the arrangement of head bolts is different, for a start…

I think it is. Les sent me a set of scans of the full drawings. Almost every other part is identical but it seems there is an old 78cc cast iron block version (mine) and two larger (98cc and a bit bigger) with an alloy block. Oddly some parts are still available for the early one buit not the other.

I’ve welded up a cowling from some storage heater – my first bit of arc-weld fabrication, rather than patching over rust. A few minutes on the bench grinder and a double dose of P38 and it looks, well, like a rusty old but restored original. Now I’m having a go at hand pin-striping it…

Paint stripper has brought the carb up a treat. A Zenith 13 TCA. All sorts of holes and the cutout contact painted over, its amazing if it worked like that! Found two asbestos gaskets too

Two questions for Les, if you’d be so kind – can you give me a rough idea of the governor flap spring – on mine it’s been replaced by a bit of brass which will defeat the governor action? Also, can you let me know the spark plug type?

Many thanks

Neil

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