Thanks to David for letting us know we’re famous. They play the engine sounds clip at about 30 minutes into the program. The program is archived on the website here. They played a lot of different sound clips, including one from OTM Inc’s everyday life: old engine sounds! KUOW, the local NPR station, ran a Weekday program on “field recording” the sounds of everyday life around us. On the other hand, the rod bearings are very rigid and so bluing will work well on them.
It is a little extra work, but I’m getting great results, so I’ll continue to do it this way. The lapping shows the contact area much better than bluing in this case. This process insured that the bearing was the same shape it would be when running. Then, rather than bluing to fit, I installed each bearing and then installed the squisher tool, then lapped the bearing in a little, and then scrape down the high spots. This time, I needed to do a lot of extra measuring because the first time around the bearings were wrong (back in Week 17). There is no one “right” way to fit bearings: so much of it depends on the individual circumstances that it changes often. I picked up the bearings with the rental car on my way to Quincy, and spent the rest of the week measuring the bearings and cautiously fitting them into the number three engine. I still stop in every now and then to talk and see how he is doing, because I didn’t get just an engine out of the deal, I also got a friend.On Monday, it was back to Illinois. You should have seen the smile on his face – that made it all worthwhile. He came out of his house, saw the engine in the truck and asked, “Will it run?” I didn’t say a word, I just got in the back of the truck, turned the switch on, pulled the flywheels and off she went. I took the engine back to the man I got it from to show him how it turned out. I mounted the Eclipse and a battery box on the skids, and it looks so good I think I will leave it this way. Looking around my shop I found an original set of skids for a 1 -1/2 HP McCormick-Deering M. With the governor working properly and a little tinkering it now runs well and starts easily. I moved the lobe to where I thought it should be, put it back together and tried again. With the governor on the cam gear it all has to be in line, but it wasn’t. Looking at the cam again I found the problem: The lobe on the cam was in the wrong place. I remembered that while I was putting it back together I had noticed that someone had made a new camshaft for it. Everything looked okay, so I started it again – it didn’t run any better.Īfter a few days of trying to find the problem I got to thinking. The governor wasn’t working, so I stopped the engine and checked it over. I wish I could say it ran well, but it didn’t. Once 1 had it all back together it was time to start it, and after a few pulls on the flywheels the Eclipse started and ran. I was amazed that after 30-plus years all the parts were there, including all the nuts, bolts, washers and springs. The valves were in bad shape, so I made new ones, cleaned all the parts and put it together.
I set the marine engine aside and started on the Eclipse.
When I got home I unloaded my truck and looked over my new toys. I made the trip back home, got my two engines, went back to his place and unloaded my engines and loaded up the Eclipse and the marine engine. I told him I’d give him both of my engines for the Eclipse and the marine engine, and he agreed. He asked me if I still had the two engines, and when I told him I did he asked if I still wanted to trade. All the parts to the Eclipse were there, even the gas tank (which was in good condition), and the marine engine was complete and had fair compression. With all the pieces finally out in the open I looked every thing over. I started pulling out parts, and while looking for all the parts to the Eclipse I found a small marine engine – single-cylinder, upright, inboard, no name on it. Still no deal.Ībout six months later I stopped in again, and this time he told me to go in the shop, get the Eclipse out and look it over. On one of my visits I had two engines with me, a new 11 HP Honda and a new 12 HP Kawasaki, which I offered in trade for the Eclipse. Some times I would say something about the engine, and other times we would just talk about old cars and, as he was a dirt track racer, dirt track racing. For two years, whenever I was in the area I would stop in and talk to him.
He told me his son wanted the engine, so I thanked him again and went on my way. About a month later I was in the area, so I stopped in to see what he had decided.
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