[AT] New to me

[Spencer Yost]

Thanks - The new manifold is a gas engine manifold.  The gaskets “looked” right but I’ll double check it.   

Spencer 

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> On Sep 11, 2022, at 10:05 PM, Milo Holroyd <milo at milosmachineshed.com> wrote:
> 
> Good on You for the rescue. Something I ran into re: manifold, on a 42 "B" was that the new after  mkt manifold and gasket were a terrible mis-match  that I did not catch upon install.
> Result, fire on two  cylinders, dead on 2 cylinders. After some head scratching I wound up making my own gaskets. Problem solved.
> Just a heads up.
> Milo
> 
>> On 9/11/22 9:38 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> I’ve been pretty quiet. I thought life would get less busy as I got older but it hasn’t really turned out that way.
>> 
>> I did manage to score a new (to me) tractor. It’s an Allis Chalmers ‘C’; 1947.  I didn’t really intend to get it, but it was sort of like picking up a rescue dog just because you couldn’t stand to see it put down..  Belonged to an old man who bought it because a ‘C’ was the tractor he learned to drive on 75 years ago.  He just never had the energy, health, time to work on it.  He had done some work and had pretty much disassembled it. Because of its state and condition he just really never had any active buyers. It looked destined for an estate sale where the junk man picked it up for pennies.
>> 
>> Anyways, he had lots of new parts (gauges, manifolds, decals, fenders, etc) and had done a pretty decent job restoring the gas tank. Right now the magneto is not making any spark but with the help of Brice Adams I’ve narrowed it down to something in the rotor cap or the inner base simply eating the spark. I get a nice blue spark jumping directly to the coil button so I feel confident that a tuneup for magneto will bring it to life.
>> 
>> Right now I managed to pull the manifold studs without breaking a single one. I even got the nuts off. So after soaking in parts cleaner tonight I’ll chase all the threads, clean and file mating surfaces, and get them back in the engine. One of the new parts he had was a brand new manifold and manifold gasket.
>> 
>> I haven’t done a compression test, but the engine does put plenty of pressure on the thumb when turning it by hand so it should start at least.   The old manifold was an all-fuel manifold. It looked original based on it’s nearly completely disintegrated condition. Engine serial number does have a G suffix(think that means gas engine) so maybe it got a gas engine  swap sometime in its history and they simply reused the all-fuel manifold? No idea. I just want the engine to pop before I route fuel lines and worry about power, performance, and idle smoothness.
>> 
>> 
>> That’s it for now,
>> 
>> Spencer
>> 
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