Here is a 10 minute film of one one of the last two engines of this type remaining. The other one is in the Smithsonian museum in D.C. It runs in spurts several times and they keep adjusting it. Finally it idles down to a nice sweet run. This youtube is slow to load and has delays during playing but is worth looking at. They must have it loaded someway with a flywheel because there is no prop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EyKeDIbODM&feature=youtu.be
Wife & I just visited the Glenn Curtis museum in
Hammondsport, ny last saturday - motorcycles - planes -
cars ( several Ts ) - & lots & lots more
Thanks Frank for the link, I enjoyed that.
Frank, If you add a few feet to the front of Ol' 22 I'll bet it would fit. All you would need is ear plugs and a little monkey to keep it oiled.
That is truly a piece of internal combustion ART. Thanks for the link!
Notice the 4 Stromberg M-4 carbs on that engine?? Guess who restored them. Yup.
The engine is going in a newly built boat being constructed at a shipyard in Washington.
Nice thats awsome thats its going to use.
our museum down here in vista just an atlas marine diesel built in the twenties that was in operation until a few months ago.
the reason they had to remove it was because of emissions. not efficiency.
Stan,
Is it really true as he says on the video that there is no air/fuel mixture adjustment on those Stromberg M-4 carburetors?
Jim
sounds like the exhaust valves are sticking, hence the backfires and the clapping sounds.
prolly needs to be run in.
thats probably the sexiest engine ive ever seen. hairpin valve springs and all.
They have a high speed mixture adjustment and a low speed mixture or idle adjustment s well as an idle speed adjustment. I think what he meant was that they have no power valve in them. They are a very simple carburetor, mostly used on Rock Island tractors in the day. They were all we could find 4 of that would mount on the flange. The original carbs are impossible to find in restorable condition.
it should have winfields! lol
1916 is too early for Winfields