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Yesterday I decided to build a fuel tank for the old Fairbanks-Morse Z.
The tank is made from 1/8 inch mild steel and MIG welded together.
The photo shows the screened suction tube I fabricated along with the basic
set-up and piping. The carburetor is two sided and it is supposed to
start on gasoline and after warmed up a bit switched over to the other
side of the carburetor to run on kerosene. I may run it on gasoline or a mix
of gas and diesel as kerosene is expensive and hard to find. The engine has
a fuel pump that fills the bowl and the excess runs out an overflow back to the
fuel tank.
The second phase of this project is to add water cooling of some kind
using some piping and a big tank or possibly a small water pump and
a screen dribble down system.
It is a throttle governed engine so it supposed to hit every two revolutions
but it needs a bit of tweaking to get it to cooperate in that fashion. It starts
easily so with a little work it will be a fine engine. It was a stuck engine
when I got it and has new rings now with nice compression.
Here are some photos of my latest work on the engine.
Vintage: about 1920
Weight: about 1800 pounds
The tank is made from 1/8 inch mild steel and MIG welded together.
The photo shows the screened suction tube I fabricated along with the basic
set-up and piping. The carburetor is two sided and it is supposed to
start on gasoline and after warmed up a bit switched over to the other
side of the carburetor to run on kerosene. I may run it on gasoline or a mix
of gas and diesel as kerosene is expensive and hard to find. The engine has
a fuel pump that fills the bowl and the excess runs out an overflow back to the
fuel tank.
The second phase of this project is to add water cooling of some kind
using some piping and a big tank or possibly a small water pump and
a screen dribble down system.
It is a throttle governed engine so it supposed to hit every two revolutions
but it needs a bit of tweaking to get it to cooperate in that fashion. It starts
easily so with a little work it will be a fine engine. It was a stuck engine
when I got it and has new rings now with nice compression.
Here are some photos of my latest work on the engine.
Vintage: about 1920
Weight: about 1800 pounds
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