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#1
Things you are looking for. / Water Outlet Elbow '29
January 09, 2018, 12:43:14 PM
Hello everyone;
looking for my barn-find ex tresher '29 Plymouth drive train turned stationary engine the water elbow. Not sure if the term is correct, but anyway lookin for that cast iron part that bolts to the cylinder head and points towards the radiator top tank. Mine is cracked, in fact it's in bits. Corrosion had started lifting it and upon removal it collapsed. A usable replacement would be much appreciated. I'm located in Europe. Thanks.
#2
Thanks for the friendly answers, I will study the links. So far I have dropped the oil pan and everything looked good and oily there. I guess the engine didn't run much as a stationary unit. The Carter carb is a mess, thou, looks like there were some pot metal parts inside and they have turned into powder. Could be that the farmers modified it. The engine was run on tractor kerosene after being started with gasoline. I think it didn't clock up many hours as a tresher, they probably got something better to run the machinery soon.
#3
Wanted to add, that I'm located in Finland. There's no real hope of finding enough parts here to make this unit into a automobile again, I guess these are rare vehicles in Scandinavia. The worst problem at the moment is the distributor base, which is crumbling. I have a few friends in the engineering business who have promised to look into it.
#4
Hello everyone; I came across a intresting piece of agricultural engineering, a (I think) 1929 Plymouth engine turned into stationary engine, to drive a treshing box during WW2. The gadget was on its way to the scrap heap, I couldn't let that happen so I decided to save it. Engine number is - as far as I can read it - U3948. It has original radiator, gear box, most of the fuel system, some of the instruments, and what turned out to be a governor made out of a Model T Ford generator. The pot metal parts are gone, of course. I'm trying to restore it to running condition. Hope the attached picture is viewable.