On Apr 20, 7:38*am, hk wrote:
On 4/20/10 8:30 AM, Tim wrote:





I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning. It's cold here and took a couple hit and cough's, but on
the third time it high idled well, and after taking the choke and idle
down, it had that neat 'cackle'

Engine had good compression and fires evenly. I didn't have time to
clean off the engine, but will do that this evening.. This float had
been trailered on some pretty dusty roads and with the grommet gon
from the throttle cable to the cowl base it's got some crap in thre
but not really bad.

Jut by looking around, I detected a bit of minor oil weepage from up
in the flywheel area but nothing that I'd be considering of a great
concern. I'll probably run it this season but change the seal out this
winter.

Another thing I though was cool is that it still has the origional
Prestolite starter motor still on it. So, it must be a good runner
because that's the first thing that would burn out due to extended and
over cranking.

BTW, the guy said the engine fouls plugs like crazy but he also said
he mixes the oil pretty thick too. I believe it because especially
when choked it fogged like crazy, and with no breeze, there was the
neatest blue haze hovering across the back yard.

But till, I cant have that, so I'll have my brother mix the gas/oil.
He's the Amzoil expert. Not to find a place that sells straight
gasoline intead of the gas-o-hol mix.

I think I have a winner!

Straight gas? What are you looking for, a circa 1950s country store with
pumps out front?


Harry, we still have a place around here that has the old time pumps
with the rolling mechanical numbers, not digital and the don't accept
a credit card at the pump. Knapps at Xenia IL. and it's right on the
way to the lake too!

From what I understand thee are some places that still offer it in my
area. the 87 octane is supposedly straight petro and the 89 is a 10
percent ethanol. But I've heard that Caseys stores supposedly
guarentee there's to be straigh petrol. With modern fuel stabilizers
the engines are suppose to be protected from oil seperation but I need
to research that a bit better.