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Rumley- How did they work?

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mike

02-18-2001 08:22:19




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Will anyone help me to understand the oil pull motor? was it a 4 stroke motor? Did Rumley make a fuel oil steam tractor? thank you.




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hammerhead

02-21-2001 20:00:43




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 Re: Rumley- How did they work? in reply to mike, 02-18-2001 08:22:19  
My family has 3 oilpulls (2 lightweights and a heavyweight)and they use a 4-cycle engine. They did start on gasoline then once the engine was warmed up it was switched over to kerosene. The engine's tolerance to burn lower quality fuels such as kerosene is much higher when warmed up. The water is used to control detonation or pinging under load when burning the kerosene. But this is neither here nor there as everyone I know of now runs them on gasoline alone. If you have any more questions about these tractors email me I have an extensive library on these tractors. Hammerhead

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Tom

02-18-2001 21:04:34




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 Re: Rumley- How did they work? in reply to mike, 02-18-2001 08:22:19  
The Rumley Oil Pull burned kerosene, and had water injection, to aid the combustion process.



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larry Wolfe

02-18-2001 15:52:25




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 Re: Rumley- How did they work? in reply to mike, 02-18-2001 08:22:19  
I don't have one,but I think they where 4 cycle engines that started on gas then switched to kerosene.They have magnetos. The old small ones where 1 cylinder. most that i see are 2 cylinder horizontal engines similar to JD but larger.Their cooling system gives them a differant look than modern tractors.They used cooling stacks with an induced draft that used exast directed up through the center to cool the tractor. Some of the same people made the Townsen tractor,it had a similar engine but used a boiler tank to cool the tractor. This tractor looked just like a steamer,but allso ran on kerosene. Its possible one of these came out with the oilpull name.

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