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Greg
02-15-2002 07:43:53
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Wisconsin Engine....Sell, Fix, or Forget in reply to Zira, 02-14-2002 19:19:41
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Thanks for your comments, Zira. As you can probably guess by my email address, I restore cars,specializing in Buick. This will be my first adventure in stationary engines. I used these old two lungers on the farm when I was a kid and had a NH model 77 baler with a VF4D on it. I found these engines to be reliable, but expensive to fix, and tempermental to start if you killed them hot. An old guy in the community where I grew up in Missouri told me a secret on the hot start problem inherent in the V-4 Wisconsins, and presumably would work in all Wisconsins. He milled the head(s) to gain a little more compression. His theory was that the valve clearance specs on these engines were too tight and caused a loss of compression when hot. So he would take .020 or so off the heads and open the clearances on the valves a couple thousanths or so and it took care of the problem on the VF4D on my baler. I wouldn't own one without electric start, either. I think I will just keep this one and fix it up and paint it and maybe do some chrome plating of accessories and them find a VF4D and a one cylinder, take them to the old engine shows and do some advertising for my business, and of course, have some fun fixing up part of the past like I do with cars. Thanks for your input, and if you have any other ideas for fixing up and displaying this old TJD, please let me know. BTW...would I be considered odd if I painted this engine some color other than gray, whick I believe to be Wisconsin engine color? This one appears to have been red originally, as I have found no gray paint when I stripped a small area on the block. So if I painted this one red with some chrome accents, would you laugh at me at an engine show??!! All the best..... ..Greg
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