Tailpipe by Suess
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Tailpipe by Suess
The other day after work I took a short drive in my panel. I finally got sick of the fumes coming through the back door and the wood floor. When I first got it running I installed a y pipe from C and G and then a muffler with the chrysler logo that my wife brought home from the dump one day. It was a whole system and looked new. Well, it yielded some pipe and that muffler, but it ended in front of the rear axle. So after my drive I scrounged up a bunch of pipe and adapters from years of leftover projects, plumbing, swingsets, whatever. It took ten pieces after the muffler to get out the back and off to the side. It made a huge difference even though it looks like something from a Dr Suess book.
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I'm leaving in the morning in the '59 for 4 days at the Puget Sound Antique Tractor and Machinery's annual meet at Lynden Wa. About 500 tractors and lots of old gas and steam stuff. I haven't missed in 30 years. A lot of you have seen this already, but a spectator took this video of my big gas engine and put it on youtube. 1912 8 hp stover hit and miss gas engine. It weighs 2125 lbs and I run it at about 75 rpms. That's what I do up there. The tonner panel isn't quite ready for the freeway so I'm gonna take the cummins powered F350 express pickup and sleep in the back under my homemade canopy. Ill get some pics while there. See you when I get back. I can't do FTE by phone 
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Some guy from a neighboring island to Orcas showed up with this '29 Hart-Parr that had sat outside for 50 years. We unstuck it for him, freed the valves etc and made a few attempts at starting it, but the magneto was too shot. Then we built a timer for a model t coil with 2 sheet rock screws, a hacksaw blade and a hose clamp. Got it to fire a few times, but suggested he get the mag rebuilt. At car shows I see that folks sit in front of their car in a lawn chair, but we gotta find something that's really broken and fix it.
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I'll be heading to Rollag, MN over Labor Day weekend for the Western MN Steam Threshers Reunion. I love that place!
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I think I'm the only one in that group photo that hasn't been to Rollag. I only go to the one show. I need a week's rest when it's over..... Now I'm off island again tomorrow on the first ferry for a big load of cabinet stuff. So much for the rest. 
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Looks like a lot of fun there!! I love that pull start setup. You should have used the hit and miss for a pony motor.
You know, I was just thinking how much you remind me of a guy I met when I was a kid. It was on the Alaska pipeline, I was 22 and he was in his 60s. I watched him rebuild a magneto using 6 cylinder chevy points and carved a new insulator from a piece of moose horn. He had hardly any tools and could fix anything.
You know, I was just thinking how much you remind me of a guy I met when I was a kid. It was on the Alaska pipeline, I was 22 and he was in his 60s. I watched him rebuild a magneto using 6 cylinder chevy points and carved a new insulator from a piece of moose horn. He had hardly any tools and could fix anything.
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