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Thank you for the encouragement Chuck. Still not able to start by hand, but it does fire rather quickly using a powerdrill. The first...

Thank you so much for the reference to an article and for taking the time to make a dimensioned drawing. Very much appreciated. My...

Tear Down and Inspection The engine seems pretty well broken in now and I thought I would try and make it more dependable when...

Hi Mike, Thank you for the suggestion to make PCV valves. How does one do that in a small scale? Do you use tiny ball bearings or such...

Thank you Ghosty, That makes me feel better about all that advance. I remade the water pump impeller using a stouter 1/4 drill rod shaft...

Thank you Jeff, good advice and I will fix the water pump first and try it again, but I think at least one of the rings is cracked or...

Thank you very much for sharing that. 🙂🙂🙂 Sure enough I had 1000 ohm resistance when checking across the discarded RCEXL boots. I cut...

Thank you Chuck, The ignition module arrived and I transferred the soldered wiring over to it similar to what I did before. I added an...

The replacement Rcexl twin fire ignition module is on the slow ship from China making it over to Florida. I was really tempted to go a...

Good News I got the engine running fairly reliably and shut it down because I didn't have the cooling system connected and the ignition...

You are welcome. I believe I saw it being used somewhere else and thought the same. For 1/4 fittings this holding fixture is 5/8"...

Plumbing & Gaskets PM Research sure does make some beautiful cast bronze fittings so I purchased the 90 elbow trees to eliminate some...

I did have to remake the spray hood to get the water to trickle down the screening. I switched to aluminum to save weight so I could...

Cooling Pump There is a plan for a centrifugal pump included in Doug Kelley's book. I started the build by drilling the bearing cavity...

The fuel tank work continued very well using the plumbers acid flux and 3-1/2% silver solder. Hardest part was the two gauge glass...