06-26-2020, 12:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2020, 10:41 PM by Terry Bentley.)
Chapter 45
After working all day, I was feeling a little bit drained. Even less motivated. Or maybe just tired and hungry. But Steve wastes no time pulling out all of the Clintons from our pile and brings them inside for us to oogle over. We check over these junk engines carefully and handle them like they are brand new. Now that they are ours we can dream big. There are a few others still left in a pile outside.
I reach in my tee shirt pocket and grab one of the nickels, then toss it over to Steve. Mr Grimes reimbursed us for the drinks. Speaking of, you want one? Steve gets a little too excited at first. Then asks if he can have my nickel too. No, you cant. Steve asks what the date on mine is. I dunno, what difference does it make? I guess thats a no on the pop?
He said he cant tell what the year is on his nickel. I grab the other one out of my pocket and then realize Mr Grimes had given us Buffalo nickels. Way cool. The date on mine was 1938. This was last year of the Buffalo and first year of the Jefferson nickel. Hum, wonder if there was any significance to him giving these to us. Anyway I dont have this one in my coin collection. Well I do now.
Time to get down to some serious business. I grab a rag and dip it in the parts cleaner. Then go around each engine and wipe off years of neglect and dirt covering the model tags. We now officially have in our corral of Clintons, one A-200, two A-400 models, one incomplete A-490, E-65, D-2 and 2 D-35 chainsaws. The three saws are all minus bars, chains and air filters. I had already stripped a lot of saw pieces off of some of these.
My reason to snag up the chainsaws specifically was because of the Tillotson carburetors. I looked on every two cycle engine we tore down for those that might have one. Or anything else we might be able to use. Tillotson carburetors and karts just seem to fit together perfectly.
Steve grabs out one more engine he had pulled from the junk pile and put to the side earlier in the day. I had not seen this one yet. Sitting it next to the Clintons he asks what model it is. I checked it out and noticed it didnt look just like the other ones here. The steel shroud was grey and was similar to a Clinton. Wait this looks more like the yellow engine on you dads McCulloch mower. It should be a Westbend.
I flipped over the engine and looked for a tag to confirm it. After wiping off the grime and dirt...Gee if that sticker was a snake, both of us would have already been bitten. Big obvious checkered flag WESTBEND sticker in plain sight. Sort of hard to miss that one. Even if not looking for it either. Actually the motor was flipped around backwards on this motor mount for some reason. But only loosly attached with just two bolts. So the tag wasnt that easy to see. I did notice the flywheel nut was missing and also had a left hand thread. Hum, hey Steve this is a right hand drive motor, I think....
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The model number is 7008. Steve, I am not sure but that number means it might, could it be a 7 inch motor? A Westbend 700? Wow! This is a lot better motor than whats on the the McCulloch mower. This one might be bad to the bones. Could turn out to be really fast if we are lucky and get it running. This motor is all yours dude. You found this one, so if we get this thing running, it will go on your kart, K? Should be a blast to run when we are out practicing by ourselves some days. Well , maybe if we ever get a kart together that is.
After working all day, I was feeling a little bit drained. Even less motivated. Or maybe just tired and hungry. But Steve wastes no time pulling out all of the Clintons from our pile and brings them inside for us to oogle over. We check over these junk engines carefully and handle them like they are brand new. Now that they are ours we can dream big. There are a few others still left in a pile outside.
I reach in my tee shirt pocket and grab one of the nickels, then toss it over to Steve. Mr Grimes reimbursed us for the drinks. Speaking of, you want one? Steve gets a little too excited at first. Then asks if he can have my nickel too. No, you cant. Steve asks what the date on mine is. I dunno, what difference does it make? I guess thats a no on the pop?
He said he cant tell what the year is on his nickel. I grab the other one out of my pocket and then realize Mr Grimes had given us Buffalo nickels. Way cool. The date on mine was 1938. This was last year of the Buffalo and first year of the Jefferson nickel. Hum, wonder if there was any significance to him giving these to us. Anyway I dont have this one in my coin collection. Well I do now.
Time to get down to some serious business. I grab a rag and dip it in the parts cleaner. Then go around each engine and wipe off years of neglect and dirt covering the model tags. We now officially have in our corral of Clintons, one A-200, two A-400 models, one incomplete A-490, E-65, D-2 and 2 D-35 chainsaws. The three saws are all minus bars, chains and air filters. I had already stripped a lot of saw pieces off of some of these.
My reason to snag up the chainsaws specifically was because of the Tillotson carburetors. I looked on every two cycle engine we tore down for those that might have one. Or anything else we might be able to use. Tillotson carburetors and karts just seem to fit together perfectly.
Steve grabs out one more engine he had pulled from the junk pile and put to the side earlier in the day. I had not seen this one yet. Sitting it next to the Clintons he asks what model it is. I checked it out and noticed it didnt look just like the other ones here. The steel shroud was grey and was similar to a Clinton. Wait this looks more like the yellow engine on you dads McCulloch mower. It should be a Westbend.
I flipped over the engine and looked for a tag to confirm it. After wiping off the grime and dirt...Gee if that sticker was a snake, both of us would have already been bitten. Big obvious checkered flag WESTBEND sticker in plain sight. Sort of hard to miss that one. Even if not looking for it either. Actually the motor was flipped around backwards on this motor mount for some reason. But only loosly attached with just two bolts. So the tag wasnt that easy to see. I did notice the flywheel nut was missing and also had a left hand thread. Hum, hey Steve this is a right hand drive motor, I think....
The model number is 7008. Steve, I am not sure but that number means it might, could it be a 7 inch motor? A Westbend 700? Wow! This is a lot better motor than whats on the the McCulloch mower. This one might be bad to the bones. Could turn out to be really fast if we are lucky and get it running. This motor is all yours dude. You found this one, so if we get this thing running, it will go on your kart, K? Should be a blast to run when we are out practicing by ourselves some days. Well , maybe if we ever get a kart together that is.