The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse 1.5hp hit/miss engine

[skippyelwell]

Working away every afternoon when I get home, got down to the last part, the kerosene tank, it is pretty much Swiss cheese. The oiler came out well.
Even with the orange paint applied over top of grease it still took many hours to remove it all.
Underneath, was the original dark green and the black lead/carbon primer under that.

The cylinder bore is pretty nice, smoothed out the crank journals with 800grit, then 1200 and finished up with with a heavy cut automotive paint compound.
The flywheels are 17" in dia. so the lathe and mill were out of the question, but the drill press can handle them.
The first 10 min was just a cloud of rust dust.

 

[skippyelwell]

This engine was suppose to be the coming winters project but I can see now that I'll have it mostly finished by the end of the month. So I started perusing the FB marketplace and found a guy fairly close to me who had a few hit/miss engines for sale.
It turned out to be the same guy I bought the Fairbanks-Morse from last week, what are the odds of that?
Apparently he inherited 30 hit/miss engines from a relative a number of years back and is now getting down to the last few.

He made me an offer I couldn't pass up, I've been bitten by the bug. Prices for these engines have always been high but in the last few years the prices are starting to come down for the barn fresh examples.
The two I p/u yesterday are about as barn fresh as they come.

A 2hp Timothy Eaton engine and a 2.5hp Empire.

 

[Proxule]

I use https://www.napacanada.com/en/p/FPG2499 for headgaskets,
Or the other option if you can locate it is garlock non metallic of same or similar thickness.

Nice progress!

 

[Ironman]

Not sure what I'm going to do for a head gasket, the one that is on it is homemade but out of what I'm not sure.
It is stiff but there is no metal in it and definitely some asbestos coating on either side.

I think that is barley in the exhaust port.

Try this, meant for exhaust gaskets. I used it for a headgasket.

https://www.napacanada.com/en/search?text=FPG2499&referer=v2

 

[Proxule]

Try this, meant for exhaust gaskets. I used it for a headgasket.

https://www.napacanada.com/en/search?text=FPG2499&referer=v2

Beat you to the punch.

 

[Ironman]

Saw that as soon as I posted🙂

 

[Junque]

Great old engines; made a lot of farm lives not only easier, but possible. All I have is an Eaton badged Waterloo Boy 1.5hp M&B It's true that like so many hobbies, the last people who had life experience or had elders with life experience of this tech, are passing away rapidly. Libraries burning all over town as the saying goes. Smokstak is shadow of what it was 10 or 15 years ago.