Another Chop Mod Ramrod - Beginnings
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I'll tell ya I did learn I should have just started with the stripping disc rather than wire wheel and brushes. I'm still getting familiar with my angle grinder, so the recipe now is a humid night outside covered in paint stripper, and then angle grinder with stripping disc followed by 120 flap disc will get this particular stage done about as efficiently as one could ask.
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I'm changing engine plans from that huge 5hp down to this 3.5hp., so long as my new short tank will accommodate the carb off the 3.5hp. I'm not building this bike for speed anyway. This smaller block relieves some of the space pressure, and maybe I could even fit a comet TC to make up for sacrificed hp torque. I understand it has an overdrive function I've yet to learn about.
This tiller motor must have fallen into a swamp I think. I bought it with thick mud caking up everything under the shroud. Still got some cleaning to do to the coil, fins and behind the flywheel, but it'll run, right?
This tiller motor must have fallen into a swamp I think. I bought it with thick mud caking up everything under the shroud. Still got some cleaning to do to the coil, fins and behind the flywheel, but it'll run, right?
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I'm changing engine plans from that huge 5hp down to this 3.5hp., so long as my new short tank will accommodate the carb off the 3.5hp. I'm not building this bike for speed anyway. This smaller block relieves some of the space pressure, and maybe I could even fit a comet TC to make up for sacrificed hp torque. I understand it has an overdrive function I've yet to learn about.
This tiller motor must have fallen into a swamp I think. I bought it with thick mud caking up everything under the shroud. Still got some cleaning to do to the coil, fins and behind the flywheel, but it'll run, right?
This tiller motor must have fallen into a swamp I think. I bought it with thick mud caking up everything under the shroud. Still got some cleaning to do to the coil, fins and behind the flywheel, but it'll run, right?
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For anyone following, I want to build a stock-ish Briggs out of this 3.5hp I/C, and it has the Welsh plug version of what I think is a 5hp species of carb. But the new tank I bought is for the carb with a pull choke on the rear of the carb tube.
So here's my question to you seasoned flathead folks:
Would either of these carbs be better than the other?
I may have the right carb for this new tank laying around already. On the other hand, I could try and find a different 1qt tank if the Welsh plug carb is way better or whatever.
So here's my question to you seasoned flathead folks:
Would either of these carbs be better than the other?
I may have the right carb for this new tank laying around already. On the other hand, I could try and find a different 1qt tank if the Welsh plug carb is way better or whatever.
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