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John Davis
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 650
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 12:36 pm: | 
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Posting these photo's for someone. Anyone know the engine manufacturer?
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John Davis
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 651
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 02:13 pm: |
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This engine above was installed in this Michigan Steel boat. MSBC was known for installing DEW engines in their boats & re tagging the engine with their on brass tag but they also used engines from other manufactures located locally around the Detroit area. Maybe a Termaat & Monahan engine?
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John Davis
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 652
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 03:29 pm: |
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A few more photo's.
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miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 1244
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2023 - 10:42 am: |
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That boat must have been very "wet" - waves from any angle washing over the deck into the laps of the passengers.
An inland boat for cruising on sheltered waters.
Still a nice looking boat.
miro |
Jim Parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 226
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2023 - 11:37 am: |
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Nice motorboat combination. Looks like two original fuel mixers being used as check valves for the carburetor cobbled to them. No idea on the engine id, Looks like about 4-5hp.
Good Luck
Jim |
John Davis
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 653
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2023 - 01:08 pm: |
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After doing some research & looking back at some of my old DEW literature I think this engine may be one of the very 1st early DEW twin engines produced. Old literature shows that some of the DEW twins did have this 2 piece flanged type of crankcase with 3 mounting holes on each side of the crankcase. The original exhaust manifold is missing & someone has made a homemade one. The two mixers have been turned upside down & a homemade intake manifold made & attached in order to run a single carb using the mixers as check valves. For some odd reason this engine has a total of six water inlets/outlets. one on the top of each cylinder & two on each cylinder front & back & they are all bronze threaded inserts. Anyone know why there would be six water inlets/outlets ?
See new photo's below.
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John Davis
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 654
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2023 - 01:12 pm: |
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Few more photo's
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John Davis
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 655
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2023 - 01:43 pm: |
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The boat was manufactured by Michigan Steel Boat Company. This appears to be one of MSBC's 18 foot automobile boats that has been modified slightly. It could be ordered with a engine displacement anywhere from 2hp all the way up to 15 hp. |
Chris Spring
Senior Member
Username: chris_spring
Post Number: 279
Registered: 02-2019
| | Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2023 - 10:01 am: |
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I love the lines of the boat.
Cheers! |
B. Goss
Senior Member
Username: bgoss
Post Number: 284
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2023 - 08:22 pm: |
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John- keep those oilers tucked under your pillow at night. I think that they may be worth more than the engine.
Blair |
