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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 855
Registered: 11-2001


Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Looking for photo of the exhaust manifold !

The history site here says engine should be black with polished brass (Bumble Bee).

Any help appreciated ! Richard

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andrew
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Username: andrew

Post Number: 1204
Registered: 11-2001


Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 01:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Richard,

I have pictures of 6 or 7 different McDuff engines and they are all black (except for the copper jacketed two cylinder model). My two cylinder engine is black. I think Keith Billet has a single cylinder that is black (not a Bumble Bee).

The engine in the picture below I believe is Ernie's... correct me if I'm wrong Ernie...

mcduff


I have another picture of a Bumble Bee with an exhaust manifold that doesn't turn aft as Ernie's does. It appears to be a casting that tranisitions to a pipe thread, straight out. Quite a few of the Bumble Bee pictures I have seem to be missing the manifold! I will scan the other one that shows the straight manifold and post it later.

Andrew
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ernie
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Post Number: 572
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 05:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yup it was mine. However I made that exhaust manifold.
I don't know what the original looked like
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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 857
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Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 12:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Andrew

The water pump intake check valve on the green & black McDuff above leaves no room for an aft facing manifold ! Straight out would seem right on this model !
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ernie
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Post Number: 573
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 03:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I made the manifold for a specific boat. I had to use an elbow between the pump and the inlet check valve. When I got the engine it had a hand fabricated flange welded to pipe straight out. It may have been original, however it was for sure not a casting.
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andrew
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Post Number: 1211
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Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 09:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Richard,

I'm afraid these pictures won't help you much, but there are the only ones I can find that show the straight manifold on the Bumblebee. The photos were taken by me in 1997, but I don't recall whose engine it is or where it was taken. Maybe someone will recognize it.
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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 865
Registered: 11-2001


Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 01:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Andrew
Thanks for the photos I know how time consuming it is to dig back through them to find the one you know you took back when. photo enhancing gives me a very good idea of what it looked like.
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Delayed response, have been at the farm in north Florida this past week away from computer, really rural have to drive to highway and head 3 miles either way just to get cell phone to work.
worked on old tractors and mowed property and fields in between downpours. Lifted up canvas on the 1929 Hart-Parr 18 / 36 and stared at the Schebler carb about the size of a Cantaloupe, got to thinking about gas prices and that it would probably take about two dollars worth now just to prime the bowl ??

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