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jb_castagnos
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Username: jb_castagnos

Post Number: 1134
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 08:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This engine found me today. I had seen pictures of it several years ago, didn't know they existed. The guy I bought it from found it in an old cypress boat at a sawmill site in the swamp. It's an open crank 4 stroke, big engine. Atmospheric intake, brass rod, had 5 oilers on it. 20" flywheel, 30" high, 9" across the head.




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jb_castagnos
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Username: jb_castagnos

Post Number: 1135
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 08:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Another picture.
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jim_parrott
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Username: jim_parrott

Post Number: 102
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 08:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

JB,

That is awesome. I was just wondering about what happened to that engine the other day. Glad he found the right home for it. Can't wait to hear it pop!

Jim
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ernie
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Username: ernie

Post Number: 2219
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 08:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If anyone cam make it run you can!
Nice project!
Have fun with it
Ernie
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 3773
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 09:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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A hundred and three year old southern Louisiana
Marine Engine couldn't find a better home !
Confident that smoke will exit the exhaust soon !

Wonder if a sheet steel type of pan may have covered the bottom end ?

J B great find and an exciting old Marine engine,
hope we can find some info about its heritage ?

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kkinney
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Username: kkinney

Post Number: 34
Registered: 04-2011
Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 10:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Beautiful engine. Can't wait to see it run.
Keith
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jb_castagnos
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Username: jb_castagnos

Post Number: 1136
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 - 10:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks.
Richard, I wondered about a pan, no signs of screw holes yet, something may show after clean up.
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kkinney
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Username: kkinney

Post Number: 35
Registered: 04-2011
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 12:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So do you think the 1913 is the date or SN?
Keith
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gregoryan
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Username: gregoryan

Post Number: 131
Registered: 09-2004


Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 04:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

See if there were any photos by previous owner, in it's previous installation, that would be precious!
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jb_castagnos
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Username: jb_castagnos

Post Number: 1137
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 07:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Guessing 1913 is the date Keith.
I took a few more pictures, removed the head today, the exhaust valve was closed, hoped for the best, expected the worst, got what I expected. Heated the nuts, they came off easy, head was easy to lift also. The bolts holding the cylinder to the base were easy to break loose. Sad thing is I have to move it to the back burner, priorities.


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keith
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Username: keith

Post Number: 457
Registered: 02-2002


Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 10:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Definitely the best guy for the project. Can only anticipate the process and result.
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billschaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 644
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 09:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

it looks like it could use a while in either molasses or electrolysis.
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richardday
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Username: richardday

Post Number: 1122
Registered: 11-2003


Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 07:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It has found a good home. Good luck looking forward to seeing it at the CMM show.
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miro
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Username: miro

Post Number: 843
Registered: 11-2001


Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 02:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If that engine had been sunk in one of the lakes in Muskoka , it would have been like swiss cheese by now. The water is acidic because of all the oak and pine trees.
The good part is that we do not have zebra mussels.

I second all the notes about gettin' 'er goin'

Ahhh - priorities . . . ain't it always that way when you got a neat project ahead of you
Miro
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raa
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Username: raa

Post Number: 112
Registered: 02-2007


Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 07:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

JB that is one neat engine and you are one lucky guy. Looks like a slight bit of rust, should be a easy one to restore next winter.

cheers

Dick
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rbprice
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Username: rbprice

Post Number: 541
Registered: 11-2001


Posted on Wednesday, February 03, 2016 - 02:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What a magnificent find JB - a very powerful incentive to get down there in March.

As so many have said, the engine has found the right home to assure its future.

Bob
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 3775
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Saturday, February 27, 2016 - 06:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Received this letter back from

Louisiana Division/City Archives New Orleans

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Mystery engine still a Mystery!

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jb_castagnos
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Username: jb_castagnos

Post Number: 1145
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Saturday, February 27, 2016 - 04:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for taking the time to research this Richard. It seems like the company was fairly stable if they went through the trouble of casting tags. I have to read Email at the shop, cable is out at the house, one of the tornados passed about 4 miles from me, a lot of devastation. It was an F3, much stronger than we usually see.

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