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Dave Boboc
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 01:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anyone have info on converting a Briggs & Stratton for marine use? I know it was popular to use these motors for small boats at one time, and on this site it shows that there were Briggs engines from the factory which were identified as marine engines on the data plate.
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Richard Day
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 05:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

They work great as long as they can get cooling air and will run all day on very little gas. I had a 5/6 hsp in a 19 foot Bank dory back in 1946. Ran like a top, no clutch, no reverse gear, straight drive. Still have the shaft, stuffing box, and prop. The dory was made by the Hiram Lowell Boat works in Amesbury, Mass. Cost $200.00 and lasted for twenty years until "friends" let it fill with water and rot in the woods. Would do about 7-8 knots and a very seaworthy boat. Rope start and no messing about with water cooling and all that good stuff. Just a great boat.
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Bill Schaller
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 06:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

you need a flame arrestor, and you dont' need the governor.
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Bill Schaller
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 06:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

you need a flame arrestor, and you don't need the governor.
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Audie
Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 09:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A friend of mine here has an old Briggs 1 hp in a Pirogue that was given to him. It looks just like the old WM series Briggs. He doesn't use it but it does still run. Really neat set up.
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john
Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 11:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hi from new zealand
can send photo converted twin will run all day at high rpm
made from two 3 hp 8o series engines
regards
john chamberlain

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