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ron harper
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Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i just acquired this old straight miniature 4 cylinder flat head engine with manual 3 speed transmission w/reverse. transmission gear box says T73-1 warner gear co. munice indiana. all over the engine it says tenual. stamped on the block is tenual D1347,on top of head has 01365 stamped. does anybody out there know what this engine was made for and where was it made? and roughly what year? i believe its a 1920's-1930's inboard? i dont know i cant find anything about it,can you help me out please.thanx for your time. i want to restore it but first i have to find out what i have.
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ron harper
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Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 01:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)







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Eric Schulz
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Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 06:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ron, I'm surprised that no one has answered your question. Although I have never seen one, I would say this engine came from an American Bantam car. Do a Google search.
Perhaps I am wrong, but I don't think boats used 3 speed gear boxes.
The name Tenual is the brand name of The National Bronze & Aluminum Foundry Co, Cleveland.

Eric
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ron harper
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Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 06:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

thanx eric,i will do some more research.
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Bruce Hall
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Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 08:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Although an auto engine pictured-Brennan Engine company in Syracuse NY did use the Bantom 4cyl in some of their Brennan IMP series marine engine (roughly rated at 25 hp)offerings/applications
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ron harper
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Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 09:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

this little engine is pretty wild,it has distributor running off a starter it appears to me that it has 2 starters.
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ron harper
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Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 09:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

and the intake manifold is connected to exhaust manifold,pretty strange.if i cant find out anything about it to repair/rebuild it im probably going to sell it.
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Lawrence T Wolfe
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Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 12:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thats a gear drive generator with the distributor. The same set up is used on wisconsen 2 cylinder engines, that don't use mags. Haveing the intake and exhaust connected is common on old tractors and trucks.
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ron harper
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Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 04:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

oh ok
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William Schaller
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Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 10:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ron, If you have the original larger pictures without the white lines, send them to me, and I will repost them so we can see better.

Bill Schaller
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ron harper
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Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2008 - 06:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ok,i will Bill Schaller. thank you.
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William Schaller
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Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 - 10:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

here are a few of Ron's photos without the line. Ron, if you resend me the original picture 133 without the line, I will post that, too.





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ron harper
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Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 - 04:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

MUCH BETTER THANX BILL
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Andrew Helgeson
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Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 - 02:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is an American Austin Engine. 1930-1932. American Austins were built in Butler, PA until 1934 (late), then after re-organizing, the American Bantam Car Co. - 1938-1940, the "inventors" of the JEEP.
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miro forest
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Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 08:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't think this is a marine engine.
The exhaust manifold casting is pointed upward and there is no provision for water cooling the exhaust gases by injecting the outlet of the cooling water.
The 3 speed transmission tells me it is for land based use - marine engines have Forward - neutral and reverse only - no need for multiple gear ratios.

But it is a very interesting artifact.

miro
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Laurie Derwent
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Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 06:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It seems this question going back to 2008 has resurfaced. The use of car engines in boats (and not just for ski boats) was fairly common in my youth in Oz. While many had factory conversions including gearboxes and heat exchangers some were more basic. My uncles had a 4 cyl Jeep motor with Jeep gearbox in their boat used to tow oyster punts for many years. The family folk lore is that they only changed down to low gear and opened the throttle once. The boat took off and left the two blokes who were standing at the stern in the water. Generally the motors were run at low revs to avoid thrust problems.
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David Coe
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Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It appears that the last use for this engine was a a stationary engine with a belt drive. Possibly to run a conveyor or some other piece of farm equipment. If this was last used in a marine application I would expect to see a wedge shaped adapter between the updraft carb and the intake manifold so the carb would sit level when the motor was in a boat.
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Matt Morehouse
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Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 - 11:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That was my first impression when I saw that flat belt pulley. It looks like it has lived on that mount for years and that is certainly not a marine mount.

Lack of a water cooled exhaust doesn't disqualify it as marine, it could have been dry stack on a small workboat.
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Matt Morehouse
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Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 - 11:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just took another look. That three speed looks to be bolted to a marine tranny. This might argue that it was originally a drystack marine unit.
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Dale L James
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Posted on Friday, April 01, 2011 - 01:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's a 1930-32 American Austin engine and transmission, looks like it may have been used to run a piece of machinery
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Carol Peck
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Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 03:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There is a Brennan engine similar to the one in the picture posted, lying along the shore of Lake Ontario, Wolcott, NY, at Chimney Bluffs State Park. I saw it on July 19, 2011. If anyone is interested in it, I can give more detail so you can find it. It does look to be quite heavy, but if someone contacted the State Parks Commission they could probably get it out for you.

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