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Andrew Menkart
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Username: andrew

Post Number: 1099
Registered: 11-2001


Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 10:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I received the following note and photos by email. I am posting them here and will ask Colin to register and post additional info and photos. Hopefully he will post some photos of the boat as well!

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Hi There,
I am emailing from Victoria, British Columbia with some pictures of a power plant in my wooden boat. I have had this wonderful thing transport me and my family to Ruxton Island every summer for almost 20 years, and I have a sneaking hunch this engine may outlast me. Seventeen years ago some old boys at the Chemainus wharf said it was a Palmer. Can you look at the pictures I have attached to this email and confirm if it is indeed a Palmer. It has a Z-3.1 or Z-31 in the head casting, this is the only mark of identification I could find on it. Thank you.
Cheers for now,
Colin MacLock




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Ernie
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Username: ernie

Post Number: 1294
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 03:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's not Palmer. I wonder what it is?
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Lawrence T Wolfe
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Username: larry_from_maryland

Post Number: 441
Registered: 07-2003


Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 06:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Could be a wisconsen block?
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Ernie
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Username: ernie

Post Number: 1295
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Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 06:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hummm take a good look at the breather. And the 2 bolts that appear to do nothing would have been the gas tank bracket? Briggs? Look close the intake and carb are Briggs Also Briggs used flywheel mags where Wisconsin used an external mag? Didn't Briggs make a model Z?
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audie
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Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 09:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It looks a lot like my United States Marine engine which is a water cooled Briggs. The water pump setup is the same and the breather and the shape of the cylinder also match. My engine is a 1-3/4 h.p and this looks to be eight or ten horse.
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Roger DiRuscio
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Username: solarrog

Post Number: 457
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Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 09:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I believe it is the Lauson/Tecumseh water cooled engine, I have one on a marine genset.
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Roger DiRuscio
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Post Number: 458
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Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 09:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Now the more I look at it, it does resemble the Briggs block.
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Andrew Menkart
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Posted on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 - 09:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Additional info and photos from Colin. He is having trouble getting registered but I will try and help him.


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Thank you Andrew,
.... I have sent you a few pictures of the Boat "Woodrow" and one of the engine with the brass expansion tank behind it hanging from the inwale. It has a Briggs carb (I think) and a Briggs clutch. Some old boys date the engine around the late 20's or early 30's. I sure would like to know.
Colin MacLock




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Lawrence T Wolfe
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Username: larry_from_maryland

Post Number: 442
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Posted on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 - 12:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Briggs zz 3"by 3 1/4 stroke made 1931 to 1940 23ci. Could this be a water cooled version?
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Ernie
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Username: ernie

Post Number: 1296
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Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I could very well be a Falcon. I have an air cooled Falcon which is a Briggs with different oil pan. This is neat to see with a water cooled cylinder.
Universal also used Briggs parts to make a small water cooled inboard.

By the way she is a real pretty boat
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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 369
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 01:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Whoever repainted may have taken the name tag off of it. Do you know who? Also if you were ever to pull the flywheel, it should say who made the magneto.
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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 370
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Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 01:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is picture of a Briggs & Stratton model Z I found on the net. Looks correct to me.

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mike schreiber
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Username: wrenchguy

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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 12:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

briggs supplied air and watercooled parts to united states motors corp. the fist engine pictured doesn't have the marine oil sump like the last one pictured. i suspect it started out as a water cooled genset for a boat with its standard briggs z oil pan. note the one in the car with its engine stringer mounts and deeper capicty sump. i wonder if the one in the car has reverse gear? good luck.
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Robert
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Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 01:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have an air-cooled version of this engine with the same reverse gear attachment and the "marine oil sump". It is badged as shown.US Motors badged Briggs

Nice boat, you should put her in the Classic Boat Show. Time for a keel cooler perhaps?
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mikeschreiber
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Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 01:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

robert, u have a briggs model am, it was built august 1943. its about 1 1/4 hp, the "m" means it has a thrust bearing setup and marine oil sump. there are no reverse gears shown in this post. the setup on the first engine is netural foward only. i'd like to see more photos of yours. i also question the united states marine engine posted in the canoe engine post as being a "2m-1". i ain't seen one begining with "2", normally the briggs model letter was the first letter in that code. briggs models "a, b, i, h, and z are some of the engines that were marineized. if a "g" was used after the "m" then it came with a briggs built reverse gear box. briggs didn't start building reverse gears till 1941. here's a pic of my 1944 us "bm-1"
[IMG]http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n210/wrenchguy49/usbm1.jpg[/IMG]
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Robert
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Post Number: 421
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Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 03:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mike, you're right about the gear of course; my mistake. Thanks for the info and here are a few more shots; all I have at the moment. This is "as found" before pressure washing! I see it was setup just to drive directly with a Lovejoy coupling, but maybe that was after it's marine career was over!Briggs 1

Briggs 2
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Robert
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Username: robert

Post Number: 422
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Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 03:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Inside looked a lot better than outside. One question: did B&S and US Motors continue to supply the civilian market during the war, or were these engines built for military use and then surplused after the war?

Briggs 3

Briggs 4
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mikeschreiber
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Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 05:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

that thing don't look bad!!! I don't know about military, i was suprised about mine being a 44. you'll note no alumiunm sump, shroud or head. some before the war ones had alumiumn parts. i agree with you about it not being marine in its later days. it should have flame arrester. they're hard to find that size. good luck. where are you.

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