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Antique Zenith carb on 1 HP Lauson engine

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Ken Kauffman

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I am restoring a 1948 Lauson horizontal shaft engine. I need a magneto coil for it--the rest of the magneto looks great.

Also I cannot find any information about the carburetor. It is a Zenith with a straight-through horizontal barrel. The choke and excelerator butterflies are vertical in the barrel. It actually looks a lot like Harley Davidson carbs except it has a float bowl below the barrel and the float is a perfect copper sphere the pushes up on the needle via a rocker shaft that is not attached at all to the float.

It may be Zenith 10AY5 or a 21OA5. I found those two listed as Zeniths that were used on 1948 TSC 703 engines.

Can anyone give me any information about a magneto coil and about this carburetor?
 
have you a model number of the engine or the part number of the coil? I have a small horde of small engine parts as well as a few parts books on some of the old small engines. bill
 
the parts book shows no less than 7 different magnetos used on the 703 engine, any idea of the make of the mag or the part number of the whole mag? Bill
 
Thanks for the rapid response. The flywheel on this engine is an Eisemann 61-DA, serial 48-L . I may have found a coil that will work. It's from an Evinrude engine by Lauson and it appears to have the right shape for this odd stator.

Do you know anything about the Zenith carb I described? It is very small and I have found no imformation specifically about it. It has two sets of numbers stamped into the edge of intake flange--6-11 and 10746-- but there are no other numbers on it. It has "Zenith Made in USA" embossed on the barrel, but there are no other markings and there is no attached tag or place that looks like a tag attachment.
 
Ken, If you send me an email I can send you a scan from the parts manual showing what I think your engine is so we can get on the same page. bill
 
That would be great. I would be interested in a coil if you have the right one because I am not sure the Evinrude coil will fit even though the picture looks good.

I do not need the carb--I have gone through it and cleaned it up. I don't think anything in it needed to be replaced.

Yesterday I found a picture of the carb for the first time. It's on a British site. They say the carb was used on Reo and Continental engines. Mine is a Lauson and it surely looks original.

Ken
 
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