I rescued this DC AWF in Feb 2003. Refurbishing was finished 39 months later May 2006. It came from Minnesota.
The owner said his intention to fix up this DC had been foiled by him getting too old. Therefore, he started to part it out. Only the mag was missing when I rescued it.
I installed a distributor, spark plugs, clean the carb, etc. It started right up and immediately ran good.
All the engine’s internals checked out good. It plowed a little soon after startup and it was determined the radiator was too plugged on the inside to cool adequately. I had to rod out the core from the bottom.
It got professionally sandblasted, and primed like the other. After being rescued for 3-1/2 years, it looked like this picture.
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