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Wisconsin engines:How I learned to swear. My uncle had a filed of white beans pulled and ready to combine when a wind picked up and rolled the rows together up against the fence,worst mess I ever seen. So My Dad and my brother and I went out to help,I was 8. We pulled wads of beans off the fence and tried to make a few rows,then Uncle Roy would take his Case combine with the Wisconsin power and do a couple of rows and we would start over trying to get this wad od crop off the fence. Well,the Wisconsin got hot and a big wad of beans going through stalled it. My uncle did everything to restart it to no avail..and I heard every swear word that was ever thought upand after about an hour that engine started and we did in fact save his crop with an awful lot of work..%#+$#! Wisconsin Engines! And that"s a true story and I miss my uncle Roy!
 
My theory is that the carburetor nested between the cylinder banks gets too hot, especially when the engine is shut down after hard running. The boiled-off fumes flood the engine. For starting within an hour after hot shutdown, use full throttle, no choke and lots of cranking.
 
My uncle had a baler with the Wisconsin engine on it. Once it got started he let it run all day until he was finished with it. We knew it would never start when it was hot. One day my cousin came to the house and said "Pa's down there swearin like a pirate." It had stalled. My SIL bought a JD baler with a WI, engine same deal finally to out the Champion plugs and replaced with AC's and it would start after shutting it down.
 
I always thought it was just ours. We had one on a baler in 1958, same deal, wouldn't start hot. Dad had the mag off, took it to an old mag guy, still same deal. We finally did the same thing- let it idle while we stopped for lunch, and never shut it down until we were done.

The thing finally blew up with about 50 bales to go on the last field of the season, in a field about 5 miles from home. I think the baler sat there for a couple of years, until some friend of dad's finally scrapped it. It was a Case hand-tie, and I think all of us had enjoyed about as much of it as we could stand.
 
I had 1 of those on a davis trencher, you will need the serial # as they put at least 7 different crankshafts in them.
 
Just do a search for V465 Wisconsin and you should get quite a few places selling them, including some on Ebay. You"ll find some plain old used engines, and some that have been rebuilt and look like new. Reason I know that is I was looking for one awhile back myself when I thought I was going to have to change out another similarly sized engine of another brand.

Too, if you want to spend a mint, you can buy a brand new one from Wisconsin, either the old style, or one of the new fuel injected ones.
 
When I was a Kid, early 50's A guy would come in and bale our wheat straw. I remember them leaving it run. Baler pulled with an old jeep. I think that is when they came out with seatbelts. LOL
 
Last year I spent $750 on my Wis. 2 cylinder, it was re-bored, new pistons-rings, half rod inserts (did not turn crank), fuel pump and we reused-made some gaskets. Mechanic is competent and discourages continuing using Wis. because of parts cost and availability of people who know the engine. A friend recommended replacing the Wis. with a diesel from the surplus center in Lincoln, NE, because of space and attachments to Wis. I did what I did.
 
(quoted from post at 12:39:08 04/08/14) Covington Welding . Covington Iowa .don"t have a number sorry , think guys name is Del.
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I tried finding this place and it says its in palo iowa tried calling but lady said it was wrong number.
 
Identical problem with our New Holland's Wisconsin engine. If we baled before lunch and shut it down, we finally learned to take a longer lunch.
 
There's some folks in the Twin cities (Minnesota) that do Wisconsin engines, always used to have a few 4 cylinders on Fleabay
 
There are usually some for sale on e-bay, under
category,"Wisconsin Engines"
And here's a tip: I do a lot of Wisconsin engines
and get most of the common parts--gasket kits,
carb. kits, fuel pumps, piston rings, Valves,
Air and oil filters, from NAPA Auto Parts.
 
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