I.D. this engine

Smalltowner · Jun 21, 2020

Trying to identify this engine for a friend.

wore out · Jun 21, 2020

It's a Wisconsin TFD or THD (or a similar model).

Smalltowner · Jun 21, 2020

I never knew Wisconsin made a 2 cylinder, or am I not seeing all the plug wires? I haven’t seen it up close. I was thinking maybe it was a JD engine.

used red MN · Jun 21, 2020

Or as we sometimes referred to them as WISH-consins as in wish it would start. Though we had a V-4 model on a grain auger that seemed to defy the stereo type.

Bob Harvey · Jun 21, 2020

I'm going to guess a JD -LUC.

D Slater · Jun 21, 2020

Had one of these on the farm back in the day. 2 cylinder Wisconsin, yes the wheel on crank was how you started it.

used red MN · Jun 21, 2020

Like in the link, search with the 3 letter designation as wore out posted.
THD model

Smalltowner · Jun 21, 2020

Yes I’ve seen and used several 4 cylinder ones on balers and such but never knew they made a 2 cylinder.
Thanks for the information you guys. I’m gonna tell my friend to keep the engine. The baler is going to scrap.

Mike(NEOhio) · Jun 21, 2020

Wisconsin TF, TFD, TH, THD, TJD. All basically the same bore and stroke. TJD fires 180 degrees apart. All the other are alternate firing. The D indicates stellite valve seats.

Bob Bancroft · Jun 21, 2020

JD didn't make an air cooled version, did they?

NH even used a two cylinder Wisconsin in one of their first, little, skid-steers. Now my memory is waking up, and I think they made a single cylinder- Robin?

D Slater · Jun 21, 2020

Uncle and dad had a v-4 on a silage chopper. Didn't shut it down after morning start. If something happened that it needed shut off it was down for some time. They got so P off that they got another one just like it but with a Continental engine. Other set in the shed and was used for parts. Hand crank on both.

jal-SD · Jun 21, 2020

We had a single cylinder on a Koyker elevator that would start with two wraps of the rope around the starter pulley after setting all winter. Use it to elevate corn in the fall, leave it set until combining time, wrap the rope, give it 2 or 3 pulls at most & away it would go. Way different than the V-4 on uncle's combine. Start it in the morning and never shut it off until you quit for the day. If it quit before you were ready, you were done for the day any way.

Paul from MI · Jun 21, 2020

I baled for a neighbor using his Case baler. Needles and knotters were on the side of the chamber making twine run from side to side. A real pain to load behind it. It had a two-cylinder Wisconsin, always started good hot or cold.

Billy Shafer · Jun 21, 2020

You just need the B F H to make them start.

Wheat47 · Jun 21, 2020

If they're tuned right, they'll start pretty good.
Used to overhaul 2 & 4 cyl. Wisconsins. To start them after a fresh overhaul,
we used a big slow drill with a modified crank in the chuck.
After that if they didn't start on the 2nd crank, we felt bad.
Carb kit and points, plugs, and condenser were a standard part
of an overhaul.

shaun wallace · Jun 21, 2020

Seems like a lot of them still in use or being wanted. Looks like a 214.

cdmn · Jun 21, 2020

My brother the mechanic, always says the farmers would put up with a lot of cranking
and frustration before they'd pay a few bucks for a magneto tune-up. If they'd done it
routinely every spring they'd have had good luck. I don't think we ever looked around for
a higher quality magneto, and I don't remember using starting fluid to get them going.
It wasn't fun when a shear pin let go on the Super 77.

When they came with distributors and electric start, heard no complaints. But that cost
substantially, like 100 dollars for distributor, generator, starter, and battery. I used
to listen to an old neighbor tell me about how wonderful that the self-starter was invented. He farmed with a 1939 Farmall H.

fixerupper · Jun 21, 2020

I got fed up with a Wisconsin four cylinder hand crank when it would not start hot and poured water on the carb and manifold. The steam came boiling up but it did start after pouring water on it. Didnt seem to hurt the engine. I did not make a common practice out of it.

Leroy · Jun 21, 2020

Had that same engine on a NH 66 baler. After found out take shroud off every day and blow dirt out no more starting problems. They build up dirt in the cooling fins and engine overheats Get it clean so does not overheat and start easy. How many of you that had starting problems ever took that shrod off and blew things out? I dought very many ever did that. And wisconsin did make a single cylinder long before the name Robin was thought of. And Wisconsin did make automobile engines back in teenes or twentys. If you were not in the dirt all day you did not have starting problems.

wore out · Jun 21, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:11:26 06/21/20) Had that same engine on a NH 66 baler. After found out take shroud off every day and blow dirt out no more starting problems. They build up dirt in the cooling fins and engine overheats Get it clean so does not overheat and start easy. How many of you that had starting problems ever took that shrod off and blew things out? I dought very many ever did that. And wisconsin did make a single cylinder long before the name Robin was thought of. And Wisconsin did make automobile engines back in teenes or twentys. If you were not in the dirt all day you did not have starting problems.

As you likely know, "Robin = manufactured by Fugi = "Subaru".

Wheat47 · Jun 21, 2020

Yes, it was amazing how much a Mag tune-up helped!!

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