I had this old Briggs Y engine in my junk for years. Im cleaning out now and am wondering what it could've been set up for with the crankshaft nubbed off like that. It looks like a factory cap on the end. The is a plate on the bottom. Did it gear drive directly off the crank in the bottom somehow?
- Thread starter redtom
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wore out
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What's on the other end of the crankshaft?
The links below are to two other engines like yours, and there's a pulley on the flywheel end.
http://www.gravelyguy.com/briggs-amp-stratton-3.html
http://enginemotormodel.com/1935_briggs_stratton_model_y_gas_engine_motor_flywheel.php
greenmech
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- Location
- Lakeville MN
I have a Briggs Y like that. I call it an against the wall engine. It has a pulley on the flywheel side. Maybe a rare one. Ron MN
greenmech
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- Location
- Lakeville MN
A lot of them were for washing machines and other machines. You didn't have to bend over to kick start them. Ron MN
TractorTucker
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I've heard of briggs kick start engines being used for washing machines. I've never heard of anything else they were put on though.
shaun wallace
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Used to find WWs around long time ago, they had kick starters. May have had a WY, think had shaft with rachet and pulley.
David Snipes
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I have one similar to that. My dad was in the US Army Air Force in WW2 and he said it came off a bomb hoist.
tractorguy2
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I think that is a washing machine engine. grandpa had a few of them laying around his farm
Russ from MN
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- Location
- Bemidji MN
We had one like that around the farm, but ours had a shaft, big one, maybe 7/8. Way bigger than the washing machine Briggs that I put on my bicycle. Not sure what the original use of the bigger one was, we never used it for anything, but I played with it, it ran, but little power.
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