Re: Wisconsin 4 cylinder

Posted by Jon H on February 05, 2005 at 12:08:44 from (69.26.17.99):

In Reply to: Wisconsin 4 cylinder posted by Kevin (FL) on February 04, 2005 at 18:36:40:

I used the larger flathead V4 to run an old Electric Machine 3 ph generator with a belt drive. It had no pto,just direct crankshaft drive.The governor was active enough to maintain fairly close to 60 cycle AC,It was nice to not have to deal with a liquid cooling system. The engine was one from a pair of Versatile 103 swathers we ran untill we wore them out. The engines outlasted the machines. They are fuel hogs,but ran forever with 50 hr oil changes,they usually needed little to no makeup oil between changes. One good feature atleast on the ag engines was a standard cylinder head temp switch that would kill the ignition if they overheated.
Many times those old swathers would shut down when being worked in dirty conditions. I would find the cooling air screen totally clogged. Clean the screen,wait 15 min for the engine to cool and reset the overheat switch,then back to work. Many of these engines,especially the little ones on big swathers that overloaded them, were damaged when the owners would disconnect the overheat switches to prevent shutdown. Another thing that caused a great deal of trouble was storing them outside or in damp conditions. stuck valves were usually the result. Most of the broken heads and blown head gaskets were the result of not oiling the distributor advance and having it stick in the full advanced position. This over advanced ignition timing would cause terrible detonation at low to mid rpm with a heavy load,which caused a lot of split heads and blown head gaskets.This was a cronic problem with Wisconsin powered Bobcat skid loaders parked in damp cattle barns in winter.

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