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    To scrap or not scrap compression is the question

    Pulled the head last night. Have a combination of things happening. The headgasket was intact. The head was rusty and the valves were not seating properly, but nothing a wire wheel couldn't clean up. Two of the three cylinders didn't look to bad but the number one piston wasn't scraping the...
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    To scrap or not scrap compression is the question

    Used atf and mystic oi. Slowly rocked the engine till she freed upl
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    To scrap or not scrap compression is the question

    I have a 1973 ford 3000/4000 warner swasey forklift. It was seized when I bought it. It became unseized so we started working on it, We couldn't get it to fire consistently. We set them timing numerous times we poured gasoline down the cylinder head still no fire, so we decided to do a...
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    Ford industrial tractor serial numbers.

    I have a warner swasey forklift. That comes back as a dahlmer forklift. Model number for LG-1201-4 Serial number is 12L-1365 I need a throw out bearing for it. Transmission number is 02nn-7006Dp Engine Serial number is C479246 Can anyone tell me what I hwve?
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    Timing on a warner swasey forklift

    It is a gas engine. Valves look good. Slop was back and forth on the cam. It's supposed to be. 001--.006 ours is .75-.1. Also when we dug a little deeper there was a chunk missing by the keyway on the crankshaft. Digging further into this mystery this week...
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    Timing on a warner swasey forklift

    We can lineup the marks. Just fine, but we could never get. It's run and we couldn't even get it to fire on ether consistently
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    Timing on a warner swasey forklift

    We did try to start it . It would give us a little white smoke out of the exhaust about every 48 to 52 rotations. Even when we put ethere in, it didn't light that on fire right away or at all, so we tore it back open again and we found that the cam shaft has a lot of slop in it. We are...
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    Timing on a warner swasey forklift

    Still having timing issues. Is there a timing mark on the flywheel? And is there a viewing port?
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    Timing on a warner swasey forklift

    Is there s formula to figure out how many revolutions it takes to realign?
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    Timing on a warner swasey forklift

    I have a warner swasey forklift. It has a ford three cylinder engine. What would cause the timing gears To come out of alignment? I reset them two times to the proper marks and then spun the engine By hand and each time they kept moving 1,2,3 teeth out of sync on each rotation? I've been...
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