So I was given an 8n that last ran about 3 years ago or so I'm told. It is in pretty rough shape overall, especially the sheet metal Has been outside most of its life as near as I can tell. It is a 1952 with side mount distributor.
I have been doing quite a bit of reading on the model and have done some work to it. Someone had started the conversion to 12V, I found some writeups on line and finished that up this weekend.
I checked the compression, all 4 cyls have about 115 PSI. It sparks and will try to run if you shoot some starter fluid to it. I took the carb off and cleaned it out, I think it will need to be rebuilt, but while I had it off I dropped the small drain plug from the bottom of the carb. It had a through hole and looked like a jet to me. The hole was clogged so I removed it to clean it out and lost it in the grass. The location of the part is the bottom right hand image on the 8n carb rebuild page on this site. I tried to embed a link, but that isn't allowed for new guys apparently.
Can somebody tell me where I can get one of these plugs? Do they come in the rebuild kits? A part number would be great!
When we were turning it over, oil started leaking from the front right side of the engine near what I think is the govenor assembly. I'm hoping that is just a gasket issue, but is that a common place for oil leaks?
I have lots more questions, but I will just ask one more now. The gas tank is clogged and can't get any fuel to flow. It has some old fuel in it. I have the hood off, is there some trick to getting the tank out so I can drain it?
I have been doing quite a bit of reading on the model and have done some work to it. Someone had started the conversion to 12V, I found some writeups on line and finished that up this weekend.
I checked the compression, all 4 cyls have about 115 PSI. It sparks and will try to run if you shoot some starter fluid to it. I took the carb off and cleaned it out, I think it will need to be rebuilt, but while I had it off I dropped the small drain plug from the bottom of the carb. It had a through hole and looked like a jet to me. The hole was clogged so I removed it to clean it out and lost it in the grass. The location of the part is the bottom right hand image on the 8n carb rebuild page on this site. I tried to embed a link, but that isn't allowed for new guys apparently.
Can somebody tell me where I can get one of these plugs? Do they come in the rebuild kits? A part number would be great!
When we were turning it over, oil started leaking from the front right side of the engine near what I think is the govenor assembly. I'm hoping that is just a gasket issue, but is that a common place for oil leaks?
I have lots more questions, but I will just ask one more now. The gas tank is clogged and can't get any fuel to flow. It has some old fuel in it. I have the hood off, is there some trick to getting the tank out so I can drain it?