I almost never use metric, unless I am mixing gas or working on a metric engine.
A US gallon has 128 ounces.
I think you have been cheated somewhere lol.
No seriously I remember this would cause grief when mixing gas because you could never be sure what you were dealing with unless it was clearly labeled US gallon or Imperial.
That Oliver is a rare bird up here…
Some have a flat belt pulley for running stuff around the farm.
I was amused by the young ladies reaction to the stall.
We call that a " Borrow word " I use a few myself sometimes a french word conveys the feeling better than an English one.
On industrial engines and some farm tractors, the timing marks are on the flywheel. Look on the bell housing for a plate covering a hole or just and open round hole, where you can see the flywheel. Using a rag and light turn the engine over slowly and watch for some markings. You really don’t know what the specified timing is so even if you found markings what would you set it at. Setting timing by ear has been a reliable method for 100 years on those old engines. Many had a spark advance in the driver’s compartment. When you switch to charcoal gas, the factory specs aren’t really that useful. Good luck TomC
My hat goes off to you Trigaux what a wonderful build and a fantastic show stopper to boot , the engine sounded lovely too with that fantastic exhaust note as you pull away .
Do you have any pictures of your nozzle arrangement and how it sits down in the bottom ?
Tom thank you for the quick response.
I look tomorrow on the wheel. I’m not sure to have the skills to adjust the engine has the ear .
I’ll talk with a former mechanic about it
Thierry
I don’t know what you meant buy "adjusting the coil. I think you meant adjusting the distributor. In any case adjusting it “by ear” is not hard to do and you might want to do it when you go to charcoal gas. Loosen the distributor just enough to turn it by hand. Start the engine and rotate the dist. Listen for the engine rpms to pick up. Then as you turn more the rpms will drop. let the rpms drop just a little and lock the dist. down. It is possible if you don’t know what direction the dist. rotor is turning that, when slowing the engine down, you will have “over” advanced the dist. Try starting the engine with the new setting. If it starts and runs, good. Done If the engine wants to back fire and not turn over as fast as usual, you over advanced the timing. Go back and proceed again with loosening the dist and rotate until the engine runs a fastest rpm. Now rotate, the distributor the opposite way you did the first the to slow the engine down. Lock it down again. NOW it should be good to go.( or close enough for the girls I go with)TomC
Trig; I E-mail the pictures to myself. The E-mail process reduces them. Then I take them off the E-mail and drop them on DOW. E-mails come through very quickly so I don’t have to wait but a short time TomC
In reference to your charcoal consumption rate, in my experience, a 5-gallon (20 liter) bucket of 1/2" dense char (oak) is roughly equivalent to 1 gallon of gasoline.
Spruce is a very “light” wood, and has half the BTUs of hardwood… So, you’re probably looking at 10 gallons in volume (40 liters) to get the equivalent of 1 gallon of gasoline.
So, in cases like this, it all about carbon density. We had phenomenally long run times with pyrolyzed pellets (super dense), and lasted twice as long as the pyrolyzed pine wood chips we tried.
Do you have a princess auto or tool town near you?
They sell some very inexpensive timing lights.
It would not hurt to familiarize yourself with one and find the actual timing of your engine ( also make some marks on the pulley so you can see what is going on )
Next a dwell meter might be useful so the ignition is set up correctly.
There are kits out there that will let you upgrade your inductive ignition with points to Higher output electronic controlled ignition like the GM HEI system from the 70s.
These are great ignitions with a lot of powerful spark for igniting hard to light lean mixtures and this might improve the performance of the Oliver’s engine.
