The guage you see is the oil guage. There is a needle with a cork float that goes up and down with the oil level. One half of the base holds gas and the other half holds oil.
sweet engine! looks like you have a heavy old hand truck like i do for moving them around! i have a small oak one on steel wheels i cleaned it up oiled the wheels and added a turnbuckle to balence the engine for me so i dont have to hold it while moving it around! makes moving the old beasts easy as cake!
That's exactly what the hand truck is for! Only problem with it is that it doesn't help me get them on the workbench any easier! The older I get, the heavier the engines seem to get!
ill have to show mine! its all original! i found it in an open front shed in great shape! it still had the manufactures stamp on both sides so i inked the stamp and it came out great~ its made by nutting, its a very rugged truck. im guessing its from the 30's. someone replaced the steel plate on the bottom where you set the load on and its a bit smaller than id like for moving engines so i added the turnbuckle to balence them for me. but its nice and narrow so it fits about anywhere!
does that engine have a gas guage coming up out of the tank?
1944johndeerel 2 years ago
The guage you see is the oil guage. There is a needle with a cork float that goes up and down with the oil level. One half of the base holds gas and the other half holds oil.
Cletrac 2 years ago
@Cletrac Wow thats cool, did briggs make an engine like that?
TRcustomengineering 1 year ago
sweet engine! looks like you have a heavy old hand truck like i do for moving them around! i have a small oak one on steel wheels i cleaned it up oiled the wheels and added a turnbuckle to balence the engine for me so i dont have to hold it while moving it around! makes moving the old beasts easy as cake!
1944johndeerel 2 years ago
That's exactly what the hand truck is for! Only problem with it is that it doesn't help me get them on the workbench any easier! The older I get, the heavier the engines seem to get!
Cletrac 2 years ago
ill have to show mine! its all original! i found it in an open front shed in great shape! it still had the manufactures stamp on both sides so i inked the stamp and it came out great~ its made by nutting, its a very rugged truck. im guessing its from the 30's. someone replaced the steel plate on the bottom where you set the load on and its a bit smaller than id like for moving engines so i added the turnbuckle to balence them for me. but its nice and narrow so it fits about anywhere!
1944johndeerel 2 years ago
What a nice little engine.
How many HP is it?
MikezJunk 2 years ago
It's 1-1/2hp. Thanks for the comment!
Cletrac 2 years ago
@Cletrac
dam that's it?????? i would have thought it'd be at least 3-5 hp
firedude201234 1 year ago