Clinton Engine 7HP 1955 (53 Years OLD)

Very OLD engine from 1955 i got it from a old man for free but he passed away in a few months. It has electric start and rope start. Fired up on one pull when warm but have to use electric for cold or 20 pulls on rope LOL because needs carb tuned. It has not run atleast 30-40 years (53 Years old but ran very low hours) some crap got between the exhast valve seat and made no compression so i removed it with a screwdriver and clean it with a wire brush and so as the intake and i also cleaned the points to make spark. Good thing that the tank was emty so no carb damage. The chamber looked like new and ran on 3 pulls when primed with gas like new just been sitting awhile in a house.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Clinton
• 7HP
• engine
• Run
• Valve
• Seal
• Ring
• Hi
• Compression
• Tune
• Starter
• Rope
• Start

[launboy8]

So, you got any plans for her? Sure does run real nice!!! I love just starting engines and listening to them running, especially at ow Idle... Don't know why, guess I'm just weird like that.

[30GB]

i sold it because i was going to move damn i was going to keep it and do a rebuild and repaint but i sold it for $120 at my yard sale

[jozafax]

Nice little engine you got there.

Change the video title to "Obama engine, no HP (46 years old), it would be a real view count buster :)))

[30GB]

naw its like one of the only videos of clinton engine here on youtube

[SquirrelGrrl]

Very nice runner!

[30GB]

yes she is but id i can tune the carb it will run even better

[jeddude10]

nice

[briggs5sboy]

ha ha one inch shaft

[pawpycoo]

That sounds cool.

[animebsd]

i want one soooooooo bad ... my first 4 stroke was a clinton

but never got the poor baby runing

i through her away

this was 7 years ago

:(

i miss her lol

[bogdan9875]

nice ;)

[krankiev]

I have a video of a Clinton engine. :)

[krankiev]

Doesn't look like you've got any oil in the air cleaner. You know that's an oil bath, right?

[motox458]

thats a nice engine, ive been looking into buying an old clinton when i get the money, im getting an old briggs from the late 40s/early 50s in 2 weeks :D