Reply To: 1948 Sportwin gas tank – what is it?

[Buccaneer]

My uncle gave me one of these motors years ago, and said it run good,
before his son took it to school for small engine class, lost the piston rings,
etc. I finally found new rings, went all through it, but never got it running
right. The flywheel  wobbled, shaking the motor, making me think my cousin bent the crankshaft
some how!

The motor was “over designed”, or perhaps too futuristic for it’s time.

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