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It’s alive!

After doing the whole vinegar then baking soda then dry it tank cleaning routine, first time I put gas into the tank, naturally it all got clogged up with the remaining rust. Nice :-/

So I had to create this beautiful experimentation tank and I am happy to report, the old 77 year old engine ran!  It has not been started – according to its previous owner – since 1989.

I will now hook it up to a small submersible pump to get some water circulated so we can tune it or just be amazed by its noise and smell 🙂  Then it’s onto cleaning, etc the water impeller and in general the lower stuff.

What do people do with the water return pipe? It would seem safer is one could see that water is actually coming out of the engine.