Not the typical stuff... These bits were pulled from a French flathead a while back. Just wanted to make sure no one has come up with any real use or value before I s**** them or turn them over to my daughter as sculpture fodder. (somewhere I also have a crazy front mounted air compressor for a flathead. I'm keeping that for some reason)
Meter how many hours the engine ran. Breather/road draft tube ....valve. 3rd(big thing) i don`t know the english word for I ***ume this is from a 255ci engine.... Michael
Radiator, coolant line hook up deal-ley, french flatty (military engines do not have a thermostat) http://www.35pickup.com/PA120018.JPG Revolution counter http://www.35pickup.com/PA120023.JPG And big thing-ey above revolution counter, by oil filter cannister : The mechanical governor http://www.35pickup.com/PA120022.JPG I can not think of anything to do with them, so my vote is to let your daughter have fun with the odd parts.
Governor...thats the word. Are you sure on number one? Its open to the air at the end and if you take off the intake you can look directly in the valley....... There is no coolant going through it.
Attached an extract of the French army manual to show how it all goes together. Can't post the whole manual due to file size restrictions. I also have some "left-over" parts from these French Flatties - just in case someone needs them...
Yes, it's an overengineered rev.-limiter set to 3,200 - 3,400 RPM. I never understood why the French haven't simply put in a rev.-limiting distributor rotor (like used on split-window VW busses).
If you ever looked in an engine of a Citroen you will know the answer.......french..... special way to build things....
Yup. So I've been carting this stuff around for eight years now huh? Time to see if Amelia wants it. If not I guess I'll just turn it over to the local curb Jawas. Think the meter read 53.
I still can't forget someone's face pulling up to your house and looking at a PILE of flathead parts and motors in the back of my rusty old truck and I asked if you wanted me take it home and bring it back "later".......haha. Have you heard from Dusty lately?
-------------------------- Yep...cl***ic French "engineering". Why use one simple, reliable and low-cost non-French-designed part to do a job, when you can use four complicated French-designed parts that will work almost as well, only break down four times more often, cost just five times more to build and six times more to fix!!!! Mart3406 ==============================
Haha - So just so we're clear here. I should be banned for wanting to get rid of an hour counter, a breather tube that will only fit on a single carb stock manifold, and a big lump of over-engineered French slag that can only serve to make an engine run slower? I think you should take a good long look in the mirror.
Yeah, I have better timing now. I have not heard from him in a while. I think he checks in around here from time to time though. He's a good dude.
If you ever want to build a real white-space Rod (like a customized submarine driven by a French flathead) you need to retain at least the manual PCV shut-off valve. Maybe our friends down-under could make good use of parts like that right now - or we here in Cologne with the exected river Rhine floodings next week .... ventilo off to Melbourne next week
Reminds me of this, which I have always liked : [SIZE=-1]Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organized by the Italians.[/SIZE]
I have also heard it was designed to count revolutions, just curious how to put in perspective how much use my engine has.
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