Flea Market Hit And Miss Engine, Maytag 92
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- I went to a motorcycle flea market and found this 1937 antique maytag 2 stroke washing machine engine that they could not get running. lets see how it works and if we can fix it.
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I'm 80 ywars old and as a teenager we put those on homemade go-karts. Hours of craziness. We had an old woodshed and my dad had at least a dozen of those old Maytag motors. We spent about as much time stomping the kick starter as we did riding the go-karts.
We used reel mowers with screws in the tires bolted to the rear of a coaster wagon with barrel staves from nail kegs for ski's on the front (The first snowmobile) it was almost impossible to steer, but couldn't hardly wait our turn to try.
I Knew It!! Thank you for sharing, Sir! I'm 60. Grew up in the Briggs and Stratton era of childhood bliss! 🙂
I was thinking the same 😂
Thanks for sharing your memories !
I had a similar experience in childhood! If you don’t spend as much time working on the honkers as you do riding them then you’ll never build the patience that the rest of life requires.
I remember those. My mother used one in the 1940's. It had a flexible exhaust pipe about 6 feet long with a small muffler on the end of it. I think the motor was mounted under the washer tub. In the summer she would move the washer outside to use it. In the winter she kept it inside a small building send layed the exhaust out the door. She would heat the water in the house and carry it outside to the washer. She would wash the least dirty clothes first than the dirtier ones before refilling with fresh water. She would then drain the water and refill for rinseing. She used homemade lye soap. My sister and I would shave off small flakes of the soap so it would dissolve easier in the washer.
I recently had an old lawnmower motor that was throwing sparks. Low on oil!
my Grandmother had one too and also a ringer that was 2 rollers that squeezed the water out of the clothes using same motor just change belt over
Children shaving flakes of of lye soap to do laundry, yes, it was a different time!
@@rsmith3062 Now-a-days someone would complain about the smoke, lye smell and child labor...lol.
@@danpatrick5414 A soft society is doomed to fail, i.e. strong men create good times, weak men create hard times.
It's the first time that Darren's used a funnel on his first attempt to fill a tank. I've been waiting for years for this. Good things come to those that wait!
And he still spilled it! 😀The Mustie show really messes with my OCD sometimes, at least about fuel spills and making a mess. He went to prime the cylinder with his squirt bottle and spilled it all over the outside. The place must reek of gasoline fumes.
I enjoyed all the gas spills. I always hope for crazy ignitions that scare the hell out of folks and maybe some hair loss (no major burns though). Definitely would have made some good video.
When I was a kid, I always had problems lighting the burn barrel especially if it was windy or wasn't full (yes kids had chores like that back then). I remember using some gas out of the lawn more to start a half-filled barrel on a windy day. I guess everyone understands the basics of a canon. Explosive on one end, wadding and a projectile or two. I remember standing in front of the window air unit for several hours on end back then.
@@danpatrick5414he usually gets some fire when he works on VW engines though
Sparks are probably bits of gasket material sucked into the cylinder.
It may be 86 yrs old now, but I remember my uncle’s house had a washer with that engine on the porch. The exhaust hose was so you could drag it off the porch onto the yard, that way you didn’t have to breathe the exhaust. Back then, that little engine was only 20 years old. The house had no electricity and used kerosene lamps and heated with coal.
I wonder how many things we take for granted today will be in museums 60 years from now.
My guess is none of it, nothing is built to last that long anymore.
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More like five years. Seen a flip phone, a Treo, or even a Blackberry recently?
@@Digital-Dan lol a what now?
@@WeTrudgeOn Umm, I have a BlackBerry and use it every day...
A Maytag Model 92 was my first experience ever being shocked by a magneto ignition when I was like 11 or 12 years old...a friend of my dad's had given it to me to learn how to restore old hit and miss engines, and I was testing the spark while holding the spark plug/wire against the head and a crack in the wire's insulation shocked the shit out of me as my dad and his friend laughed their asses off...
In my day you didn't reach manhood until you were shocked by one of these.
ya,my buddy had some old mag and told me i needed to hold to the wire. shocked the crap outa me,he waould find different ways to shock me so he could laugh.i finnally caught on to his shenangans. so he said he was trying to find a missfire in his car. handed me a nice all steel needle nose and told me to pull each plug wire while it was running. i said ahh no,you aint gettin me this time,he laughed and said whats wrong.
@@sprintcarsandguitars959 Your "Buddy" sounds "Shockingly" like a psychopath.
@@sprintcarsandguitars959 ... After about 20 or 30 shocks you weren't nobody's fool eh?
I work with a bunch of retired cops and one of the pranks was to randomly taze newbies… they said they were gonna taze me, and I just laughed at their paltry 10,000 volt tazer and pointed out to my 70s Chevy and said the 50,000 volt coil hurts worse.
They never tried to get me.
It's amazing how well built the old stuff is
It was build to last not to fail on time to get another sale and not to be repaired.
@@terabbs It was also built to a standard that the maker would be proud of. There was an archaic notion called pride in workmanship.
It's a fallacy. Only the well built stuff survived, the crap fell apart and was thrown away and forgotten a long time ago.
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Yeah because we didn't have billions of people
The little valve is called an atmospheric intake valve. old tech. when vaccum is created in the crankcase it pulls the valve open against the spring. sounds pretty good once you got it going. Don't worry about the sparks that's normal. that's why it has the long metal exhaust hose lol if you had the washer in the basement you stuck the hose out the basement window.
To properly set the mixture - remove the pointer from the fuel needle. Locking both nuts LIGHTLY, gently turn clockwise, until needle is gently seated. Loosen and remove outer nut. Place needle pointer, so that it points to the right, 90 degrees from vertical When the outer nut is tightened, the pointer should be pointing straight to the right, parallel with the tank mount seam.
To run engine, fill tank to top, with fresh fuel.turn needle pointer 1/2 turn to the left (180 degrees). Kick engine over to start. As soon as engine starts, turn needle to right, until pointer is straight up. Adjust from that point, until engine runs best
it's really not an engine to be putting on a bike. the atmospheric valve won't work with a carb on the inlet. it's really better suited for something that needs a constant power at a set rpm. You could see if you could find a maytag washing machine that it was made for. You would actually probably enjoy restoring one of those. it's all mechanical. really neat.
The Model 92's have a flyweight governor that cuts the magneto when it reaches a certain speed, so a regular carb wouldn't do much good. Besides that, there's a poppet valve that acts as a reed would on a regular 2 stroke, that keeps the charge in the crankcase on the down stroke, so it can shove a new charge into the combustion chamber through the transfer port. That particular engine looks to be in excellent condition compared to some I've seen. I've had 3 or 4 of these over that last 50 years or so.😉 Usually the mag or the points are the source of most problems with them. The rest of the engine is pretty much bulletproof, as long as you feed it a good 16:1 mix of whatever oil you have around. They're not too particular about the kind of oil, just don't run them lean.😊 *EDIT:* Yep, runs exactly like it should!! Honestly, that exhaust tube is only the second one I have EVER seen! The other one was on a pristine restoration I saw at the Williams Grove Steam Engine show back in the 1970's!😯 Regarding the 'loading up' issue when it was sitting for a while, I'd be willing to bet the tank vent is clogged, and it's building pressure in the tank and causing it to force gas into the crankcase...
This is great info. Thanks!
I would imagine that using leaded fuel could also make a difference. That’s the gas they were made to run with
@@only1muppet It's not really as much of an issue with 2 strokes, as with old 4 strokes that need it for valve stem lubrication. With modern sintered bronze guides and hardened seats, it's not needed at all.
@@danw1955That is correct. For clarity, tetra-ethyl led was added to gasoline only to increase the anti-knock octane rating of the fuel to prevent detonation/preignition in high compression ratio engines. Practically, any anti wear effects leaded fuel had on exhaust valve face and seat or valve guide wear was an unintentional coincidence.
Had the same issue with a clogged tank vent on a few older briggs motors, would always flood after shutting down
They definitely tried to seal the crankcase/engine base with silicone and it all got sucked into the fuel tank...that needs to be sealed properly with a real gasket so that the engine can create enough vacuum to suck the fuel/air mixture in through the mixer...my guess is you've got a huge air leak at the base gasket where it sucked a bunch of silicone in, which got sucked up into the combustion chamber while it was last running...
The fuel tanks are not air tight. Only the crankcase.
I seem to remember a couple of years ago Hand Tool Rescue did two vids, one reviving a similar foot crank engine, and another on the reviving a washing machine from the 1920s, for anyone who's interested. Thanks Mustie, I really enjoyed this.
you are correct - Hand Tool Rescue did a full restoration on the entire machine - engine and washing basin
very cool
@@wjustinmartin Then he washed stuff in it.
I'm another in favor of leaving this Maytag accessory engine pristine and original. No modifications. So much bygone-age charm. A testament to functional simplicity and build quality. Back then, they never imagined "planned obsolescence," never mind "plastic." And that hit/miss note is soulful. Would be a sin to modify it for anything -- apart from what it was meant to do, namely provide other-than-human energy to make some machine do its job better.
I also born in 1944 in central farm country Sask. have memories of these i even have a couple of iron horses run nice but about 50 lbs. per hp.
I have seen these engines run at old time engine shows. They let them run at low speed for several hours. Kinda irritating!!!!
while I fully agree with keeping an engine in original shape these things are a dime a dozen they are all over at old engine shows one time a truck pulled up with a bed full of these it would be cool to see it on a bike or something
I would keep the one you have pristine, but have another one to experiment with. Like the guy said, there are easily found. Take care.
My great grandfather owned an appliance store in rural Minnesota. These Maytag washers were ubiquitous. In the 1940's when they were breaking down he collected them and rebuilt them, then sold them during the war when new production was halted. He would have been very helpful on this job! I wish Nels was still around! When he retired, he built award-winning wooden items using improvised shop tools.
I wonder how many of our small engines of today, will still be going after 86 years that thing is remarkable 👍
Kohler single cyl engines from early IH and Cub cadets are still going strong today and they're pushing 50 years old.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this stuff! The drive system was a flat leather belt that ran around the outside of the flywheel to a pulley on the washing machine's power transmission.
The drive system on this would have s pulley coming off the side not a flat belt on flywheel.
No flat belts on a Maytag. In fact if you look at the outer rim of the flywheel you can see the serial number for this engine at time 53:26. Its justbarly visible and i can not read it,but its there. You can find the manf date on line from this number. If you ran a flatt belt on this you would quickly wear that serial number off.
This model primarily used a V belt pulley
Actually it's missing the pulley
Well you know that it really needs a complete teardown and real gaskets installed. Personally I would make this old guy a static display with attachments. Ice Cream, butter churn, water pump etc..Thanks for taking us along as always.
Your almost there. Remove the needle from the end of the mixer adjustment and close it all the way, then align the niddle tip to the close side and reattach. Then to start you go all the way open and to run you go straight up and down. That valve at the bottom of the mixer allows vacuum on the tank to pull a little fuel then the force overcomes the spring and allows air to be sucked around that piston/valve.
Good morning everyone from Canada 🇨🇦 😊
my dad rigged up an old washing machine engine to use as a water pump to get water to our RV from the lake over 30 years ago. We still have the engine in storage but it hasn't run in a long time.
I rebuilt one of these engines in high school auto shop in the 80s. This episode brought back a lot of memories.
Back when I was a kid in the 1960's those engines were pretty common because when the wringer type washing machine would either wear out or someone converted it to electric they would hang on to the engine. I never had a Maytag engine when I was a kid but I did drag home a Briggs and Stratton that had a foot start like that. My dad told me it came from a washing machine too. Probably from an ABC Washer that was made in my childhood city of Peoria Illinois.
This is one of those great Americana treasures. It's like a hit & miss 2.0. It Is what It is and the rough run is it's character. It has made it 86 years without being altered or destroyed. Such a cool piece and I'm hoping you keep the engine in it's original form.
Those engines were built to last with very little maintenance because people who lived in rural areas couldn't just call the service man to fix the washing machine.
Maytag was known for dependability. Remember the old advertising with the lonely repairman
That poor Maytag Man
Im not so sure there was any maintenance department or service men in 1936!! LOL
chuff chuff, chuff chuff - love it. This would be a neat engine for a go-cart
Excellent work on the maytag right on
Exactly how it’s supposed to run & sound ! Thanks for showing it !
I wanted to see the piston and the cylinder "ports". BTW, my mother was born in 1938(85years old) and like this engine, she's still in good shape.
I am 40 years old and I actually learned how to do laundry with an old Maytag 2 stroke machine. 40 is not a typo. This all occurred between 1986-94.
My parents would send me off to my grandparents for the summer when I was young. They had a cottage on an island in Northern Canada. No electricity. No Phone. Propane lights. The only entertainment was swimming, fishing, and life lessons. One of those many lessons was laundry.
Laundry at the cottage was done with an old Maytag. The motor agitated the load and ran the rollers. You'd let the clothes agitate with the soap. Drain it. Rinse with fresh water. Drain it. Then run the clothes though the roller to get the water out. Then onto the clothesline. I'd sit there and chat with Grandma while she ran it. As I got older, hanging it up to dry became my responsibility, then I had to do my own laundry with Grandma's supervision. Then the last 3 years it was in service, I had to run it solo.
That sound is a fond memory.
The engine bouncing away while you went for the muffler got me good. It's like "no muffle! No!"
On that needle adjustment: Rotate needle till all the way in and then attach the lever in the closed position. That will allow for metering during operation. You will have infinite adjustment from closed to wide open. Mount a small engine muffler will be better than the hose. Also put a small engine round air filter screwed into the intake. I would not try to retrofit a carb as I think may not be worth it. The governor will automatically correct the speed dependent on the load. Put a belt to a small generator head ( 1000 watt ) and see how she does. All in All a very nice power unit.
Good info!
Hey Mustie, great video, Maytag made 2 stroke Washing Machines up until 1957. "Taryl Fixes All" just did a video on the 2 cylinder version of this within the last month. They are such cool engines. He didn't have the exhaust. If you decide to use this engine for some other project, I'll bet you he'd be interested in the exhaust.
They ended two stroke production in 1952.
@@maytagmark2171 I yield to the lonely repair man. I knew it was the 50's for sure, but my mind was locked on 57. Now I have to figure out what happened in 57 that I'm forgetting, probably a very important anniversary or something my wife will get all over me about....
Thanks! Some sunday afternoon entertainment .. 👍🙏
I was raised around an iron foundry and spent looking for good junk to mess with and finding something like that was a real treat. Most of the ones I came across were the twins.
sundays aren't sundays without Mustie
yard sale finds Mustie, like old times
It is inspiring that you deduced the operating method of centrifugal force controlling the spark to keep the rotational speed constant. It is maddening that you decided to allow the engine to dance around the table instead of clamping or some means of fixing it in place. Also my mother used Fels Naptha soap back then and would shave it to speed up the dissolving rate. We were farmers back then and because of the depression were fortunate to live close to the food supply but were able to have an electric motor run the wash machine before 1940. I was the ninth of twelve children, DOB1935 and recall an inch of ice at the bottom of the kitchen windows on wash day and the clothes coming in from the line frozen solid in Michigan. I would like to comment on Morris Lazlo's observation earlier that the national character really has changed so that too often the focus is on themselves rather than the story being told. I'm 88 now and hope our democracy survives.
Keep it just as it is. It is a piece of history.
The hit and miss engines I have seen had a mechanism that opened and closed valves to control the fuel going into the engine. They were made that way because they were used to save on fuel, and if the spark was stopped for the miss strokes, it would still be drawing fuel into the engine with each revolution including those without spark. This is the first time I have seen one where the spark was the source of the miss stroke, but I had only seen larger 4 strokes
Probably not that important for fuel consumption, having the unburned fuel go thru it might have helped with keeping it cool, and lubricated. Also.. it keeps the design VERY simple. That governor setup is really cool and simple, and very serviceable. Really cool engine for sure.
I have also seen a lot of the videos on the mechanically controlled big hit an miss engines..where they hold a valve open, those are also really cool.
Maybe this one kills spark because its a 2 stroke and you need the fuel to get oil and lubricate it? it also doesn't have any valves so they would have had to add a valve just for that, probably wouldn't work that great either.
A 4 stroke would have its own oil and woulnd't burn up without fuel
@@kens97sto171 Two strokes do rely on the fuel for lubrication. It isn't diesel, so shutting off fuel is shutting off lubrication to the lower end.
@@jlucasound
Yes, I know. That's kind of what I said in my comment.
The fuel going through it while the ignition is off would help keep it cool and lubricated.
Probably the main reason they built it this way was to keep it mechanically very simple. It certainly is that
I understand that with the 2 stroke it needs to have the gas and oil mix on each revolution for lubrication. I should have worded my comment better to avoid the confusion because I was just trying to say that I have never seen a 2 stroke hit and miss engine before but have only seen 4 stroke versions and the hit and miss engines were used to save fuel. Sometimes I don't speak the most clearly
I have a Maytag Model 72-D twin cylinder engine that was made in April of 1947 that runs great. What's funny about this engine is that it has a noticeable loping pattern due to the difference in the distance of each exhaust port to the muffler even though the cylinders are fired at the same time.
Another of my favorite RUclipsrs *Hand Tool Rescue* did a great pair of videos on a Maytag engine and the matching washing machine.
That slo-mo section at the end sounds like the perfect start to an AC/DC tune.
I collect and repair them and larger hit and miss engines,and yes it is a hit and miss engine, it uses the points and internal governor to regulate the speed, by interrupting the spark at a given speed, it's good you have spark because although most parts are available they are pricey, great video, I'm amazed that you haven't found one before!
Mr althomas: Could you please explain how the spark plug doesn't foul when the mag is disabled by the governor? Isn't fuel still being drawn into the combustion chamber?
@@cyrilhudak4568 The plug does get fouled, but since the magneto coil is so strong, it doesn't really matter much. The strong spark coupled with a low compression engine will last forever if properly maintained.
Since this is a two cycle engine, you always want fuel to be flowing through the engine, because the oil is in the fuel. Starve the engine for fuel, you also starve it for oil, and it will burn up.
It does get fouled, but you take it out and clean it put it back in and it will start and run again till the next time.
That "muffler" seemed to be more of a spark protector. Very cool machine!!
This is so true, but the "hose" was made to divert the fumes to the closest door or hole in the wall. I've seen one horse head muffler where the smoke came out of the horse's mouth.
Spark Arrestor, not protector.
OK, let get technical. The bulb at the end constricted the exhaust & the hose & bulb acted as a tuned expansion chamber, as on 2 stroke bikes, to give the engine more power. Seriously, the sole purpose of the exhaust hose was to get fumes out of the house & the bulb silenced the exhaust a bit. Other manufacturers such as B&S & Johnson also had mufflers on their exhaust hoses.
I love the way you talk to yourself when you’re working on fixing something .I call it having a team meeting where we discuss all the possibilities
When I hear the "Hey Guy's, how's it goin'?" I smile & I'm completely tuned in 🙂
Thank you Mustie! I enjoyed the video but the best was the end. The slow motion was too much. For some reason it just tickled my funny bone and I laughed hysterically. I really needed that as my wife of 43 years passed Wednesday and life hasn't been pretty.
Cheers
Terry
Sorry for your loss.
Here ya go, Terry. 1:12:51
That is so neat 😊😊😊 The little engine that could !
shaking cause the points cover is off. Thanks so much for showing us this vintage motor, it brings back so many memories.
My mom had one of these on her washing tub with a wringer to squeeze the water out of the clothes. She raised 6 kids using this wash tub and it's hard to believe how hard my mom worked giving us kids a great life growing up.
The first real washer and drier she had was in the early 60s and she always said her old washer got the clothes cleaner. She cooked on a wood stove and when my dad got her an electric range she hated it and would always use her wood oven to bake her bread.
Very cool little engine mustie, great to hear it running again 👍👍
Maytag had many neat accessories for these washing machines. One of the neatest was a little port that could be placed in your screen door. You would pass the exhaust hose through the port to the outdoors.
.. and they made RR Merlin V12 castings during WWII for the Packard Merlins
That slow motion was fun, I counted 8 cycles between a pop. Interesting how the flywheel keeps the Engine spinning. Thanx Mustie.😃
This is my favourite stuff bringing old back to life and use
I'm looking forward to this becoming the kick start "spin cycle" it was always destined to be.
I think you'll find that the revs will be limited by the mass of that brass poppet valve. There's a limit to the rate at which it can open and close. That's why more modern two strokes have reed valves that can vibrate (open and close) at a much higher rate. Those are definitely low-speed engines.
Yeah, I agree. Adjusting the governed speed setting to increase the engine RPM above the correct designed speed specification will cause the engine to run worse, not better. The opening and closing frequency of the brass poppet valve in the fuel mixer, is a function of the mass of the poppet valve and the stiffness of the return spring that returns the poppet valve to the closed seated position. If the engine RPM exceeds the poppet valve designed operating frequency, the engine will not get the proper amount of air and fuel for best operation.
That would make a cool trike engine.
Very cool video. Thanks Mustie. Nice
The muffler is meant to run in a barrel of water.
That's a very good point! Though if I'm honest I don't remember ever seeing that.
That's pretty cool
And this water is then used for the washing machine, once hot
@@whitesapphire5865That’s how you heated the wash water!
@@AspireLeon eughh! Fairly black water! Could definitely be fed through a pipe system to warm other water though.
Here we go with Mr Mustie 🎉🎉r
Learned something again from watching you. Thanks
I want to thank you Darren every Sunday me and the family sit down their two kids and they love your videos when you went on vacation to pick up the van from your mom and dad you were gone two weeks they were like they didn't want to get up on Sunday we got up every Sunday and you were not there so I say thank you Siri For Your Entertainment my kids love it!!
Awesome video Mustie1 👍 that is a very interesting small engine. Would be great to see another project video, on that small engine.
That's probably the neatest video in a while to me..I find it interesting how that works ..It reminds me of an old steam engine.Primitive but really innovative..Super cool..I have my Great Grandma's old maytag .It's electric but you got me thinking maybe I'll source me one of those and put it on hers.
Those are fun i wish i had one I had way back in the mid 90's & someone stole it out my garage one night They left a ton tools & power equipment just for the motor !
The patients of Joey!
I'm surprised you haven't come across more of these hit and miss engines. Nice little engines.
It's not a hit and miss engine- just a 2 stroke. Maybe he put that in the title to get comments (clickbait).
Hello Mustie: I guess those engines getting somewhat rare now. In the 70's they were a common find at swap meets & flea Markets. Just about any farm auction you went to you could find at least 1. The remote Fishing Camp I was familiar with used one well into the 90's. Until they upgraded to a generator system.The last time I was there the machine had been cleaned up and made to look real nice, not used but not forgotten. They were not supposed to be used indoors but the muffler system sure made it easy to hang the hose out the window. It also made hot water when hung in the 45 Gal water drum. What a great improvement over hand cranking a washing machine. Great find. I wonder what you will think up to use it for? Keep the fun stuff coming.
Ha I was thinking the muffler was meant to be dunked in water if not to quiet it maybe it would "filter" the exhaust a little.
I’ve always liked these old Maytag hit and miss engines. Thanks Mustie.
Lol! Those engines are still cool! From what i remember, thats how they all ran. My older cousins put one on an old bicycle. Funest 4th of july ever 1967 with sparklers in the handle bar grip holes 😂
Always an excellent show. I've learned much from what you do. I especially appreciate that you do not make yourself the focus as is seen on too many shows like this.
There’s a good part of me that wants to keep this machine original, as it was. It’s a bit of legitimate history. You could probably find some off grid uses for it. I’d rather see some engine that doesn’t have nearly as much history, thrown onto a moped or similar. IMHO.
I agree, the kick start is the coolest part don't delete that
I love this engine! I'd keep it on in the background just for the noise! I say Noice to this 86 year old machine!
I am beginning to believe that Mustie1 can fix a rainy day. 😄
Very interesting thing !. If you put a carb on it, with that unbalanced crank, once you give it the revs it will rattle itself to bits !.
Great way to start my Birthday. 71 years old today. If that old motor can start and run, so can I. Thanks Mustie.
Happy Birthday 🎂 🎂 It's mine to this month
@eddiekilby Thanks. May you have a Happy Birthday also.
I MUST ADMIT IT HAS BEEN SO ENJOYABLE WATCHING YOU AGAIN.
We all know that "back in the day" (I am so sick of that quote) there were women that knew this machine inside and out. Experts with this two stroke. Got their friends machines running, helped build the go Karts and minibikes that were built from retired machines. (When another part of the appliance broke). Ahh, the good 'ole days.
Great women. My mother could remove bicycle tyres with her bare hands to fix our punctures. No tyre levers required.
One of the more interesting videos and engines. Never heard of anything like that. Before you start to modify it, I think it would be interesting to see it configured to drive something like a pump or mixer that they were intended to do.
My uncle had one of those. It kicked back one time when I was trying to start it. Threw me across the driveway.
I found one of these buried in the desert by Nuevo CA. The spark plug had no porcelain anymore so I made it work with sculpting clay. I cleaned it up and rattle can painted it and sold it for $75 to a guy that collected them. he told me it was known as a wheezer Maytag motor. It ran really good.
part of me wants to see this being used as a boat engine
It seems like there should be lots of cool uses for a constant-speed motor like that. Neat find. 👍
My aunt Kate in rural Nebraska still used here in the late 50's. She run the pipe out the back screened porch window and the muffler was dipped in an old wash tub full of water. It was an opposed twin.
The little metal tab bent up on the bolt is a fold over lock. It prevents the bolt from coming lose and backing out.
Great video Mustie, made me ponder how primitive it feels today to use a gas powered IC washing machine. Wonder if we'll ever think the same thing about cars at some point. One thing for sure, that thing has a soul.
lets hope not!
The end of the ICE age is inevitable, and not far off, more or less independently of whether you think that is a good or a bad thing.
Another awesome video!! I love seeing you revive old engines!! Nothing like Sunday morning coffee and Mustie1!!!
I’m 70 years old. I remember my grandma and granddaddy talking about one of those old gas powered washing machines. It was an upgrade over the old scrub board! That’s before they had electricity in the 1930’s. They still cut stove wood to cook .
My mom had a Maytag washer with a Johnson engine, not original, & we considered it quite modern. It could do everything the electric machines of the day did plus it could be slowed down for "gentle wash" by slowing down the air vane governor on the engine.
I always love seeing these old Maytags. 805RoadKing has done a few restorations of these on his channel over the years, and they're always cool to see.
You should build an off grid laundry machine from found stuff.
My experience with Maytag engines is they like a little ZINC in their oil diet. Newer oils have no zinc and the zinc additive or go ahead and use 2 cycle oil for your mixture, your weed eaters and a 2 cycle engine are short lived with reg 30 wt oil. Great video enjoy watching.
I would add that zinc is not necessary in the Maytag.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Thank you.
Some time around 1960 a father in the neighborhood built his son a pickup truck powered by a kick start washing machine motor. Lucky kid!
Good Morning everyone.
I have always wanted to get one of these. Love how they just hum along. I have several motors from this era, but haven't gotten my hands on one of these yet.
When I was a boy I went on a sleep over and the family had one of those gas powered washing machines . They were ashamed of it but I thought it was very cool. None the less I kept my word and did not tell the other kids that those people had the washer on the porch . They had a cool house first and only A frame house I was ever in . They had a small farm and it all seemed great to me
I never would have figured out the mixer. Amazing how this old motor fires right up after a mixer cleaning, fresh gas, and Musties deductive reasoning.
I feel like trying to make fuel adjustments without an air filter/cleaner, might effect the power output too. nice job Mustie.
Its a good mustie day
Fantastic video - 80 plus years old....really makes you think about the quality of old machines and Musties knowledge
Loved it. I'm an old iron guy. Good to see something that old resurrected!
Mustie1, Cool acquisition! Perfect for your curiosity (mine too…haha)! Great job getting it to run. I’m still curious about the sparks. Like you said though, probably build up of carbon in the exhaust expecially since it was running so rich!. Put it on a go cart maybe or a compressor!