1968 Cooper Klipper Trim (part 6) Recoil starter and carb

Found another turn of rope rusted into the starter pulley.  It did not come out easily nor did the knot you see just above my thumb.

The pulley along with the recently found spiral twisty bit from inside the carb got a bath.

The hard part of the recoil reload is done.  Just needs to bend down the tabs, trim the rope, and install the pull handle on the rope.

The interior needs to be coated with rusty metal primer.  Rather then bend the tabs twice I will wait to do final assembly till after it is painted..

I reinstalled the spiral in the carb.  Just jammed it in so that it matched the position of the one on the pulsa-jet on the left..   But there is still a problem with the carb.

The needle valve spring is being held back by a brass washer rusted to the needle.
They came loose by holding the washers in a line man's pliers and cranking hard on the screw head.  That needle looks ugly!  It surprised me when the spring bounced back after being released.

1968 Cooper Klipper Trim (part 4) valves

The muffler is stuck good but I got both valves out today with it in place.   The guides are a bit loose but hopefully serviceable for an engine that will not be used for other than demonstration.  Of all the engines this is the first to need a new gasket for the breather cover.  This engine has a vent from the breather to the air.  On a car that would have been called a road draft tube.    I wonder why the spring on the right is bunched up at the bottom.  Have the bottom coils failed ?

Yesterday I cleaned up a spring from another engine and was going to install it in the clipper.  The rope that was in the Klipper's starter was way too thick and so was the somewhat smaller rope I have on hand.  The original rope must have swelled as I do not see how it could have been installed.

Today I tried to get the lid off the gas tank.  It seems the filler neck is turning instead of the cap.  I will try cooking it at a low temperature so as not to remove the paint.  But not today.

Febuary 3

Thinking about ways to get that cap off.  Maybe start with the rocks and acetone and turn it to get acetone into the cap while it rests.

AENLD (part 5) carb

Today I found the safe place I stored the venturi in.   Again I scratched my head on the float dampening spring.  This float had a mark left by the short leg of the spring which helped.

Everything was going well in that the little spring did not fly away.  But I put goofed as you can see in the first image.  The float will not fit through that hole in the gasket.

So the float and nasty little spring came off one more time so I could put the gasket on first.

Everything is done but repacking the needle valve adjusting screw.

Graphite packing may be getting hard to find.  We got this package of graphite packing off the web.  Tease out one strand from the rope.

This might just have been enough packing had I not cut it off.  The next time I used about twice that.  You know when you have it right because there is drag on the adjusting screw. 

I have several more of these to pack and I will do a video once I know what I am doing.  But unless the carb does not work when installed it is done.

AENLD (part 4) oil pump

Somewhere along the line a fellow on the web mentioned that the ANELs can die due to a clogged oil pump if put back into service without first checking.

I was not anxious to open the bottom of this engine as it is a heavy beast.   But do diligence we must.

Two of the legs are broken off the sump pan. They will have to be fixed.

The gunk in the sump is not too bad for an old engine.

The innards.  The oil pump is on the lower left and the crank and rod is top center.









The relevant diagram from the ANEL manual.

I would like to take the oil pump out and clean it while I am here.  However I am a bit worried about getting it back together if the bits fall down from higher up in the engine.

Took the oil pump off today.  Plant to test it in a bit of diesel fuel.  That should clean as well as test it.  But first I have to hold an easter egg hunt for the spring. It did not go bong.  I may have misplaced it or it fell out when I was handling the pump.

Found the spring about 4 feet from the engine.  Also found the venturi which I had hung on the peg board and a spiral insert for the Cooper Klipper Trim.  What a day.


Feb 9th

Took the pump apart and run it through the ultrasonic cleaner a few time.  I expect it would have been fine as it was but as long as I had it out why not clean it,

Feb 10

Cleaned the strainer.














Feb 13

Created the pattern and cut a paper test gasket.

AENLD (part 3) magneto

When I worked on the rollers ANELD engine I swapped the magneto with the one on this (the spare) engine because I could not get this one working.

Today I started by checking the condenser using the Mondo Superprobe which I built a few years back.  The condenser checked out at .28uF which is very good.  But it was rusty so I went over it with some 600 grit sand paper.

I reset the points to .015in and put it all back together.  While testing it fired the neon bulb, shocked me an burned a hair or two in the process.  Good bet it is working.  But I am working on a tester to measure relative ignition voltages.  There will be an update or a post when that happens.


Need to get a c-clip for the points and hit the cover with another coat of poly.  I don't know if it will hold up to the heat but it is worth a try.

3Z107B 3 Cylinder SpeedAire Compressor (part 3)

I am taking a bit of a risk and using reverse plating with distilled water and washing soda to see if I can remove the iron rust from the aluminum cylinder wall.    I am pulling it down every 1/2 hour and scrubbing it with a not too aggressive scouring pad.

Not much was happening so I decided to amp it up for a while.  Next round I cut it back to .25A and 9V.

Progress as of 11 PM.

It seems the warnings about checking it often had to do with lightly rusted parts.  I am going to let this run overnight at 1/3 amp.


I changed the water and am only getting 5.4V at 1/3 amp.  I am thinking this maybe due to a higher level of washing soda in this batch.  Need to start measuring.





Pictures of the heads.

DIY Shop Cargo Lift

Last year I built this lift to move stuff into storage over an interior room of the main shop building.  It uses an electric hoist and garage door roller running in wood tracks.

I have stills of the track construction that I will add when I come across them.