1950's Gas Powered Air Compressor sitting 30 years! (Will it run!??)

[Applause] all right welcome back to another moving rendition of projects i do not have time for but i couldn't really pass this up it's just neat i've never seen anything like it i picked this up uh last night off of facebook marketplace this is a sram 35-h a pneuma power 35-h uh the story i got with it is that it's been sitting in buddy's garage for at least 20 years without being touched it looks to be all there it looks like they just quit using it one day and let it sit so there's still a little bit of varnish gas in the tank and this battery on here that's corroded all over the place i'm gonna see if there's a year on that battery when i remove it and that'll really tell the tail see how old this thing is or how long it's been sitting anyways i believe the year of the unit somewhere around the 1950s very little i could find about them online but this unit it's got a 20 gallon tank and it puts out 35 cfm at 1800 rpm so it's the neat thing about this i've never seen anything like it why i decided to pick it up is it it's a wisconsin motor that they just this is your regular ignition side you just runs like a normal motor then the other side they changed the heads on and did some other janky stuff and that's the compressor side so it's a four-cylinder two cylinders run the motor two cylinders run the compressor so that's pretty neat something different not gonna figure out how to get it off the truck because it weighs about 800 pounds and i don't have any equipment here right now these are pretty corroded i'm pretty sure i'm gonna need new terminals give this a shot at just prying these off yeah that worked way better those terminals are too nasty to even try messing with this one seems to be on here a bit better there we go [Music] over here is the tag that tells us when this battery was sold so it looks like it was sold on february april may of 86. i can't read these two but that says 87 and 88 so that's got to be 86. yeah so uh battery's been in here a while so [Music] oh i can't wait to get a bigger shot [Music] that leaves me like almost a foot of room in here that's like wow that's really great well there it is inside finally that gives you a little better perspective on the size that's it park rex next to a lincoln ranger 225 which isn't exactly a small welder i love the styling on this thing man so rounded over and everything even these cast badges that they have on the side they put them right on the curve so they're nice and rounded just neat looking now typically the one of the first things i would actually do on something like this because it looks like it just got shut down and put away 30 years ago and hasn't been touched it's been stored inside so it's in good shape um normally the first thing i would do is drain this varnish out of the fuel bowl and the fuel tank take the carb off and clean it but i pulled the dipstick on this thing and the oil is just some sort of thick like really really thick so actually i'm going to pull the drain plug here and let this kind of drain while i am messing with everything else because i've got a feeling it's going to take quite a while to drain and i'd like to try and get all of it out of there at once i would actually normally try to get running with the original oil in it as long as there's no signs of water i'll run it with the original oil in it that way i can get it good and warm and then i'll change it and that'll drain out all the sludge and crap so what i'm actually gonna have to do this time is two oil changes because i know i'm not gonna get all the sludge out this time i'll let it drain and then i'll have to let it run with a new oil for a little while get it warm and do the same thing so drain it back out of there and hopefully get all the crap anyway let's get started something to hold this fitting the whole pipe fitting is unscrewing another i need that she is not going to give up the shmoop without a fight there we go now release the shmu i'm not as bad as i was expecting definitely not good though time to take this top cover off of here so we can gain access to the carburetor and the back of the fuel tank right now the covers off aside from some cobwebs and some peeling paint on the back of the gauges here everything looks pretty good uh i see this intake boot here it's got some tape around it looks like camouflage duct tape or something so that's one thing uh it looks also as though i'm seeing there's some sort of resin built up here i'm betting what that is this fuel was leaking out of the carburetor there or somehow oil from the oil bath filter came into the intake and went out whatever hole was here dripping down onto that there's our carburetor and i'm betting money that it's going to be all gummed up so we'll start there disconnect the fuel line uh throttle linkages and things of that nature on this side there's an unloader over here hmm okay there we go here's our fuel line i managed to break it but it was probably junk anyway but it had a nice swivel fitting on here i've never actually seen a fuel line made like that nice brass fitting smell of varnish i actually love that smell that's one of my favorite smells of the mechanical world so this deal here is connected to our throttle this is our governor return spring uh but this is like a mechanical throttle accelerator so when the com it's designed to idle down when the compressor is not demanding air and then uh i guess when the compressor demands there or something or other triggers this arm to shove forward and open her up until she builds enough air to settle back down ah all right yep that hose is shot looks like something ate it let's get a new one of those so the choke is fairly free pretty gummy pretty stiff but this throttle should move nice and easy it ain't moving for nothing that i'm threaded right out of there i would have never thought they would have threaded out i would have thought that would have thought fought me forever luckily came right out i can get to this bowl but i'm betting the bottom gonna be a mother there's like a spacer on here which is connects to this unloader they're kind of stuck right oh there we go yeah all right we'll lay down a fresh diaper because you just know she's got a pedal everywhere like a newborn yeah look at this look at the stank look at the varnish ah yeah yeah now we're mechanical huh so let's pop this bowl off here without any further ado whoa there's the bottom of the plug let me get a tray there's the bowl plug right there it's got some crusties on it wipe that off second we're gonna have to scrape that off oh she is just right clogged she's gonna take a couple taps i'm betting oh buddy oh are you getting that are you getting the varnish there it looks like a 30 year old can of minwax with the lid crack the whole time whole buddy that is the worst one i've ever seen hands down wow this might take some dip now i'm all for a good varnished carburetor but i may have bit off more than i can chew on this one good god i can't get the lighting right for you guys here it is just beyond gummy and crusty here wow i don't know if you can get the magnitude of this one there's the bowl [Music] ah crusty i might not even be able to completely disassemble this today because i i don't want to like force things apart i'm looking at this main jet has got so much resin down in there that i don't think i could get a screwdriver to it and if i can the threads are all full of that resin i probably can't back it out even if i can break it loose might be running low on carb cleaner anyway i know i got more of it on the shelf yeah soak well it's actually breaking down this resin pretty good yeah let me let me get another can this one's pretty much empty there's our nasty nasty float oh it's not good it's not good there's definitely stuff in the float i need a new float man that's not good it can be tough to find one of these floats i bet got the jet loose maybe took a little magnum all right well the carb itself actually cleaned up pretty good all the ports are clean and everything um still definitely some smooth here i gotta scrub out a little bit better my main concern now though is finding me a new float because this one is compromised all right there's a little bit of varnish crap in this fuel tank left so i'm gonna try and get it out of here next probably gonna be hard to catch all right here's the hoping i can actually catch this that gasket has made a good seal oh [Music] yep smells like minwax here's what was in the uh sediment glass looks just like gas doesn't it there's like a half inch of resin at the bottom here look at that [Music] and there's still fuel in the tank but it's not wanting to come out for whatever reason she might be right clogged i might have to fish a wire oh whoa i'm gonna have to take that sediment bowl housing off i guess try blowing some air in the tank see if it'll come out that way so [Music] what the heck there should be fuel coming out of there oh yeah yeah right clogged resin like i thought look at that ah looks like red diesel fuel and smells like death okay here we are back the next day i let uh let some of these carburetor parts soak in acetone overnight because i didn't have any carb dip so hopefully that keeps them clean there's the sediment bowl housing there's our crusty old float definitely looking a lot better juicy there's the fuel bowl i just dropped the jet back in there that is lovely i think we're going to go back in there for the rest of the day i haven't found a replacement float yet all the ones i find are for a different series of uh sheller carburetors or marvel marvel shabbler carburetors see the crusty's just falling off of that now a lot better than before it was all resined on there you had to scrape it off it was real thick so that's good light wire brush and that'll all come clean good news rub that all back in there for now the float still floats so it's not completely full of fuel it could still work i might try putting it together with that let that soak again for a while so when i went and picked this thing up before i bought it i was able to spin the motor over just enough to know that it wasn't seized up but i didn't want to spin it any more than that because something that's been sitting as long as this thing obviously has we're going to want to pull the plugs out and squirt some oil down in these cylinders it's got bosch plugs in it it's a good sign somebody took good care and put good parts into this thing plugs look pretty good a little bit a little bit rich you can always tell a lot about a motor from the spark plugs uh if it's running lean and not getting enough fuel the plug will be kind of burnt looking kind of whitish grayish and if it's running too rich it'll be real dark a lot of carbon buildup around it this doesn't have any carbon buildup but it is pretty black so this isn't running bad at all it was running good at the time yeah both plugs look identical they look good the electrodes look in good shape so that's good we'll squirt some oil down in here and let that sit for a while while we're doing the rest of this stuff this is just a new motor oil in here you don't want to put a ton in there because they'll just hydro lock it so just put a little bit next thing we're going to need to do is uh i'm going to guarantee we're going to need to clean the points so this is your cap this is your rotor this is your breaker points down here basically this uh distributor spins around and uh it's on a cam and it makes the breaker points move open and closed and that's what uh shoot your spark that's your spark plugs so these parts this is the rotor like i said and this is your cap uh the contact points everywhere they look pretty clean but we'll go ahead and hit them with some scotch brite here just to shine them up a bit so here's a close-up look at your breaker points here there's two little pads there i hope you're in focus these two little pads here open and close uh those two surfaces in there they get corroded so you just got to clean them up in between them with like a little piece of sandpaper or my favorite thing to use is a emery boards like women use for filing their fingernails so these things work great because they're real rigid and you can just stick it in between there and shine them up i'm sure somebody's gonna tell me i'm wrong for doing it with that but i've been doing it for over 10 years and it's never been a problem so you can see the points will just hold that thing in there and you just back and forth until they clean up nice and if the emery board starts to get dirty at the tip you can just snip the tip off and move back to a cleaner spot after we've sanded them good we'll blow them out with the air compressor i guess we can go ahead and get uh pulling this old oil filter off looks like it's gonna make a mess so let's get a diaper it might be a mess it might not drip at all because this thing's uh gravity feed drains it of course it's got to be really on there there we go so some long threads little mess not bad here's what i wanted to save it i think that looks pretty cool well i just got back from napa with the uh the essentials for this thing i got us a filter i got us some 30 weight so let's go ahead and get this filter [Music] installed not too bad went on good didn't leak i'll take a paint marker and write on there the date right here is our oil fill so let's get that off of there and uh funnel and we'll get this thing filled up with some more oh yeah right on the money i don't know if you can see that or not now of course one last thing we have to do before we're ready to get this uh compressor fired up we're gonna have to put the fuel system back together uh i'm pretty sure i mentioned when i took the carburetor apart on video there there was a pinhole in the carburetor or not in the carburetor but in the float in the carburetor so if this thing isn't the right buoyancy it won't meter the fuel correctly so i was going to try and re-solder this thing but you can really make a mess of things really quick so i tried a safer route first uh an old-timer told me that you could use certain nail polish and just put a little dab on there a couple times let it cure really good and then it would actually be fuel resistant and i didn't think so i thought for sure fuel would eat the nail polish but i figured i'd try it it couldn't hurt and i just floated this thing in gasoline for a good couple hours and uh it didn't eat it so short term it'll work at least maybe we can get this thing fired up and then long term if it doesn't hold out i can try soldering it and if that doesn't work i've already talked to a company i can send this out and they will put new uh buoys on it or whatever you call these the little floats themselves the individual floats they'll put new ones on for like 30 bucks but you can't just go buy a whole float assembly anymore for this carburetor it's discontinued so let's put this thing together [Applause] [Music] guess there's nothing to it but to bolt it on there and try it out now the fun part trying to get this thing cobbled back on here i just remembered this bottom bottom bolt hole is stripped out it's aluminum so i mean there's a little bit of thread left in there i don't know we'll see if we can either put a thin nut on it on the back side here to clamp down or we might have to drill it out and install a helicoil all right well the tank isn't quite cleaned out enough yet for me to be comfortable running fuel from the tank so what i'm going to do is just put a fuel line off of here and bottle feed it for now and uh i'm going to leave the intake off too because the hose is bad here that look like a good hose d guys i've never seen one do that it kind of like melted anyway so if i know one thing about these wisconsins it's that they all got drinking problems so here's baby's bottle slip around the old carburetor there yeah good now we'll just uh put a little dollop of fuel in there i've been running two-stroke oil in the gas too whenever i'm doing a first start on something like this it's been sitting in a while i kind of got in the habit of running the two cycle fuel mix through it that way it's just got all the extra upper cylinder lubricant it can get so this is a clean bottle this is all i use it for is doing stuff like this so there we go throw a little bit of that and a hail mary pass i did a little digging around the old garage here and i actually come up with an air filter for this thing nice little donaldson setup i threw on there real quick so i can get a hose that'll come over here to the old oil bath this is the this is the air filter for the compressor side and it's topped off to the line with proper oil so before we go trying to crank this thing over with a starter uh you know it hasn't really made any full revolutions in probably 30 years so we'll use i had the right tool for this but i sold it but anyway a pipe wrench will go right on the end of the crank here we'll just spin this over nice and slow about a dozen times or so and get some of that oil moved around and that might even work the mechanical fuel or oil pump enough to start to pressurize some of the galleries turn over nice and smooth beautiful got plenty of compression well here goes nothing oh that barely even turned over and it's tried to start a little less choke a little more choke oh i can see this is gonna be smoky we better open the door [Laughter] oh yeah [Music] it's just spitting gas everywhere probably really hard for you to see but there's actually a puddle of gas down here in the valley so before we have a fire we better quit all right it's actually been about a year since that last clip you guys just saw and uh it's that time of year again where it's forcing me into the garage the inclement weather is just miserable outside and i'm not going to go out there and get pneumonia so we're back here in the shop right where we left off on this thing it's become a catch-all in the meantime as most projects do but we're real close on this thing i'm going to yank the carburetor out of here and try and solder up that little pin hole in the float and we should be good to go okay still a little bit of fuel in here a year later kind of surprised at that the bowl is on there pretty good look at all the sludge we still got in our carburetor that's kind of funny it's like this carburetor just is determined to be gross actually the uh float repair job here looks okay i don't hear anything in the float huh interesting so that nail polish trick seems to have worked well i guess we're just going to go ahead and clean everything again real well because i can see it's pretty crusty again and go from there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right well we're gonna try to be smarter about this this time and uh it's it's kind of a pain to install it's really hard to get the bolts started on this carburetor so i'm gonna go ahead and chuck it up in the vise here and we'll hook some fuel up to it and if it starts leaking fuel then we know we still have problems i didn't see any issues in there i put my mouth on the inlet and kind of blew on it and closed the lifted the float up and closed the needle off and it you know it didn't seem like it was letting any air through so hopefully it does the same with fuel well i'm glad i did that because after having the bottle on it filling up the bowl here after a minute or so you can see the gas is just leaking straight past the bowl seal the bowl gasket and i'm surprised at that because the gasket actually looks really good so i guess we'll pop the bowl back off of there and try to make one you can't really go readily by parts for this carburetor it's very old and very obsolete i mean i might be able to find a gasket kit for it but trying to fix it now yeah this gasket's it's pretty thin hopefully i'll be able to make one [Music] hmm [Music] so [Music] well third time's a charm i guess i uh cut that paper gasket and put it on there and put the fuel to it and it still eats so i ended up taking it back apart and put a thin coating of permatex number two on both sides of that gasket stuck it back on there cranked it down and i've had the fuel go into it for several minutes now and not a drip or a wet spot so uh it's good enough for me all right here we go i got the carburetor tightened back down in there everything's hooked up threw an air filter on it got a temporary tank rigged up over here so nothing to it but to do it i even have a fire extinguisher standing by keep getting bad vibes from this thing for some reason like there's no reason it would burst into flames but for some reason i have that vibe on it okay here we go turn the choke off see what happens oh buddy [Music] so give that another shot i accidentally had the uh air valve closed so it was building up air pressure fighting the starter [Music] well it was actually running pretty good here but uh it wasn't leaking when i started it it wasn't leaking any fuel and then once it started running it uh started spraying fuel out of that bowl so i that's a bit odd at any rate that's not good maybe that's why i'm worried about this thing bursting into flames but uh well i think i'm going to call that the end of this episode uh i don't have any material here to better fix that carburetor gasket and it's leaking dangerously down into the hot engine and spraying around onto a hot exhaust manifold so we don't need to burn the place down i bought this thing because i just thought it was so cool and so different i've never seen another one like it so uh if you guys know anything about these drop it down in the comments definitely appreciate any information i could get on these the next time we visit our air compressor here we're going to go ahead and get the carburetor squared away we're going to get uh get it running nice make sure it's making air correctly make sure the uh kick out valve or whatever you want to call that the air actuated throttle we're going to make sure that's all working correctly and we'll button everything back together and clean up some of this acid that's made a mess back here on the back of this thing and put a battery on it and hopefully see what this thing can do i have some small jackhammers that i think this uh this compressor is actually rated to run so that'll be pretty fun i actually don't even have a compressor big enough to run the jackhammers i just acquired the jackhammers at an auction or something so that'll be cool to get those going too and uh i jackhammers are a hateful thing but they are nice to have if you need one you know beats a sledgehammer so anyways guys if you like the video if you like this old antique equipment and stuff like it make sure you hit the subscribe button and the thumbs up button if you haven't already it helps channel out and i will catch you guys on the next one thanks for watching later [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Diesel Creek

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Keywords: schramm, ingersol, quincy, altlas copco, Campbell Hausfeld, jenny, gas, pneumapower, made in usa, wisconsin, engine, motor, compressor, air, tools, jackhammer, cfm, psi, old, antique, farm, barn, cold start, old start, will it run, carb, marvel, schebler, walbro, start, 50's, 60's, 70's

Id: 64Hxjn2JPig

Length: 44min 0sec (2640 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 30 2020