80 year old muscle

[x Baldwin Motion]

Here is the power plant that spent almost 8 years touring machine shops of the northeast. When it came home and was installed it ran great but there was one small problem, the rebuild had created much more compression than the old starter could handle..






yep, the crank was just too much for Peter who had just turned 80.

so if you look back to the two upper shots you see some cylindrical aluminum bracket aft of the crank with the arrows on it. That was one of several attempts by more dedicated craftsman to mount an electric starter to the top of the gearbox. After almost three years and I lost track of how many tries, somewhere in Pennsylvania a man yelled EUREKA !