Posted by HWooldridge on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 at 1:20AM :
I posted this on another forum about stationary engines and got zero responses. There's a few firefighter types here so thought I'd ask. I have a Hale 25FR portable fire pump mounted on a trailer driven by a 2 cyl Wisconsin TJD engine. It belonged to a local VFD and sat out for over a year. I pulled the distributor, cleaned the points and weights, then reassembled it. With fresh gas, it fired up and ran quite well but when I opened the valve and start building head pressure, the engine stalled and couldn't be restarted without pulling the air filter and juicing with a little gas. After it fires, it will start running again and be fine with no load until I open the valve to start building pressure and shuts off around 35lbs. The governor seems to be working to a degree because I can hear it kick in but the engine eventually just dies. The restart problem almost acted like vapor lock but I waited until the engine was cold and it did the same thing. I don't have a manual on the engine or so I set timing by ear. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Hollis
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