This is just like the old coffee shop, which was like the old coffee shop down the street. Pull up a chair, sit down and enjoy some good discussions. Please, no political, religious or racial posts.
I am looking for any information on where old Waukesha engines were used.
Being I work for the company now, it's good to know.
I know they were in some old Olivers, F-12's ?, White, Co-Op? and others.
Pictures would be nice too.
They only build gas (not gasoline) engines now.
Thanks
We don't stop playing because we grow old....
We grow old because we stop playing.
Scott,
For what it's worth the engine in the pre WWII Crosley car was a Waukesha power plant if you could call it that
I had one of those as a field car when I was 13.
It was 2 cyl,horizontal opposed and air cooled off the flywheel and of very heavy cast iron construction. Seems I recall it having a HP rating of 12.
The generator was mounted forward directly off the crank shaft and the starter mounted toward the top at the bell housing. These were Autolite units.
Shown (not mine) is an accurate restoration-
PW-Engine-sm.jpg (42.42 KiB) Viewed 9491 times
Notice the Warner Gear T-92 3 speed transmission, this would later wind up in thousands of Economy Power King tractors after Crosley ceased auto production in 1952.
I had the chance to buy one of these fully rebuilt at a swap meet last year but did the walk away as I had no use for it
Scott,
I have an F-12 with the Waukesha engine. A slightly larger version was used in the Case RC. The first International 15-30 gear drive (later called the McCormick-Deering 15-30) used a Waukesha engine. I don't know if it was designed by IH or Waukesha though. IH took over production of the engine in 1923. Variations of this engine (all built by IH) were used in the F-20, F-30, 10-20, W-30 etc.
Waukesha engines also powered many fire trucks. A friend of mine just finished cutting up two junk trucks with spicer 5spd automatics and giant 1100 cubic inch Waukesha gas 6cyl's. One didn't run and the spicer was junk, I think the other truck was operational minus the pump and a junk rusty tank.
Smaller 4 and 6 cylinder Waukesha engines powered several obscure brands of trucks in early years, one being the Lapeer Tractor Truck (think early semi-tractor trailer) that was built in Lapeer, MI from 1916to 1920 and used a 4 cylinder Waukesha engine, and the Linn, built in Morris, NY from 1917 into the 30's/40's, and used for logging, snow plows, ect. It had a 6 cylinder Waukesha engine. There were others.
May you always have as many landings as you do takeoff's.........
We had a couple spare parts from an overhaul we did so I took a piston and rod.
I'm going to take it to Wyotech next week when I talk to the diesel class's about the gas fields.
Then they're going in my shop because they are cool.
Connecting rod is one heavy hunk o metal!
We don't stop playing because we grow old....
We grow old because we stop playing.
Scott, I know where there is a four cylinder flat head for your elongated cub maybe needs some carb work it's on a generator now.
rope and electric start Waukesha . water cooled .not sure the HP maybe 12???
I have a rod and piston on my desk at work that I pulled off a customers scrap trailer and the piston measures about 6".The rod is bent,my guess hydrauliced,and it gets attention when people see it through the window.I wish I knew what it came out of......beside a broken engine.
Whatta month.
I just spent the last three weeks working 7 days to convert 12 engines from regulator/stepper motor fuel control to digital air fuel ratio controllers.
With my background in controls wiring, I helped do the install.
Pretty cool stuff.
Went from this on both banks.
To this.
With a lot of this....
We don't stop playing because we grow old....
We grow old because we stop playing.
I remember my father driving his shiny new 1976 Ford Econoline van home from the dealer, he got one mile down the road and suddenly there was this banging noise. They pulled the heads and found an air cleaner wing nut bedded into one of the pistons which was strange because there was one on the air cleaner lid. Seems to me I recall they were having some union issues right around then
Just screw it in till it's tight with the lock washer and put the head back on 
