travelover
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I think you are right.That looks like an old briggs & stratton flat head. Not a 2 stroke.
I think you are right.That looks like an old briggs & stratton flat head. Not a 2 stroke.
That looks like an old briggs & stratton flat head. Not a 2 stroke.
1956 Briggs & Stratton model WMB. In1952 Maytag quit making their 2 stroke washing machine engine and turned to Briggs to supply engines.
I'm not going to go any further with restoration, anyway not at this time. The interesting thing to me is, since I retired I have tackled more projects, then I would ever have dreamed I could.
That looks like an old Briggs & Stratton flat head. Not a 2 stroke.
Here is what I have:Hmmm. So it looks like this is not a Maytag engine at all, but a B&S, and maybe not that old.
I did another search, and the Maytag engines all look like the one in post #2 - no head (one piece head/cylinder/ports), no place for valves, so those must be 2 stroke.
This site says the B&S aren't that old:
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/threads/need-a-washing-machine-engine-history-lesson.55874/
That video of the B&S looks like Streets, but a little hard to compare.
Either way, very interesting.
-ERD50
I like those old manuals as much as the items they’re related to. So much detail. I had an old Troy Built roto-tiller and found the manual. It was amazing at all the information that was in the manual. One of the regular replacement items were the seals around the axels. The manual even directed you to the right size of pipe and a washer to use to hammer the new seal in evenly. Worked like a charm.