Any member need a couple of Autolite 2554 plugs?

They fit all this yard equipment.

Hate to throw them out, but my equipment roster just changed.

Dang! I wuz lookin' for some for my Ford diesel van...

I do have some glow plugs, but I don't think they would fit a Ford. Maybe a Dooling.



Wouldja look at those transfer port passages? Have ya ever seen such mechanical beauty?

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Need spark plugs for my carbureted diesel...

Plugs have a happy home now.

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Originally posted by Rusty:
Need spark plugs for my carbureted diesel...

When did carbureted diesels fade away?

I had an OK Cub diesel with a carb..........

I had McCoy diesel .049

I had a pair of Baby Bee 0.049s, not sure but one wasn't from '49

As I recall, the Dooling first came out as a model race car engine, not for aircraft models. Anyway, at the time they were above my pay grade, as were Ohlssons, Hornets, & some others.

Over the years I had a couple Atoms (an engineering tour-de-force - no transfer ports, a 2-piece piston that popped open a port in the main piston when it hit bottom, to allow the fuel to enter the cylinder. Worked fine as long as there was zero friction between the main piston & the sub-piston.

They were followed by a Vivell 35, the best of the engines I owned, & a Cannon (29?). The Cannon wouldn't turn up many revs, but it would swing a bigger prop than any other engine its size. I also had a G.H.Q. given to me, a real slug I never could get to run, & a Husky that I bought (big mistake) & could never get started.

Glow plugs & alky-based fuels were just coming in when the Army got me. Never went back to modeling, but I still have a Megow kit for a J-3 Cub, that I bought in 1946. Some day I'll get a round tuit & build it.

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Originally posted by olroy:
As I recall, the Dooling first came out as a model race car engine, not for aircraft models.

They certainly could use their speed in cars. Some pylon racers used them, but most of us pattern or combat fliers didn't need or couldn't use the speed.

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Over the years I had a couple Atoms (an engineering tour-de-force - no transfer ports, a 2-piece piston that popped open a port in the main piston when it hit bottom, to allow the fuel to enter the cylinder. Worked fine as long as there was zero friction between the main piston & the sub-piston.

Makes me think of the early Gnome Monosoupapes.

I can't spell Megow, either.

My first Big Engine was an Ohlsson&Rice (remember, they were O&R) .29 - long stroke, swung a big prop. Then a K&B .35 (which was my primary stunt engine for years - I was always kind of anti-Fox). Trips to the Far East in the '60s yielded pairs of OS Max .19s R/Cs and .60 R/Cs, and an OS Max .29R not available in the States, ever. Then there was an Enya .45 R/C and an OS Max .35 R/C. When I sold off all my airplane stuff in the '80s, I tripled what I'd paid for everything over the years, since so much was by then "classic". The guy who bought the .29R absolutely killed the Rat Racers using .35s.