Will it start? 1920's Witte 3 hp hit & miss engine "Jenny" with Wico EK magneto FRUSTRAITING! 

See it run here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AJgBdBK7-SA.html

You gave it a good try. Keep working on it, I'd love to see it run.

Those old engines like that came out in so many different sizes and manufacturers and they ran for years with little maintenance thanks for sharing

You both have all the cool toys!

I’ve got an engine identical to that one. The grease cups only provide lubrication to the babbitt bearings on the crankshaft and connecting rod. The gears and sliding or rotating parts need to be oiled separately. The block would usually crack when somebody forgot to drain the water, having fully intended on running the engine again before it froze but then got sidetracked doing other things and bingo…it was frozen when they got back to it. Rainwater would accumulate in the hopper and do the same thing if the engine was left outside and not covered. The 3 hp wouldn’t power a threshing machine but was usually used to turn a Pumpjack on a water well or to run a line shaft in a small farm shop or a small buzz-saw and other low horsepower applications. I’ve got a photo of my grandfather and his two brothers using a buzz-saw with two McCormick Deering engines driving it at the same time. The bigger engines were so cottonpicking heavy that many people went with two smaller ones instead. I’ve got a 6 hp McCormick and it’s a beast. My 6 hp Witte is a heavy one too but not like the McCormick. Yours will be a good engine once you get it to run. One more suggestion if you have a crank for this engine. Pound a nail in a wall and hang it up there for display only. I learned that the hard way when the crank gets pushed off as the engine fires. I’d been really cranking hard and the swivel handle allowed the opposite end of the crank to swing around and get between the spokes of the flywheel. The crank handle broke instantly but many bad things could have happened instead. My hand didn’t end up there, I didn’t get the crank in the teeth, things like that. My crank is now brazed and hanging on display.

I have been to shows where some people have used model T Ford buzz coils and a 6 volt battery to run their engines if it did not have a mag. Or if it just had a hammer spark ignitor they would hook up a battery to that. And old legend out there is that some people would use the batteries from a crank telephone then in use to run their engines. Of course if the batteries ran down by the time the job was done, both the engine and their telephone were out of commission

It will start, just was not gonna happen today

These hit and miss engines are fun things. Still being used in India and Pakistan a lot these days. There are different designs of these engines I have seen over the years. But they all have had the water jacked cracked and repaired multiplied times. It's harder to see one that has not had the water jacket repaired at some point. Some very large ones the operator had to constantly oil the rod and journals. So if it was running there was no room for slacking on your job.

Love the champion box!

Those plugs can be taken apart for cleaning up and yes model t used them

Thats amazing that they had a way to charge the magnets power! Just tape some neodinum magnets on there. It will give it one hell of a jump Also guys like you are slowly dissappearing... and it kills me!! We need men like you guys god knows if I could keep something alive alone even if I am good at working on engines

God I wish America would go back to making these engines honestly just good lasting stuff that I a young guy can give to my grandchildren and the won't have issues with it if they just upkeep on it...

So if it’s a hit and miss does that mean for every 2 revolutions the spark plug only fires once? How does the coil know when to hit and when to miss? Does the gas in the carburetor miss the same time the coil does? How did they engineer that so it stays timed? Happy new year Aaron and the cleaner and your Grandpa and all your families 😀🇨🇦

OMG!!! At one time I had 6 or 7 hit and miss engines. An old mcCormick tractor. And accessories.

that engine will run 😊😊 U should've cleaned the sparkplug W a wire brush and turn the needle vavle back in 4 the gas and next is 2 clean the points on the magneto U pull that engine over top dead center and pull it over the rest of the way it should run the check may be stuck that's in the gas pick up tube that's in the gas tank if it doesn't pull gas it won't run either 😮😮 that engine does have grease cups U fill them W grease put them back on and turn them down there's 1 also 4 the connecting rod and U still have oil the engine W a oil can the priming cup on the cylinder works just the 1S on the old john deere tractors U aren't use 2 that engine yet 😮😮 turn the cup open it will make easier 2 turn over and after the engine is running U close the cup / I seen a 2 HP engine the same brand that 1 had double piston rings in it I knew the fellow who had it a good friend where ever the engine was from some 1 didn't where 2 get the piston rings from so they went 2 the parts store at that time and them matched up the engine still ran fine it had 6 rings instead of 3 there are places that have parts 4 those engines and there are places that makes piston rings it won't run if there's no gas in the tank 😊😊 OMG 7 12 2O24

Whats one of these worth? A guy is selling one on Facebook marketplace for 120$ idk if I should pick it up. Now that I see it it might be a little different he said his was for a old washing machine

do you happen to know the exact year