SVRy #100 *PIC*

SVRy #100, still up on blocks and unlettered, but looking good in the new paint job. A significant breakthrough, we've
finally solved the mystery of the rough-running
climax engine. After months of head-scratching, cussing, and casting aspersions on the talents of the carbeurator rebuilder
and the mechanic who ground the valves/ planed the heads, the problem turned out to be nothing more than a partly-plugged
fuel line. There was SOME gas coming through, so we'd passed over it and gone on to looking for other things. Talk about
how a wrong assumption can set a project back! Turns out that old engine has a huge appetite for gasoline. Meet the full
demand and she runs like a top. Starve 'er for fuel, and it won't run for s**t. Wish I had the ability to post an audio
file - #100 starts on the first rev and runs with that full-throated big-bore snarl that even a diesel can't match. The only
thing at Sumpter that sounds similar is the old Baker City ladder truck with it's 6-cyl Buda and 10 ft of straight pipe.
#100 never had a muffler, only the big cast-iron stack. It is loud, authoritative and sounds great.
Yesterday we mounted the air reservoir (seen in the pics underneath the lokie) and plumbed it in. The compressor is
functional, next week we'll hook it all up and give it an air test.
After four+ years, tears, sweat and lots of cussing I'm finally starting to think we'll see this little beastie running ohn
home rails next year after a sixty-year absence.
J