At 11:10 AM 5/16/96 PDT, you wrote:
>Jim McDougal added:
>
>> Not to make this situation any more complex than it already is, My
>> housemate has a motorcycle with a one cylinder, four stroke engine. It is
>> a Suzuki Savage, and I imagine that the flywheel is weighted to allow it
>> to run, but I wouldn't be calling the people at Guiness just yet.
>
>Hoping to make this situation more complex, _I_ once saw a Midget run on
>two cylinders with no spark! The owner wanted to increase compression
>but was too cheap to buy different pistons so he had a lot of metal shaved
>off the bottom of the head. With two spark plugs out and no spark plug
>wires connected, he was turning the engine over by hand to adjust the valves
>when the thing started. It didn't run well or long, but it ran. So much
>metal had been shaved off the head that the engine had been turned into a
>diesel. He had to replace the head. Feel free to dispute this; I'm not
>sure I'm alive unless someone's contradicting me. ;-)
>
>Denise Thorpe
>thorpe@kegs.saic.com
Denise,
maybe he had the spark plugs in but not connected.....otherwise, how did he
get compression with the spark plubs out!?
Don Mathis,Ph.D.
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