Mikestem
Regardin the timin on your Waukesha, in the late sixtys when I entered the fire department they were starting to put diesel engines in the new fire engines, in the station I worked at the back up engine was a KW with a Hall Scott engine, several of the stations had trucks with Waukesha engines, the old timer mechanies would come by to check the timin on the gas burners, they were all set the same way- bring number one to TDC, static time the distributor so the points were just starting to open. The carbuators were set on the rich side so that they would lean out when under a load, this would make for some excitin runs as the engines would tend to backfire as you would slow down and then speed up, at night you would see a good three foot flame out the end of the exhaust. The secret to starting these big guys,is to pull the choke all the out turn on the ignition, push the starter button, as soon as it starts to crank push in the choke, do not touch the gas, the engine should fire right off. Once running wait for the oil pressure to stop climbing, if you have enough air pressure to move, then your ready to roll(highway to the danger zone) these were great old trucks and great old engines. Thanks for the menories.
Rob
run they may shine they must
