OUR MODEL OIL PULL

6767 Riverview Drive, Route 2 Kalamazoo, Michigan

John Spaman, a steam lover since goodness knows when, has always
wanted to build his nephew, Greg Peet, a little tractor. In
February 1958 things began to shape up. Eldon White found a 1926
International Harvester 1? hp gasoline engine with throttling
governor.

Then we started looking for a rocker arm which was broken off.
We finally found one in a junk yard. We picked up other parts here
and there when we found them.

Early October we hauled the parts we had to a little welding
shop about 10 miles from our home. We worked on it week ends and
spare nights. October 25 we hauled the nearly finished ‘oil
pull’ home.

We had a metal tank made to improve appearance and we have the
exhaust piped to it.

The first time we ran it assembled, was a jerky operation
because the gasket to the carburetor was missing. It runs fine
now.