Need help on who made this

[Scheetz83]

I hope i am in the right area, I thought about putting this under the tractor talk forum but i will give here a shot If there is a better place for this to go please let me know

I have an old 6cyl motor mounted to a 15kw power plant but the tag dose not tell who made the engine. could any one help me identify the manufacturer of the engine? Or any other information on it I am wondering if the 5-1934 is the DOB but i don't think it is that old. Then again what do i know about it.


Engine tag info

6-110-7g 4x4 3/4
35692 5-1934
2500 "idle"

[John Schwiebert]

Well it is an overhead valve engine and juding by the plate on the side it is dry sleeve engine. Are there any casting numbers on the block or head?

[Bud Tierney]

Wellll...here's a quick guess: Wauk built a 6-110, and my 50 Motor Truck/Trktr manual shows it as a 6cyl F-head (one valve in head, one in block) of 4x43/4 b/s...but in my very limited experiece I had the impression Wauk always had "Waukesha" cast prominently into the engine somewhere, often on the exhaust manifold. John can advise us on that point. The whole Wauk section, besides basic specs, is only 3+ pages, and sleeves aren't even mentioned. NOTE: if it is a Wauk, my book has a special paragraph about removing and replacing rocker (arm?) assemblies on 6-110 and 6-125's.
If a wrong guess, see if there're tags on the starter, gen, dist or carb; some parts catalogs exist showing what the various models were originally used on, and it might be ID'd that way. Good luck.

[Bud Tierney]

Oops: Forgot to add, as to DOB, a quick eyeballing of a couple Wauk users in parts catalogs finds the 6-110 in the 33-35 Available W300 and the 34-35 Sterling FB80. Latest I noted was Sterling J in 1939, but a real search could find much later use. Good luck.

[PFT]

Bud may be correct about your engine being a Waukesha. It is definatley an F-head engine, having the exhaust manifold on the block and the intake on the head. PT

[Bud Tierney]

Uuuuhhhhhh...I just realised something's cast into the front of the radiator top...what's it say?...or can you post a pic??... (so I looked at the engine, not the radiator...no one's perfect). (the older I get, the less I see).