[TheForge] Re: Continental engine

Mon Sep 8 12:59:00 2003

on 9/7/03 6:50 PM, Larry and Pat Brown at [email protected] wrote:

> 
> I think some of the old Reos used them in addition to Hercules. I've had
> both Hercules and Continental engines on stuff and liked both. If you get
> it running some have a tube from the exhaust to the intake to keep the
> manifold from icing (My tube clogged up, so the governor wouldn't work. I
> went to see why and I had a 6"snow ball around the intake)
> Have fun ;-)
> Larry

You are right about the REO's- I used to have a 49 REO bus, body by
Kenworth, and it was originally equipped with a continental 6. Unfortunately
by the time we got it, someone had put a big ford v8 in it. Not very well
suited to a pusher bus.

Ries