Jun 24,25,26

The Whitcomb has 2 Zenith carburetors and 2 governor bodies The governor linkage did not fit up well so I decided that the governors were facing the wrong way. So I had to take them off make new gaskets and put them back on with the linkage facing in. I wired the coil, voltage regulator, and magneto. The cotter pins in the air compressor connecting rod were not through the castle nuts. I tried some different things and ended up putting lock washer under the nuts to bring them down far enough for the cotter pins to be effective. I crawled under the back axle to connect the clutch linkage. I found I had to loosen the clutch air cylinder to get the pin in the linkage. I did find the grease fittings for the axles. They are hard to get to without getting under the axles between the wheels.

June 17,18,19

Hank and I went up to the museum to work on the Whitcomb. It rained all 3 days. Ray and Steve spiked down rail into some new ties, getting ready for a CSX engine to come for a fire exercise. Hank ground off the bolts on the radiator grill because they were too rusty to be unbolted. We also had to grind off some of the 16 bolts in the bottom tank. We bolted in 'C' channel brackets which will connect to the 1/4 plate we are putting on the bottom of the radiator to seal the ice crack. We laid the new steel plate in and measured for the bolt pattern. I mounted the governors, the 2 carburetors and the magneto. Hank made gaskets for the valve covers. We got soaked through to our underwear.

June 2,3,4

I put the reconditioned valves back in the air compressor. I took a passenger car battery which was new, to bulldog battery in Cleveland. They put battery acid in it and I took it back. Cyd helped me get it in the Whitcomb. I bought a 30 gallon drum to replace the gas tank. I put a 3/8 ball valve on it. I thought we might be able to close the split in the bottom of the radiator with a steel plate. I measured and drew plans for the fix. I bought 2 pieces of “C” channel and a piece of ¼ plate. Hank drilled it to match the bolt pattern on the bottom radiator tank.