Picked up an old baker forklift yesterday and started tinkering on it immediately. It’s in fair shape I guess. Runs pretty good but smokes a little. It might need a head gasket. Little looking indicates that it’s got a continental Y112 flathead engine. It seems to have been running on gasoline at some point, and there’s ancient smelly goop in the fuel tank, but it’s been converted to propane.
Couple questions if anyone is familiar with these. One, how does the automatic trans work? It seems to provide fwd and rev but it has an odd behavior, when on slopes it doesn’t want to go as rpm increases, but just off idle it does try to catch you can feel it. But then it loses the torque from engine. Hard to explain. Feels like it low on fluid and raised rpm pumps it dry or something and starves it.
Second is the cylinders. They are smooth and don’t really leak but there is a tiny bit of weep around them. I don’t think they warrant resealing yet, but I was wondering if any miracle seal swell or similar would be recommended or if that’s just lame.
Couple questions if anyone is familiar with these. One, how does the automatic trans work? It seems to provide fwd and rev but it has an odd behavior, when on slopes it doesn’t want to go as rpm increases, but just off idle it does try to catch you can feel it. But then it loses the torque from engine. Hard to explain. Feels like it low on fluid and raised rpm pumps it dry or something and starves it.
Second is the cylinders. They are smooth and don’t really leak but there is a tiny bit of weep around them. I don’t think they warrant resealing yet, but I was wondering if any miracle seal swell or similar would be recommended or if that’s just lame.