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<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/81998/dscn5808_medium.jpg"></center><p>Found this little guy in a junk heap behind a cabin in Canada, We have a cabin very close by and I had stuffed it under our boathouse about 8 years ago. This year I had to re-do the supports on the front end of the boathouse, in one of my relatives infinite wisdom, they took everything from under the boathouse and hauled it up into the woods and made a nice pile-o-trash, which was fine except for the fact that I'm not really into just dumping huge piles of trash in the woods!, so I had to spend a fair amount of time cleaning up the items back in the woods that wouldn't degrade pretty quickly. Anyhow my motor I stowed under the boathouse was found back in the woods with the trash. My parents knew the previous owner, who had left his place abandoned (hence my junk heap scavenging), he lived there all year and had a homemade ice boat that he was powering with this engine.

I could not figure out what it was, but its only method of starting was via the prop shaft, so it appeared to be an airplane motor, but really small only big enough for an ultralight or something. Had a carter ball and ball carb on that says made for cord/Chrysler and I figured that was not original.

I started taking it apart and after removing a peice of rubber material that I assumed was a bushing on the prop shaft section of the case I uncovered the serial tag for it. It was a WW2 era 0-45-35 Keikhaefer engine, made by Carl Keikhaefer for the army and navy under contract in his production plant that would later become mercury marine.

This little 2 cycle 2 cylinder made 35HP, and is 45 cu. in. displacement

The only application of the motor i can find is use in the Radioplane OQ-14, unmanned drone.

I've been able to find a little more info on this engines little brother the 0-45-1, but the only 0-45-35 I can find is located in museum storage in new england.

So I figure I've found out most of its history but I figured maybe some other motorheads might know something, or some tidbit of info that might be interesting.

I figure I will try my best to get it apart and clean it up, but as of right now i cant get the case open, the driveshaft is rusted and holding things together very tight. Any suggestion are welcome, I've tried a bunch of pb-blaster, and oil, and about a week of waiting and re-soaking.

I've been working on making some engine tables, I have a 350 table and an old alfa 4 cylinder, I figure I could probably paint it up nicely and maybe make a prop for it even if i cant get it un-frozen.

Eh, anyway it seemed interesting to me.

Paul

Kneale Brownson

Try soaking with a 50-50 mix of automatic transmission fluid and acetone.

MrGoodbytes

WOW, that has to be worth something!!

rooster 2

I saw some interesting motors like that in cars. Toyota had a 2 cylinder motor in a very small sports car. The horizontal lay out was the same, but think the Toyota motor was 4 cycle, and was water cooled. I remember that its performance was peppy enough in a very small car with a 4 speed stick. It had an unusal exhaust sound, kinda made a "thumpy thumpy thumpy" sound as it drove down the street. This, and a number of other unusual Japanese cars were never exported to the U.S.

The cooling fin lay out on the motor in your picture suggest an aircraft application, as you mentioned, or it is maybe a motor from an old BMW motorcyle.

rmccomiskie

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