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1965 clark forklift6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He's been using his bobcat to unload the trucks, but it's been bugging me and I'd like to fix it for him if I can. These trucks are intended for use outdoors on. Why would a cylinder with good spark and good compression not fire? I've never worked on a flathead and I looked but couldn't find any access to check the valve adjustment, is there one? Could the intake valve not be opening all the way? What could cause this? These trucks make up the largest group of forklifts and lift trucks. I didn't do the compression test myself, so maybe that cylinder took longer to come up to pressure, but it seems odd. The fact that it has good compression and spark sorta has me stumped. I happened to come by while he was doing a compression test and the dead cylinder (to my surprise) had the best compression of all 4 cylinders? I told him about the dead cylinder and he was still trying to blaim the carb, typical. Instead he had another mechanic come to look at it when he couldn't get started one morning (after using it several times since I rebuilt the carb). I left a message for the owner to call me because I wanted to tell him he had a dead cylinder. I pulled the plug and checked the spark and it is fine. I did the one spark plug wire off at a time trick and the 3rd cylinder is dead. I assumed the other mechanic had at least troubleshooted the motor a little bit, but unfortunately I didn't check the motor out before rebuilding the carb and when I put the carb back on it still ran almost as bad. He was still having trouble so I offered to rebuild the carb (Zenith). He had a diesel mechanic do a tune up on it (plugs, cap, rotor, points.). By 1966, the one-room country school had become a thing of the past.Our local feed store has a forklift that has never run very well since they purchased it (low power, barely makes it up slight incline). School districts consolidated, pooling their resources to provide more teachers, broader curriculum, and opportunity for extracurricular activities. Equipped with little more than a blackboard and a few textbooks, teachers passed on to their pupils cultural values along with a sound knowledge of the three Rs.īy the turn of the century, the population began to shift to the cities and country schools began to lose students and tax support. She had to be a nurse, janitor, musician, philosopher, peacemaker, wrangler, fire stoker, baseball player, professor, and poet for less than $50 a month. The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual. Need help with identification and a few questions. When they arrived on their first day of school they may have only known how to speak a foreign language but they soon learned how to speak, read, spell, and write English. Clark UNK: Old Clark ID and questions Took the plunge and bought an old Clark forklift. They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. The children who attended ranged in age from five to 21 and endured dust storms, prairie fires, and cattle drives swirling past the school house in order to get an eighth grade education. They were called names like Prairie Flower, Buzzard Roost, and Good Intent. For a hundred years, white frame or native stone one-room schoolhouses dotted the section corners across Kansas. i recently purchased a 1965 c40 clark forklift. ![]()
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