Yep! Knew I'd seen one before. Not completely senile yet.
Even though the two engines are made by different companies all parts are totally interchangeable, and identical in every way.In fact wackerneuson still use a slightly modified version of this engine today called the WM80.
Nice display , you seem to be making good progress. I am looking forward to see the sachs diesel project as i picked up one of those engines up a few months back...owner gave up on trying to start it and put a kohler on instead.
Thanks pat, as I said I've resurrected this project to mainly give me practice at spraying again. Am particuarly aware that with having a bonnet the Sachs gem is going to have a bigger surface area than most to show up the flaws. The deadline for the Sachs is October but I've also got to get another one finished before then as well,plus a very busy full time job, plus a family life, plus....
Got to admit this Hako is making a nice change to the sheer enormity of a gem.
Looks good. A little tip I've found with these Villiers tanks is if you bare metal where the cap seal goes it stops the paint being lifted by petrol seepage around the neck.
Howard Hako
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Made a bit more progress today. You may of noticed that the
rear wheels look like they are off a golf trolley or similar.
Looking at the brochure I noticed that they looked very similar
to Landmaster Wheels so I purchased a set off ebay and
painted them up. They have been in store for a few years, so
today I dug them out and am going to have to give the tyres a
clean up, but apart from that they are nearly ready to fit.