Gardner Engine 8 Cylinder

[SteamShovel1923]

What year is this Gardner engine, they only made them between 1925 thur 1929. The model number on the brass plate reads: GARDNER EIGHT IN-LINE Motor No. MD G22174

Thanks Dan

[1937hd45]

They bought their engines from Lycoming so it may fit other cars from that era.

[K8096]

Is the carburator on that engine a Stromburg UU2 or UUR2?

[SteamShovel1923]

Carb. No. UU-2

Dist. Delco

Model 658K

Ser.487

Generator Delco

Model 949A

Ser. 5066

Starter Delco

Model 1108951

Ser. 3709

[Layden B]

Distributor is Gardner 1928 Model 95

Generator is Velie 1927-8 Model 88

Starter is post 1942

Engine is Lycoming Model MD

[SteamShovel1923]

I understand that these engines were put in Aulburns and other cars but do not know the other makes? Any clues.

Dan

[Ivan Saxton]

This is a late one, 1928 0r 29. Similar engine was in Auburn 115, 120, &125. There ias important difference between these and the earlier 4HM as in the Auburn. They had a Rickardo turbulence cylinder head which would run a much higher compression ratio on the same fuel without detonatio or "knocking". Auburn used a dual throat updraft Schebler carb. There was probably also a difference in cam profile. Roamer also used Lycoming eights of both this size and the smaller 2 7/8'x 4 3/4" G type. The trouble for them was that they apparently overstocked on the earlier non-Rickardo head versions, and continued to use them when the opposition were shifting the scenery much better with the new ones. Maybe Roamer would have remained competitive a little longer if they had ordered the better heads from Lycoming to retrofit to the earlier engines as they built them into cars. Replacement heads would have been cheap in 1929 compared to what was at stake.

Ivan Saxton