Looking for Waukesha info

[Grant]

Hello all, a couple months ago an old firetruck followed me home (honest!) It has a Waukesha 779 c.i. 6 cylinder gas engine. It started but runs a little rough and I would like to clean and adjust the points on both distributors. I have tried a couple different search engines online but can't find any point gap or dwell settings for these engines. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Grant

[Steve Frazier]

Hi Grant!!

Welcome to HeavyEquipmentForums!!:drinkup

If no one responds here, you can try joining the American Truck Historical Society (http://www.aths.org) . There are quite a few members there that restore fire trucks and the classified section is great for finding parts for the job.

Good luck!

[Grant]

Thanks Steve, I'll check that out. Hard to believe I can't find anything on the net about them big boys.

[Dwan Hall]

Would be nice if you could post a few pictures of your stray.

[salesrep]

Is this the same waukesha in Wi. If it is they still produce natural gas engines for industry. They may have info. Just a thought.

[badranman]

Does this (http://www.ytmag.com/store/product_files/WKS140145_5291.htm) help you any Grant? It's a manual but it's for sale. They have lots of others on the site too if this isn't the exact one.

[Grant]

Now that the weather has calmed down a bit, I'll see if I can post a pic. The truck is a 1955 Oren, built from Corbitt trucks. Only 17,000k on the speedo, typical fire truck. Salesrep, I would assume they are the same engine, they could afford to run them, pumping thier own fuel. Badranram, that does look like the manual for this engine, if I decide to keep it I'll order one. I'm hoping I can find time to tinker with it this weekend, depending if the sugar maples decide to take off again. (had a nice run 2 weeks ago) Thanks all!