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Looking for Waukesha info

Grant

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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
 

Grant

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

salesrep

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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

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Does this 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

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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!
 
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