Another Eastern Europe beauty!!

[Murphyv310]

And this!!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_engine

[Refugee]

And then there were three crank shafts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bj47TAYiU

[Murphyv310]

The Napier engine is indeed an interesting unit.
The different configurations that have been invented over the years is far more than we would think.

[Alistair D]

And for even more variety the H24

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-ob...-24-engine

Al

[boater sam]

There is a Ford V4 engine that runs anticlockwise, it was fitted to German Transits. It had a lock nut on the front pulley to stop it unscrewing. And I think a starting handle dog!
I know this because a friend in another garage had problems getting one to charge the battery, it was a dynamo and control box system. It had come as a camper from Germany.
He changed the dynamo, control box and wired it directly and still no charge.
I had a look, realised it ran the opposite way. Changing the dynamo field winding over to the opposite side of the brush gear and flashing it to magnetise it the opposite polarity worked.
As to whether this engine was ever fitted to any other Taunus or Ford I don't know.

[boater sam]

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[Murphyv310]

Hi.
I see you have deleted your post Sam. I have to say there are some that have been fed rather a lot of misinformation about the British and German Ford V4 engines. Both rotate clockwise looking at the front of the engine. My brother had a Corsair V4 and my Dad swapped his Moskvitch for a Zephyr MK4 V6 that is basically a V4 with two extra cylinders. All of these run clockwise.
Can you actually imagine a penny pinching company like Ford having to redesign the gearbox to accept a reversed direction engine? The cut of the gears would need to be redone and Ford tended to use one box across the range.
Where most folk got mixed up was identifying the balance shaft as the crankshaft which quite obviously ran anticlockwise.
So it makes not a bit of sense to make an engine to run anticlockwise when all others don't.

Oh and on the V4 the generator and water pump was driven via the balance shaft, as I've already pointed out in a previous post.

[boater sam]

S o r r y Trevor, I must disagree. My memory on this is very clear, (unlike on some things!)

That V4 in the German Transit definitely ran in reverse as unlikely as it seems. The friend I referred to was ex AA, it confused him no end. I was quite smug at the time and wouldn't tell him why it wouldn't charge at first, he hadn't spotted it.

Once we had reversed the dynamo field, it charged. There was no figure of 8 in the fan belt!

There was certainly a lock nut arrangement on the crank pulley which was a right hand thread.
Outwardly the engine looked normal, as did the rest of the van.
The starter motor would have been off an engine where it was on the other side of the engine, easy to source.

Rather than a special gearbox, they either put the diff in cack handed or had the axle upside down.
I remember putting a diff in a Morris Minor 180 degrees out for a joke one day, Oh how we did laugh!

Left handed Ford engines were not totally uncommon, many Zephyr MkII & MkIII straight 6 motors were made and used as marine engines usually on water jet drives, I worked on lots of them back in the '70s.
Its only a cam shaft change that determines the direction of rotation after all. 

I agree that the Saab was as you say.

Sam.

[Murphyv310]

Sam you are mistaken.
The drive is taken from the balance shaft not the crank,  the balance shaft runs counter clockwise.
Have a look on the internet,  nowhere will you find that the engine runs in reverse.
So those that fit a pinto would then have 4 reverse gears, not a thing about it on ford forums or anywhere, I've spent hours checking im correct.

[boater sam]

I deleted because it was a duplicate.

As to the Wartburg, I had one in the showroom in the late '60s, early '70s. It was a commission deal with another trader.

It stuck for months, some of the doors wouldn't open and it had some horrible rust spots on the roof.

As it wasn't ours, we didn't fix it until we had a mug, er, punter, interested.

A guy walked in one day, his car had expired up the road and he wanted a cheap motor urgently.
Espying the Warty, he was interested  but asked what had happened to the roof.
We said that they were the warts! We explained it had been here too long and why.
He was tickled and wanted to buy if we could get it running.
That old 2 stroke fired up and ran like a dream, he had it for some time and used to come in for fuel regularly, never did fix the warts though we got the doors to work for him.

Thinking back we sold some horrible motors, NSU, Moskovich, Pontiac, Ford  Galaxy etc.