Howard rotary hoe , air cooled .

Hi guys, please jog my memory , the air cooled motors ran a heavy oil , Sae , 30/40 probably not heavy enough , but was it Sae 40/50 ? .
Have tried to look it up on Search machine , but not doing to well there.
If any one can give Info , or link , that would help a lot .
Serial number is 33289.
Cheers.

Can't find anything with a quick Google, but my uncle had one years back, was a large single cylinder side valve motor of Howard's own make. Fairly sure we used Castrol GP50 in it.

Yes , I rebuild the motor, years ago , I picked it up with the top half of the motor missing,.
I got a Vee twin motor from the VCC, spare parts shed , used one Barrel and valve plate,and head, NEW piston , Russel Thomas did the work .
No carb , or mag , when I got it.
Old boss at the time said to put a Ford T, carb on it , I got a single mag , and fitted that. Had to use a old oil pump , Gears to flick it the right way.
At the time he said run a heavy oil , my thoughts were that it was About the 40 / 50 weight .
Ran well , pulled hard , but has been parked up for some time.
I have since found on Ebay a picture of that model , they call it a
Howard -mack-2-rotary -hoe.
It has the solid wheels, with rubber tread , so is good that you don't have flat wheels.
I have just dragged it out of the corner, turned it over , has compression , thought I would try to start it , before selling.
Cheers thank you for your post, it helps settle things.

600 CC, so what is that in the old Horse power, ? .
At 1,800 RPM, its not like the modem motors that have high Rev's to get the power.

Be around 14 hp (o:

Thanks jmma , i was thinking 12 hp or so , so close enough .
Cheers.

There were alloy of the howard gems some of them used a dry sump set up with a double tank 1/2 for petrol 1/2 for oil had chain driven magneto for spark and crank start with decompression lever.It was a BSA engine you could buy a bell housing kit to repower them with a kohler K341 but they revved too fast for old guys.They just ran 30 grade oil like most of the old equipment multi grade oil wasn't invented back then.

Yeah, straight 30 - B&S. Is that the one with the angled cams ?