Hi Rob- I saw your DEEZIL offerings on eBay and sent you a question. Now I see that you are the same Rob that posts on Everything Diesel. Anyway, I wonder if you would scan the Gordon Burford Deezil instructions and email them to me? Or photocopy and snailmail. Of course I will pay you for your trouble.

BTW, I notice from the photo that your GB Deezil has a different-style prop driver than mine. Mine is like the original Deezil , a thin steel knurled washer with a D-shaped hole to register with the threaded part of the crankshaft, which has a lendtwise flat. Yours is much thicker with a smaller diameter aft section-perhaps mounts with a collet like the Schroeder and CS designs...

Interesting that your original Deezil has good compression. I am in the midst of making a new piston, contrapiston, connecting rod, and wrist pin for mine so I can run it, as my German friend Luitpold has done. Also I really should make a new crankshaft bushing. All the parts of my Deezil are quite good quality (for instance, the cylinder is quite round and has a nice lengthwise taper of a couple of ten thousI could not improve it by lapping). But the fits are not...

Thanks. Regards. -Gary