New Way Engine - Pitfalls

New - Way's wonderfull "GOES AND GOES RIGHT" advertising slogan no doubt sold many an engine and probably well deserved to say the least. That said, it is not all plain sailing for the uninitiated.

New - Way Owners Pitfalls !!!

• Don't set the Oil drip feed too fast - eventually the crank case will over fill and your New Way aircooled engine will likely start spewing oil everywhere.
• Rich Mixture / Too much oil in cylinder- Carbon deposits in the combustion chamber may occur that glow and result in preignition. Indicated if motor continues running when you've shut the ignition down. May be treated temporarily with kerosene to remove deposits but you need to  identify cause and permanently correct.
• Weak batteries with Buzz ignition - Motor will likely start. Symptoms -slowly loose power (or stop) and likely misfire from weak spark. Always disconnect batteries to prolong battery life - even overnight.
• Flick the drip feeder off when motor shut down - Failure will also eventually overfill the crankcase etc.
• Fan oil line check valve sticks - Cylinder mounted fans have an in line valve that can stick closed. Tap valve to free it up ensuring oil mist is feeding the fan shaft. Remove gummy oil deposits from valve and oil line if necessary. NOTE:- Oiling mist in line to fan is reliant on adequate crank case pressure.
• Don't push the piston in too far - Rings may catch on a rebate at the top of the cylinder when restoring and assembling . It's best to connect the rod to the crank early to stop the nightmare this action may give.
• Oil Mud on Cylinder Fins and Overheating - Don't let your New - Way's  propensity to be an oily machine to build a thick coating of oil mud on the cylinder cooling fins. It has the potential to insulate the cylinder from air cooling and overheat your motor which can be disasterous for ring tensions and bore.
• Don't forget to always tighten the Sparkplug - Some New - Way's  have high intake lift and you may be inclined to give it a snort of fuel to start it more readily. Forget to tighten and you may find you have launched a very powerful and dangerous missile after an extended period of running. Be assured it has happened - be careful.
• Joint sealing is critical on high lift air intakes -New - Way uses press fit sealing on their intake pipe at mixer and cylinder on some models. With high lift intakes, a good seal is essential for correct mix and power - ensure air isn't being sucked in. (put fluid on the joints to detect leaks with motor running)
• 4 Gear Drive Ignition and Exhaust Valve Timing  - Don't fiddle unless you know what you are doing New - Way even suggests you don't disturb. If you must, ensure you mark gears (pin punch) and restore.
• Don't know what you are doing? - Welcome to the club, you aren't the first - You've had a go - call on another enthusiast they are usually only too happy to help you out, in fact they have probably been there before. (Though they mightn't admit it!)

New Way Sales - Outfits by Design, Excellence and Function

ENVIRONMENT and a rapidly evolving WORKPLACE provided the challenge of the day.

New Way Motor Company determines to meet the challenge of their day with excellence and innovation. Prepared to ride the wave of demand and to tailor their machines to match a harsh climate and the climate of fast procedural change in the fields of a national progress they expand to the point where it is said they operated the largest manufacturing facility for Air Cooled Engines in the world.

From the fields of maize, to the wells of black gold, word is out that New Way Engine is the machine and that the New Way Motor Company has an ear to the ground. Their advertising campaign is aimed, targeted and focused across a wide gamut of workplace related literature. Ready to respond to the farmer, trade, drill rig operator or industrialist they offer a range of options to outfit their engines for many facets of industry.

They match their machines with claims of reliability, excellence of workmanship and a minimalist maintenance regeim to allow even the most mechanically challenged to operate and maintain their Outfits.

Outfit they did, and listen they did and so New Way produced not just motors but tailored outfits to slot into many a workplace or farm. Promoting a penchant for productivity they march in a short 35 year time slot in time commencing in 1905.

You look at your hard work, look at a New Way Outfit and you immediately have visions of enhanced productivity. You're a farmer, a tradesman an industrialist and productivity is the name of your game. The advertising is done, the seed is planted and the workplace idea has jelled. It is time to employ the local grape vine and to make a move on your workplace. The grapevine is reliable as it is good, you choose New Way as the source to Outfit your workplace.

It's time to call the Dealer, in all likelihood the John Deere Plough Company or Moffat Virtue to make sure the detail matches the claim. Of course like all salesmen, they can be relied upon for an unbiased opinion. That aside there was a New Way Motor Company guarantee and generous warranty provisions for the buyer that made the New Way a very low risk investment no matter what New Way Outfit Number you chose.

So you've made the deal and headed to base with the latest in mechanical marvel ready to do wonders in your workplace. What did you buy? Why of course nothing but the ultimate New Way Outfit to suit your workplace in any Engine colour you like so long as it was the New Way flagship colors.

Outfits optioned (Detailed in The "New Way" Air Cooled Engines Catalogue D11) to match the Workplace included:-

• New Way Engine from 1 to 12 HP  mounted on skid or hand truck.
• New Way Engine on towable mobile steel truck for portability to facilitate multifunctional use.
• New Way Portable Saw Rig on towable mobile steel truck
• New Way 21/2 and 31/2 HP Force Pumper mounted on skid or hand truck
• New Way "Success" Power Spray Pump/Sprayers - Farm spray outfits with or without Tank
• New Way "Special" Power Spray Pump/Sprayers - Farm spray outfits with or without Tank

You found that variants in Outfits was possible to suit your workplace further illustrating New Way's intention of service to the customer. Your workplace was to be equipped with the most up to date New Way Motor Company product designed for simplicity, portability and likely, most of all reliability.

THE NEW WAY ENGINE - "GOES AND GOES RIGHT" -  QUALITY COUNTS

Sometimes though, New Way had a mis-strike in their quality control as illustrated in the spelling of company on this flywheel. (Click photo for expanded view)

Refer to Identification Table (click for page) for basic motor specs of many new way Motors.

New Way Motor Company - Engine Outfits - "Motor Order Options"

New Way Motor Company produced Motors that were generally defined by Series/Model/Type. Outfit Numbers were used for sales in dealerships to define optioning of their motors for ordering and used in the field of ignition, means of lubrication and "New Way" engine attachments.(eg Saw, Mixer, Pump, Spray Pump etc)

In other words the New Way Outfit Number (alpha numeric code) was related to the optioning of a total sales package of which the motor HP was just a part. Ref table below for examples of Outfit Number usage.

1st digit

• "K" Outfit indicates Dry Cell battery Ignition fitted
• "L" Outfit indicates a combination of "New Way" friction magneto and dry cells
• "M" Outfit indicates Bosch High Tension Ignition

2nd Digit - HP of outfit - eg 2 =2½Hp 

3rd Digit - Skid mounted outfit "0"  or  Wheeled Hand Truck mounted outfit "1"

Further Digits (if used) - Relate to the outfit attachment if fitted (eg Saw)

Please note the use of outfit "M" should in no way be confused with Series "M" New Way motors. They are separate entities.

Further details are obtainable in the New Way D-11 Catalogue, available for purchase on the internet etc..

Finding your New Way Engine Serial Number and AGE

New Way Engines did not always have an ID plate that readily identified a particular engine's SERIAL No., MODEL or TYPE. The following should allow you to locate the Serial No. for your particular engine.

• New Way Type D Vertical - Brass I.D. plate on crankcase on the carburettor side with serial number stamping.
• New Way Type C Vertical - Brass I.D. plate on crankcase on the carburettor side with serial number stamping.
• New Way Series J Horizontal (Jewel) - No I.D Plate. A Serial No. stamping is located on a ground flat on the top side of the cylinder flange where it bolts to the Crank housing.
• New Way Series M Vertical - No I.D Plate. The Serial No. stamping is similar to the Jewel, located on the cylinder flange where it bolts to the Crank housing.
• New Way Series S Twin horizontal - Brass I.D. plate on crankcase cover moulding facing upwards practically in the centre of the motor has the serial number stamping.
• New Way Series S Standard horizontal  - Brass ID plate is mounted on the top of the crankcase cover between the flywheels.
• New Way Series F Vertical - Brass I.D. plate on crankcase on the carburettor side should show a serial number stamping.
• New Way Series A Vertical Model CH - aluminium plate on shroud has serial on top left hand corner or if plate badly corroded may also be found stamped on flywheel near timing marks on the flat outer flywheel face.
  NOTE- S/N 5598 was fitted to a Feb 1923 Centaur Tractor
• New Way Series A Vertical Model DH - aluminium plate on shroud under decompression lever.
• New Way Series A Vertical TWIN Model EH - Brass plate on front top of shroud or stamped on the end of cylinder flange where it bolts to C/Case. 
• New Way Series A Vertical TWIN Model GH - Brass plate on front top of shroud
• New Way Series A Vertical Model JH - Brass plate on front of shroud 

AGE:- New Way Motor Company does not have a straight forward method of allocating serial numbers tied to year of manufacture. Consequently use of serial number alone is not a means of determining age.

• A particular model motor with a serial number and a dated sales invoice provides a dating reference that others can use to date their motors of the same model.
• Like cars today, New Way introduced changes within models that give pointed guidance to age. eg use of flat or round fan belts. Knowing dates of changes allows some reasonable age determinations. This is particularly applicasble to the CH model ( promoted as 5 engines in 1) which was produced for around 10 years.
• Use of patent dates provides a very rough guide to age at best
• Knowing when a Series / Model was introduced allows you to determine its earliest possible date.

Can you help your fellow New Way Enthusiasts?

If you have a motor with an invoice date, Please contact me via my email as these definite datings can be used to reference other enthusiasts motors to give a close to accurate age. I am in the process of building a reference table to accomodate this data.

My email  is geo.covey@gmail.com

I will need the following to provide meaningfull data for others to use:

• Model and Type
• Serial Number
• Invoice Date

Cheers

A NEW WAY Hit and Miss Engine - How it works

My very considered opinion on the operation and workings of the New Way Hit Miss Engine.
NOTE:- Understanding this is important for tuning your engine.

• 1st - Manual labour - A crank at the crank. Hand hard pressed on the intake valve spring - revs OK. Hand off, you wait for that first choof!! Keep cranking!!
• First the engine takes a gulp of fresh air (hopefully without dust from the sawbench or corn thresher)
• The air passes into the mixer (dinosaur carburettor) past a single jet or if you are into the inovative model you may also find a fuel needle involved. (What complexity the ultimate in ensuring the correct fuel mix.)
• Then you may ask how does this fuel/air mixture get into the cylinder? Well, of course it uses the New Way Automatic Intake Valve. How does this work? Well it's complexity and simplicity all wrapped together.
• The piston goes down and this of course sucks hard and the only thing that can move is the spring loaded intake valve. Of course this needs to be timed in accordance with your motors compression/wear. Intake Valve Timing - well you just adjust the spring tension so the valve opens to let in the correct amount of the mixture. Less compression? Of course you are right - you need less tension on the intake spring.
• So the gulp of fresh air is mixed and makes it into the cylinder and gets compressed. Lo and behold along comes a spark around the time the piston reached the top of the cylinder (TDC). To get this spark New Way Motor Company either used Low Tension Battery/Magneto with a coil or on the high faluting versions a High Tension Magneto. Timing of this HT magneto spark is fixed with a chain or gears - regular and reliable as clockwork.
• Your timing's right? So the mixture explodes, the New Way shudders, the flywheel evens out the pulse of POWER and the engine starts to spin up toward its governed revs. A few more gulps, more sparks and next thing we are at governed revs. Mechanical genius and technology to the rescue - we have got to stop this thing.
• Flywheel spinning, beware! Fingers away, its govenor weights let loose, centrifically thrown, a lever actuates and slams into the path of the exhaust valve. The MISS.
• Exhaust Valve held open - no piston suction on the intake valve - spring holds intake closed. No fuel, no gulp of mixture, no power and the New way starts to slow toward governed speed. (be warned though, if your intake spring is set to light and fuel makes it's way in then backfire may be the order of the day - your neighbors may not be in the mood for a wake!!)
• Flywheel slows, governor weights return, exhaust lever restores and the exhaust valve closes - POWER is returning to the awakening giant of the New Way, it's The HIT bursting into life.
• The cycle of New Way life - and so, as the New Way Motor Company says, it Goes and Goes Right.
• New Way - would you have it any other way!!
• Understand? NO! Simply read it again - there is no other New Way - it just Goes and Goes Right.
• POINT of NOTE:- Timing can be tricky around here with up to four cogs. The crank cog is timed to the exhaust valve cog's cam so as to open when the piston is ready to evacuate the cylinder. (around 2/3 down before BDC) With the exhaust valve timing set, if yours is a HT magneto then you may have 2 more cogs called on then to time that spark to fire a few degrees before TDC. Timing! Timing! It's all timing! Like the ballet, your mechanical sequences must be precisely ordered and timed.
  
  Further Questions: Email me at  Geo.Covey@gmail.com

New Way Motor Company History in Brief

New Way Motor Company Concise History-

• Born out of the Clarkemobile Company (Auto), the New Way Motor Company commencing operations in 1905. http://www.american-automobiles.com/Clarkmobile.html
• William Newbrough as treasurer and Charles Way engineer, were the prime movers of the company with Charles Way as the prime ideas man for the Air Cooled Engines produced by the company.
• Automobiles continued to be produced using New Way engines till 1907.
• The New Way Motor Company main manufacturing facility was at 706 Sheridan with documentation generally referring to Lansing, Michigan.
• Fire played an important part in the company early history. Production actually commenced in a combined facility little more than a simple shed 100 feet long.
• By 1910 with product demand and expansion the company was operating from a massive well serviced factory. 
• The Motor company was instrumental in the establishment of the New Way Mutual Benefit Association to see to the welfare of staff in times of sickness etc. 
• Indicative of a company with a forward thinking social conscience
• New Way manufactured 1 and 2 cylinder Air Cooled engines  up to 12 Hp in horizontal and vertical cylinder format
• Vertical single cylinder 3.5 Hp and 6Hp horizontal twin cylinder Type C aircooled "Hit Miss" vertical engines were among the first productions. These were quickly followed by a 2.5Hp single cylinder version of the same Type C 
• Engines were said to have good power to weight ratio for their time of production. Attributed mainly to the fact that no water tank for cooling was required.
• Peak of production saw engines sent off by train in wagon loads. The New Way Motor Company manufacturing facility was well serviced by rail track right to factory dispatch.
• Some of the last model innovations introduced in 1928 involved innovative cooling principles and methods still in use on modern day air cooled engines. 
• Their Patents were ground breaking. Patents of today still refer back to the innovative early patents of the New Way Motor Company such was their importance in design and principle in combustion engines.
• Heat radiation
• Cooling
• Air Ducting
• Carburation
• Mixed Carburation [petroleum start, kerosene/distillate run]
• High Pressure pumps
• Governors [Hit Miss]
• Governors [Throttle Governed] - including adjustment while running similar to modern day air cooled engines
• Enclosed bearing lubrication - grooved and "drilled" shaft for assured supply.
• Advances
• Engine design advancement or enhancement was generally indicated by an alpha progression of engine "TYPE"
• First commercial production was of the "Type C" which was used in all the VERY early vertical and horizontal engines.
• These engines utilized a rudimentary fuel mixer and a vacuum operated atmospheric intake valve that was directly above the cam operated exhaust valve.
• All were Hit and Miss Engines 
• Governed by centrifugal weights mounted in one flywheel that actuated a lever to hold the exhaust valve open when the desired revolutions had been reached. This prevented further fuel being drawn in via the intake valve as there was no longer sufficient vacuum for it to operate.
• When revolutions dropped again the exhaust valve was de-latched so fuel could again be drawn via the intake valve.   
• Earlier "Type's" of valve layout were designed and also patented and so likely were called either "Type A" or "Type B"
• No commercial record of production of these A and B types has been found
• By the mid teens significant advances had been made by the New Way Motor Company in technology and design. In particular the company introduces their range of throttle governed or "Type F" engines. Type F throttle governed engines were introduced into new ranges as well as into the early Type C engines such as the large 12 HP horizontal twin engines. 
• Only on their very largest BORE engines New Way Motor Company adopted a design using an auxiliary exhaust port patented in 1904 by F Hardenbrook and W Rice. Utilizing 2 holes in the cylinder, exposed when the piston was near the end of it's stroke and allowing hot gas escape before the usual expulsion via the exhaust valve. Consequently with less heat exposure a cooler running engine resulted. Being working and low reving engines this would have been very effective.
• By the time the New Way Motor company went into receivership in the early 1930s "Type H" engines were in production.
• Advances seen over time as generally indicated by Type included
• Timed intake valve
• Throttle governed Engines
• Carburetor fueled Engines
• Light Single flywheel engines
• Air Governors
• Modern Design light weight single and twin cylinder engines utilizing features still found today in modern engines.
• New Way motors continued to be produced to the 1930s when the company went into receivership, though another company was formed, New Way Engine and Machine Company, which continued manufacturing until c1940. 

The following extract from The Engines of Lansing, by Dave Pfaff, copyright Feb. 2004 is used with permission. (Historian R.E. Olds Transportation Museum)