NEW WAY - Periodic Maintenance

Regular Basic  Maintenance

• Ensure lubrication points and oil levels are operationally correct. [include oil misting check at oil line "T" plug at the fan shaft connection point once motor is started - oil line valve sticks]{eg. Type "C" motors}
• Ensure motor cylinder casting is clean and not covered in oil thereby inhibiting air cooling.
• Ensuring the cooling fins and ribs aren't partially choked (eg sawdust, straw etc) causing overheating.
• Motor is tight on its bed or carriage.
• Dry Cell Battery ignition systems are prone to failure as cells and coil contacts have a limited life. Use meter to check cell condition - replace as necessary. (suspect a cell if the motor will start and soon stops and can be restarted after standing for some time. ie it has signs of a weak fading spark)

Periodic Basic Maintenance

• New Way recommended that the combustion chambers of their early motors be cleaned at very regular intervals [eg 6 monthly] because of a build-up of gum and carbon deposits. Rings were also included in this regimen. {carbon deposits by glowing can cause preignition}
• Hinged crankcases on many models facilitated easy access to undertake this servicing.
• Change oil.

New Way operated in a day where fuels were of variable standard and carried impurities that necessitated this recommendation for regular cleaning. With modern day fuels it is expected that this close periodic regimen is not required and would no longer be recommended by New Way as the cause lay not with the motors so much as with impure fuels.

NOTE, even today, a motor running rich will still build carbon deposits that can cause preignition - Not primarily through impure fuel but through incomplete combustion. In restoration, failure to clean old deposits etc. from the combustion chamber can also result in preignition - be thorough.

Trouble with preignition, [motor will try to run even when you disconnect the spark plug] then inspect and clean the combustion chamber. (look for deposits or sharp casting points etc that could glow when the motor gets hot - it could simply be a deposit on the plug)

• Quick Remedy ? - Impure fuels would be prone to produce deposits just as they would generate rectification processes that might save dismantling a motor. A remedy of the day was to pour a dose of kerosene or Turpentine into the spark plug hole. [I don't know how much but take it that it would need to be done soon after the problem arose and left there long enough to soften the deposit so that once the motor was started the deposit (wafer?) causing preignition would be expelled]

NEW WAY - Fuel to Fire

The New Way Motor Company motors were advertised as being capable of running on many fuels. As a  frontier motor they probably had few or no equals especially in freezing winter conditions of the likes of parts of US and Canada. With no water hopper to freeze they made their stamp with virtually no daily maintenance demands.

FUELS to BURN (advertised) :-

• Gasoline
• Petrol 
• Gas
• Naptha
• Alcohol
• Benzine
• Distillate (Kerosene)

To run on kerosene a New Way (eg Type "C") generally needed to adopt a two tank fuel storage and switching process. Motors  started on petrol/gasoline and once warmed up were switched over and run on kerosene. The process requires that at the end of running all kerosene is used up so that the new start could be done with the carburettor refuelled fully with Petrol. Mixture adjustment at the changeover point was likely required for the motor to run efficiently. Running on kerosene was conditionally qualified by New Way and though promoted, not fully recommended for continuous service (performance etc.) without  a modification kit.

Later motor models eg some series "M" outfits had carburetors specially designed for kerosene. To overcome the problem of kerosene atomisation, where it condenses in cool conditions, in this case, the exhaust was fed to directly heat the carburettor. (petrol start still required)

For further detail see photo by clicking this link to the photo information page.

http://newwaystation.blogspot.com/p/new-way-info-photo-gallery.html

NEW WAY JEWEL - Decorative Detail

New Way Jewel Open Crank Decoration 

New Way Jewel was supplied in both open and enclosed crank. Some open crank engines have a decorated metal cover with the New Way virtual trademark flowers painted proudly and clearly.

New Way Motor Company philosophy virtually dictated (advertised) that their motors should not only be good but that they should also look good. 

To the right (much appreciated and thanks to Neil H) is an accurate tracing of the painting done on the curved metal cover on a 1½ Hp Jewel Open Crank engine. These covers were simply a wide metal band and did not provide any real dust protection like the enclosed crank engines but rather would have stopped oil and grease from splattering around the motor. The flower is 3¼ inch high and the base colours are green and yellow and white.

Click the image to get an expanded view.  

REGISTRY - NEW WAY ENGINES

The New Way  Engine REGISTRY can be accessed on this site at it's own page. Owners, be included on the registry, simply email the following New Way Motor details for inclusion on the record.

MOTOR INFORMATION REQUIRED by Email for the New Way Motor Registry. {NOTE:- the motor can be in any condition}

• Series/Model/Type (as little or much as you know) 
• Photo

REGISTRY UPDATES!!

Expect an email response to your Registry email within three days and that your motor information will be added to the registry within a week. You will also be notified by email as soon as the New Way Motor Registry is updated with your data.

GOALS - In a nut shell - Service

• Encourage Owners to recognise the benefits of a wide ranging registry
• Build a promptly updated extensive International New Way Motor Registry inclusive of photos.
• Collate and compare data, including Serial Numbers, ID Plates, available sales records, manuals and dated documentation with the view to expanding the accuracy of a nominal manufacturing date for motors. (refer Identification Table) [volume is necessary in the absence of New Way Motor Company official serial number documentation]

We would love to hear from all of you New Way Owners out there. Use the registry for Then and Now photos (up to 3) for each motor project. The Email address to send your information is geo.covey@gmail.com Look foward to hearing from you.

Click REGISTRY to have a look at all the models on the registry plus view the photos. Countries represented as of 04/Feb/2011 include Scotland, England, New Zealand, USA , South Africa and Australia.

New Way Flywheel Fan Engines

FLYWHEEL FAN AIR COOLED ENGINES - precursor to the Modern Air Cooled Motor.

New Way promoted it's products as being light weight, compact and reliable. These concepts were displayed throughout production.

Competition - It wasn't a foreign concept to the New Way Motor Company but the advance of time along with mechanical and technological advances in the workplace spelt out it's demise. Vision probably wasn't the lack but direction likely was, in an age where the capability of machines moved at a hectic pace and in many cases set aside the requirement for the stand alone motor. (eg. PTO and electric power etc.)

Innovation - By 1917 New Way had introduced the Flywheel Fan into it's motor range. Simple but effective the essential concept continues to be used in todays air cooled engines.

Advancement - The New Way Motor Company and it's successor the New Way Engine and Machine Company produced models of varying Hp using the Flywheel Fan concept. Along with throttle governing, clutch pulley and optioning without a heavy base, these were to be the last really significant advances adopted in their range. Flywheel mounted Fan Series/Models included:-

• F Series in a likely Hp range of 4 to 7.5.
• CH(A) - 5 Hp Single (initially 4 Hp ?)
• CHA - 6 Hp Single Cylinder.
• BH(A) - 3 Hp Single Cylinder (base incorporated)
• FH(A) - 5 Hp Single Cylinder (base incorporated)
• EHA - 8 Hp Twin Cylinder Vertical    (c1930s)
• GHA - 10 Hp Twin Cylinder Vertical  (c1930s)

SALES

Generally from a Sales perspective, following standard New Way practice, a purchaser would order an Outfit Number. In other words the Outfit No. (eg "C-2" ) used by the dealer, defined how the particular motor was to be optioned for the purchaser. The motor was the same but options chosen defined which Outfit No was used in ordering. Optioning could relate to the fitting or otherwise of combinations of:-

• Sub Base
• Plain Pully
• Clutch Pully
• Power Take off (PTO)
• Sprockets (dependant on plant attached eg. make)

NEW WAY MOTOR - Information Photo Gallery

NEW WAY PHOTO GALLERY (Model/Type Information)

JUST PUBLISHED - A new page that provides guidance photos for fitting out of New Way  motors with componentry true to model/type. New Way  spares/accessory examples are also shown eg New Way Spark Plugs {the best of course}. I recognise that few of us will ever have a motor fitted with the likes of original spark plugs.

Go direct to component photo gallery click http://newwaystation.blogspot.com/p/new-way-info-photo-gallery.html