How about your steam connection to the engine, is the steam pressure
getting to the engine?

Rex B wrote:

Chuck Sherwood wrote:

When turned over by hand it has some compression which it retains when
I flip it over while opening the throttle.



It has compression when turning it over in the same direction that
the steam should be forcing it to turn???? Sounds like the valve timing
is off.


But it runs fine on air.
Maybe the steam is cooling down before it can do work?