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Thanks Alan

When driving on Michigan's bad roads, I get a lot of body noise. Shocks and springs are good. Should I expect this rattling noise, or is it possible I could do something to better secure the doors for example? Thanks

Thank you all for your thoughts.

Thanks rotorwrench, good information.

If someone could advise me, I would like to know if I have a matching numbers truck. Please provide me your thoughts. Thank you

Thank you rotorwrench.

Thank you Jeff for your experienced reply.

For my 1950 F1 flathead I was wondering what type of oil and weight to use as well as to add lead to my gas.

Thanks flatjack9

I do not think my vacuum advance is advancing my timing at a higher throttle. I remove my steel line today to see if the problem was the line, distributor vacuum advance or the draw from the carb. At idle I tried putting a vacuum on a new rubber line with no change at idle. I then put my...

Thank you all for your ideas.

I am new here. My 1950 Flathead seems to run very well at an idle but at RPM's above say 1/8 throttle and above seems to not spin up very well. It stammers and even back fires and has no power. I have also noticed there is an excess of carbon in the tail pipes as well. Any ideas? I greatly...