Recent content by Allan Wylie

It's the first time I've read about this but for what it's worth, the Canadian 8BA blocks we have here in New Zealand seem much more prone to cracked valve seats than earlier Canadian blocks. C59A and C69A blocks usually have the "Ford part #" cracks but rarely any others. If I had my druthers I...

And of those eight carbs, six were recalled and melted down by Ford because they also had shares in Big Oil and it wasn't in their interests for the 200 MPG technology to become widespread. This truck is one of the two they couldn't find. The other one's still out there somewhere..........

Thanks V8COOPMAN. I did say I drive my cars hard sometimes and this picture shows one of those times. It might explain why my aftermarket king pin bushes don't last long and even perhaps why spindles crack. What it doesn't explain is why 6 spindles from cars I'd never driven had fatigue cracks...

I haven't taken note of the brand(s) of king pin bushes that have had short service lives. It's something I've observed over decades and the only thing I can be sure of is none of them were Ford parts. I do drive my cars hard at times but I'm not sure if that accounts for it. Maybe I've just...

Packing just the bearings is the right way to do it. Putting grease in the hub only wastes grease. I'll bet those trailers with nipples were boat trailers. Some boaties will pump grease into their hubs to drive water out after they've dunked them in the briny deep.

I have that same odd combination on my '36 for no better reason than they were the first left-and-right set I could find that passed the Magnaflux inspection. That was after rejecting 6 others. There's a lot of cracked spindles out there. Mine are dimensionally identical apart from the flange...

I agree with V8COOPMAN. It's probably the drum that's out. The bent thread in the pictures looks like it's been caused by someone beating on the end of the axle to break the taper loose. The pin hole is squashed as well.

Ron, I'd be interested to hear about the EFI systems you've built. Mine wasn't very successful to begin with either and it just about had me tearing my hair out trying to get it to run. I came within an ace of unbolting the throttle body and putting an SU carb in its place just to hear it run...

It was a lot of work putting the injectors in the valley, so much so that I didn't put them there to start with, even though I knew it was the right place for them. I just wasn't ready to grapple with the challenge of putting injectors inside an engine so I mounted them on top of the manifold...

Thanks for the kind words, fellas. As somebody has already said, I didn't build that EFI setup to impress people, just to make my engine run better. If some people like it then that's a bonus. I don't know who you all are but I recognise and respect Ol' Ron for what he's done and written about...

Hey! that's my engine you're talking about. I just stumbled on this thread and was surprised to see it's about the engine I ran in my '36 coupe for 40-odd years, or at least the EFI iteration of it.