Recent content by Bfield

I ended up with a truck radiator all said and done bolted right up worked out well

Update found a ****** got a good deal on that with a radiator. Got it started and running this Thursday. Next is some wiring in a couple switches and putting power back into the cab. I will have to figure something different out for the foot feed everything is backwards the 6 cylinder had...

0HA head on the 6 cylinder could be a 50 box and motor or everything 50 but the cab?

Ya I thought I had this figured out till yesterday when I pulled the motor and seen that. ya your right about the box never noticed

Drivers side

Don’t plan on getting ride of the 6 but just setting it aside and someday rebuilding. V8 thing is just a project for grandpa and I he’s really into the 8 so I’d like to do that with him. He just doesn’t remember a lot of details from when he worked on them in his youth so we turned here for...

Everything I have read must only apply to v8s. I will be going next week sometime to a farm that’s has acres of trucks don’t know years yet. Looks like I will try to find a 49-53 8rt Hogshead and transmission I’m gathering that would be best for the 8ba. What would that transmission and hogs...

This is a pic of the transmission currently in the truck will the 8rt bellhousing work for this?

Not sure that the 6 was original to the truck it (it was a 6 from factory) the head says OHA 6050. The motor mounts, radiator sheeting, battery mount I’m sure I can have someone help me fab. Most of the wiring still on the 8ba they where going to a 302 Just got to work I will try to post a...

Well got a 42-47 project from grandpa he saved it from a tree line 15+ years ago. Six cylinder is locked up, got to buying before I had any idea what flatheads really are. Long story short bought a running 8ba and radiator out of a car need to know what hogs head and transmission I need to look...