Recent content by fsacht

Thank you all for your input and suggestions.

I, after many years with 40's flatheads learned that wires; sparkplug, temp sender crossover, etc. that rest on the intake manifold can and do burn through in the area of the carb. Any of you experience this and do you know a source for conduit that is fabric or other not shiny material to...

You have a Canadian Ford/Mercury 114"wheelbase. The dash plastic is correct and in very nice shape. Those pieces are in my judgement the parts that are hard to find in good shape. Post your question on the Early Ford V8 Club web site. Flatheads are their subject and there are still some old...

The small nylon screw and nylon nut work. Repaired one of my point plates that had broken insulation. Replaced the insulation with a different gasket material that I folded over the vertical plate and secured it all with the nylon fasteners. Found them in one of my small parts drawers. I'd...

It was called a dash board years before automobiles. It hoped to keep dirt off the occupants when the horses dashed ahead. I don't remember the year Ford stopped calling it a firewall but my memory says in the 70's. Firewall was thought to be a scary intimidating term so they stopped using it...

Ford38v8, Thanks. That's the kind of information I am looking for. One of my cars is said to have come from Colorado.

Where can I learn about jets and size applications for the Holley carbs. I have recently cleaned and replaced gaskets on two spares I have. One carb set is stamped.47 and the other .51. What does the 47 or 51 indicate and what source will give proper size and what determines one's choice of...

Installed new tube with new compression fittings this morning and the miss is gone and it's driving smooth, 59397 original miles.

Started this thread because was trying to isolate a steady regular miss while in second gear about 20 mph. Sound and feel was fuel starved but chock had no effect to improve miss. Satisfied fuel pump performance and while reinstalling the fuel tube to engine discovered that the tube nut at the...

Norway produces helpful people.

Rune William Merc, Your system is where my thoughts were going. How to suspend or provide a fuel source higher than the carb inlet is a puzzle. A second hand will fix that. Your suggestion satisfies the requirement of operating at idle speed whereas cranking speed does not, so your findings...

Vehicle in question is a '42 Mercury. The spec is one pint in 45 seconds at idle speed. It seems to me that it's a two person operation. One to feed fuel to the float chamber and the other watch the clock and be sure the empty test receptacle starts receiving fuel at start time and is shut off...

Where do you live in the USA. Wishbones for front or rear? What middle section?

LTK, If we know where in the USA you live one of us will contact you and come over and show you all the things you now have questions about and more. Not all of us have distributor set up equipment so have for decades been replacing points and setting initial timing with a screwdriver, a set of...

Northwest Indiana north of La Porte.