Recent content by gavin m

Hey Lars As Mart mentioned I have had the same issue with my truck since I bought it. You are doing well at 700km I could drain around 1 litre of fluid from the trans to put back in the rear end after about 100km! It came fitted with a Tardel baffle that obviously didn't work for me so my next...

Have PM'd you some pictures. Hope they help.

No problem I can get some pictures sorted. What measurement do you need?

I love mine in my 32 truck. 33/34 motor. 80 thou over with flat tops. isky 77b cam. Meyer heads and inlet. duel 97's. crab dizzy and speedway econo headers. Runs well on the street, good for 17.4 sec quarters at the drags and 87mph at Pendine. Been driven to Belgium and back as well as being...

There is. Pete took a couple of stock front covers, cut them about, then welded them up to make the twin dizzy's work. Once the HAMB is back up and running I will post a link to the tech feature he posted.

Pete (Nutrocker on the HAMB) has recently fabricated a twin plug conversion for his motor. I have had the pleasure of sharing the driving duties at a few hill climb events in the car and can tell you it goes really well on what is a pretty much a stock French flathead. Even if the second set of...

Are you based in the UK? If so get in touch with Jim at Royal Kustoms http://www.royalkustoms.co.uk/ He is a flathead expert but operates an all round build/fabrication shop that helped prepare a 40 Ford for the peking to paris last year.

I'm no expert so can only go off my personal experience but when I swapped to a set of repro Eddie Meyer heads and matching inlet on my early 21 stud I immediately knocked one and a half seconds from my previous best E.T. in the quarter. Ran consistent 20.5 secs @72mph to start with then ran...

I see that the likes of Mac's, Snyder's and Dennis Carpenter are now offering reproduction early pump in head water pumps with modern sealed bearings etc. Anyone had any experience of using them? Are they all supplying them from the same source? Thanks for any advice Gavin

Ok. Here is what my truck will do. 32 pick up 33 pump in head motor 0.80' over with Eddie Meyer heads and inlet. Around 7:1 CR. Stock 33 trans 33 rear end with 4.11 gears and 7.50 tyres. 'comfortable' freeway speed = 55-60mph. Any more feels like I'm over working the motor. 1/4 mile in full...

Thought a few might like to see the finished piece.

I could be asking for trouble here but what the hey :) Here is my latest of my pick up. It is flathead powered although you can't see it in this. It's only half done, need to do the bed area of the truck and then the dry lakes background.

My pick up. Just don't get stuck or you may need help! :o

I used bolts when I fitted the Meyer heads to my 21 stud. I broke 4 studs off each side getting them out and decided I wouldn't go through that pain again:( I certainly noticed a difference in the threads. The original studs did have a more rolled edge at the tops of the threads compared to...

Definitely worth doing Mike. There is nothing wrong with the diver's helmet type but the crab is easy to install with the adaptors that are available, they are easy to set up and the parts are a bit cheaper. It did seem to improve how the motor ran although on inspection my old dizzy was pretty...