Recent content by railroad

Looks like the plug may be favoring the exhaust valve more than stock location. Maybe he will come off some of his secrets.

Farmer Tight, tighten until it breaks, then back up 1/2 turn.

When the block comes back from the machine shop, I am going to see if I want to tackle it or not. I have some stainless and am sure I can make a set, weld a nut on and drill into the port through the water passage and bolt in, but that is a lot for a street engine, I think. I guess you can...

Good news. I unloaded the flatheads today. It looks like a complete merc 49-53, less a set of merc heads. The block is 30 over. The rod journals were 30 under. I did not have time to research everything. Did get an alum timing cover on the merc. The other crank is a ford with a set of...

Thanks for the leads and advise and I need to apologize for hi jacking someone else's thread.

Like a kid at Christmas, I just acquired a truck load of flathead stuff. It is all 49-53. I think I got a merc engine. It is disassembled, but the back of the block looks like factory merc green. I got 2 cranks, 8 heads, all the bolt on stuff twice. It looks like I got 2 engines short 1...

I do not have them in hand, but have looked at them and can relate to the increase in the countersink and fitting the bottom to fit flat against the floor of the port. Does the allen screw come in from the side on the stud hole or in the bottom of the stud hole? Oh, are you talking about...

You guys sure have thrown me a curve. I am in the middle of a merc flathead rebuild. I have the L100 cam, running stock heads to start and will probably break it in with a single carb. I have been waiting a month on a distributor from Bubba. I did a lot of smoothing and knocking down corners...

I have 4, son- 2, brother 1 and a spare block, and a partridge in a pear tree.

I cannot speak for the kits you mentioned, just the lightbuckets that were on my T. Most people like myself, figure if the plug is a match to the bulb, it was made to fit and the polarity is right. But it was not. I would have blamed the person that built the T, but the gound had the eye...

I had the same problems with my T bucket and asked the guys on the Bucketeer site. Just like stated here the problem was with the 3 prong headlight plug was not wired correctly. The ground terminal was riveted to the housing from the factory, but it was not the ground terminal on the sealed...