Recent content by Rudolph

The Australian made cars always had alot of wood, it was something about employing people and making the parts in Australia, even the 34 ford they changed the body style for this reason The Newzeand made Fords and other Colonial body vehicles are way nicer then the Australian version and thy...

I just put my distrubtor on the timing fixture to see how far off 4 degrees it was and where I have it set is bang on 4 degrees witch means the Petronix is set very retarded and it would need to be set to full advance to get 4 degrees on the sliding scale.

I knocked back the timing by a cople degrees

I found a good way was to adjust the vacuum brake is at idol and when its at its happiest the idol will drop down, I cannot get the engine to ping adjusting it how the ford book says

The rotation of the points plate sets the initial advance of the ignition the same way as it dose with the pertronix moduel, if you slide the screw to the top of the slot it rerards the ignition and down is advance, The problem with the pertronix is the plate is cast alloy and they take a bit...

Read what I wrote above more carefully and look at the photo

I made a new plate to hold the pertronix moduel from an old 6 cylinder singel point plate or something, I moved the moduel for more advanced, the cast alloy plate use to bind and and cant be adjusted like a steel one by bending the bush holder. Now the engine runs smother and sweeter and has...

Took the heads to a shop and they had to take 3 thou off them to get them flat, that photo is the 1st grind, the low spots are around the places I was seeing weeping. Hope this fixes the problem

Detonation and pinging are 2 different things,

It will ping if it gets enough advance, I was just going to advance it enough till it started to feel funny and then back it off till the sweet spot.

Hello, I set up a crab distrubtor on the Wasco coming fixture and set the initial advance like the instructions say but when its on the car it seems to like that sliding scale set to max and then I think slotting the slot more would help, I cant get the engine to ping even under max load, I am...

I just installed the Ford asbestos gaskets with copper spray and sprayed them like the cans instructions recommended

Is it good to use a sealant on asbestos gaskets? Is it necessary even? Isn't that the gaskets job? I might just give it a thin coat ?

Yes I saw Matt's video of the gasket, I could see they were squishing the fiber out and like he says there is no reinforcement in the fiber. Why dont I use high temperature copper head gasket spray insted of silver paint? I dont see what greasing them would do apart from create a void like...

Hello on my 41 Mercury engine I got rebuilt at a shop, heads and block mechined, weeped coolent through the head gaskets fiber "best gasket copper sandwich gaskets" and I tried to fix it by fitting falpro gaskets witch fixed it but then I had a blowing head gasket probably from excessive use of...