Recent content by Unclebilly

If you are lucky, you will find a rebuilders tag on those engine showing they have been bored or at least rebuilt at some point. Both of my grain truck Merc engines were rebuilt and bored. My 8BA is a virgin engine that had a couple stuck valves from sitting and has a burnt valve I need to fix...

Maybe send it to India or Pakistan and get those guys to fix it if that’s what you are going for. Honestly, I would buy a 40 ford first (maybe even your dad’s old car). It might come with a better engine than you are starting with and you can use your engine for parts. I like watching the...

How much are you willing to spend on this? Rebuilding a good flathead is not cheap, I can’t see what you propose with the subject engine being much under $10k. It just won’t be, honest machine shop or not. Are you willing to spend that sort of money? What is your budget? Toss out a number...

This switch?

It has a new 6v battery in it too. When it does work, 75% of the time it turns over less than half a rev and is running. I have tried 3 starters in it. The current one looks to be in the nicest shape based 9. The brushes and internals. I have one more on a 255 for my 53 M100 I could try.

I have several starters, all are equally crappy.

The ol’ girl at work…

I have a 53 F600 with the original flathead and 4 speed transmission and splitter. We use it for hauling bales on our farm and it works well. The truck is still 6 volt and despite replacing the solenoid, all of the starter cables with new large welding cable (crimped with a hydraulic crimper)...

Perfect. Thank you.

I understand that the crank and pistons are different between the Ford 239 and the Merc 255 with the 4” sreoke. Are the rods the same or are they different too?