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Hi guys, I'm helping a friend of mine diagnose an oil foaming problem with his '29 Model A. He's building a new engine and has put in a modified oil pump and he has modded the oil system to put oil where it wasn't before as well as adding an external filter. He's testing the pump by driving the...

Hi Guys, I am restoring the gauges and getting ready to use them in a 12V system and I have 2 complete sets that came with the F-47, but the TEMP and OIL behave the opposite from each other, and I am wondering why. You can see in the pictures that 2 are stationary at full right, and 2 are to...

Happy new year all! I am continuing the '49 Flathead build with GM TBI system and have decided I want to use an electric fan only, removing the constant load on the engine and only coming on when needed. I already have the electric side figured out, I have a 78A alternator and will probably end...

After sharing my fuel injection project with a good friend, who then shared it with his brother, who's neighbor has a '50 Shoebox 2 door in his driveway, and loved what I am doing with the TBI system, said if I wanted another project he would give me a good deal on this....so....just waiting for...

Hi guys, I'm working my way through tuning the GM TBI fuel injection system on my '49 F-47 8BA and I am working on splitting the left/right injector drive and need to know what intake ports are fed by the left and right sides of the intake. I really don't want to remove the intake to confirm...

I pulled the original 2 bbl manifold in preparation for the 4 bll intake for the fuel injection I am installing, and noticed one intake runner was rusty. I also noticed some of intake bolt holes had water in them. My question, do the intake bolt holes extend into the water jacket? If so, I...

I'm trying to find a nice clean passage from cab to engine bay for my EFI harness and found this hole in the passenger compartment, on the angled part of the floor. What is it for? I don't want to build the harness only to find out it's for something important. Cheers

I am trying to find a coolant flow diagram for a '49 Flathead, but probably any year would be fine. I have searched the web and shop manuals but can't find any info. Does anyone here have one you could post please and thanks? I'm trying to find the best place for the fuel injection coolant temp...

I am getting ready for winter and wanted to clean the shop so pulled out the '49 F-47 and started her up, ran like a top. As I now have a complete drive line I filled the AOD with another 5 litres of ATF to bring it up to full, I now have engagement of the trans in all gears, cool, just need to...

Hi guys, In my pursuit of either fuel injection or a 2GC in the interim, I have located a Merc manifold but it is 10 hours away and the fellow is not technical and doesn't have computer or camera so I am wondering if you might be able to help me? I need to know what the center-center bore...

Hi all, I want to get a discussion going about building a fuel injection system for the flathead using mainly parts you can get at the wreckers. It's easy to spend $1-2K on a new off the shelf system but I want to build something using existing technology, something that is readily available...

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I was able to run the flathead engine today until the T-stats opened and everything seemed to find it's happy place. I was able to set the timing just so and played around with the vacuum advance and I made an interesting observation. I am using my modified GM distributor and vacuum advance can...

I bought a 4 bbl Offy intake for the 32-48 Flathead which has blocked off oil filler and breather holes. My plan is to drill and tap the road draft tube post to accept a PCV valve and I have read that the Fram FV306 or 294 are good matches for our engines. I can't seem to find a cross to a...

This is just bizarre. While I was playing with my ignition today I decided to have a look at my block serial number and found this....can anyone here decipher this? Yikes. The original Canadian s/n is clearly stamped, but then there is a mish mash of crap ending with a star. The block casting...

Hi folks, I'm in the process of restoring my 49 Ford F-47 with the 239 flathead, and am starting by getting the engine running nicely. It hasn't run in years, I have it running now and am starting to make some mods. I decided to start by machining a GM distributor to fit in place of the...