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I found it! Thanks everyone, this helped a lot. It was exactly on the top of the frame, and the previous owner had scraped down to the bare metal so I just had to follow it.

This all helps. Looks like I'm going to be doing some careful scrubbing with paint stripper in the future. There's probably a dozen layers of paint.

Hey! I need to get a VIN inspection by the DMV to transfer the title into state. Pain in the ***. I've been looking to figure out where the Serial Number could be, but I can't find it no matter how hard I look. I've seen other posts saying "Near the steering box" but I actually don't know...

NEW NEWS HERE!!! Video/sound of it going here. The squealing is a belt I need to tighten: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uyAKo_xW3eA You can hear what it's doing, basically. I was wrong about it only happening in gear. I took the car out today and tried reproducing the engine problem out of...

Great advice. I'll give that a shot.

It's a horrible repro carb, but it's a 94. Not the good one, but one of the no-name brands that are out there. I sent it to the guy everyone here loves (whose name escapes me) and he rejetted it properly and got it running on his test engine. AFAIK he also checked out the accelerator pump...

So I've got my '47 ford (v8 flathead) starting and idling. It will warm up and then I push in the choke and it hums pretty well. However when I put it into gear (forward or reverse) it craps the bed. Jerking, popping, barely creating enough power to move the car forward. It doesn't matter how...

So I pulled off the air filter, cleaned off the plugs and connections, and took the car out for a quick 3 mile drive today to see if the filter would make any difference. For about the first mile it might have felt a little different (after warming up in the barn at idle) but at around the 2.5...

I’ve been chatting with Charlie via email and he agrees it might be the air filter. I thought so too but didn’t notice a change when I pulled it off. Looks like I’m going to be sourcing a better carb. Maybe this guy since it’s an exact version of the OEM...

I've emailed Charlie about it and sent him the videos, I'm not sure the knock-off carb is even worth trying to adjust.

Here's a couple of videos I made today after the car was warmed up. This is revving the engine up and holding it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAHS320snU This is the carb at idle. No numbers that I can see anywhere: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/th1KqoRB628

Yeah the new carb solved a surging issue, and I don’t remember if it ran rich before they swapped it. OEM mechanical fuel pump. I’ve fiddled with all the adjustments, but I need to check the fuel pressure and I figured I would rebuild the carb and check the air path while I’m at it. I was also...

This is fantastic advice, thanks. I'll reach out to him. I figure it's probably a good idea for me to take the existing one apart anyway even if it's just to figure out how a carb works and so I can do a cleaning eventually. This isn't gonna be my last older car and eventually I need to just...

Ok so to sum up some stuff: V8 Flathead - 1947. I don't have the original carb anymore, but a knock-off with a smaller intake. Car's running real rich, fouling plugs pretty quickly and putting out a good amount of black smoke on acceleration. Gonna try my hand at carefully cleaning the carb...

This was all very helpful! Thank you everybody! I feel a lot more confident if and when I need to do this.

I don’t think there’s a problem with the radiator. But if I need to pull off the distributor to handle timing adjustments, I might need to pull the radiator off from what I can tell. That’s what I’m asking. Can I pull the distributor off without removing the radiator? That being said, I agree...

Solid advice. Is it that much easier than pulling off the distributor? Based on previous discussions the carb is probably not suited to the car. Maybe. It’s a brand new one and the previous one was rebuilt by a mechanic I know twice, this one worked better than the old one - although it runs...

Also to get the distributor off, do I have to pull off the radiator as well? I can’t remove the fan hub as is there’s no space. I’m just trying to figure out if I should prep for a longer job like draining the coolant and removing the radiator or if this is something I can do without having to...

It's just a tuning of the timing - the car runs but runs really rich. This is part of troubleshooting to me - i'm also gonna measure pressure into the carb to make sure too much fuel isn't getting in there and double check that I've got the right spark plugs and gaps set.

I've read through the green book several times, tried searching around the internet, still can't figure it out. What's the procedure for adjusting timing on a 47 v8 flathead. It's a round type distributor but the fan hub, fan belt, and radiator are in the way so I can't really get at it to see...