51-52 ford truck eab engine

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picked up this 51-52 ford eab truck engine its clean outside and it spins over good with a battery ant i pulled the cap off the dist. and fire on the points will eat u up so coils good and it has fairly clean oil on the stick guy took it out of the truck and its been in his dry garage ever sence so not been around and moisture or etc but the cap has a crack in it and the plugs are shot and it has 3 04 broke plugs with it spinning over i just wonder when i put new plugs and wires on it and new cap and rotor button and put some gas down the carb what are maybe the chances of this thing running ????? anyone had any luck with engines of this condition ??????? here is a pic of the engine i gave 300.00 for it and not one thing is gone off the engine . someone told me it having eab heads thats its high compression ??? and its high horse ?????
 

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ead and eac are the better and best of the flatheads as far as compression, put some mmo in the cylinders to free up any rings, change out the plugs-points-condeser-plug wires and caps and crank it up--just did so to an 8ba that had been sitting in a truck for over 10 years--2 hrs after starting to work on it I was driving it around the yard and before I forget put a mechanical oil guage on the engine
 
and did yours have any stuck valves ??? i figure this thing has to have a couple stuck valves in it after setting . if so im tol them may free up if i can get it warmed up and oil flowing .
 
No such thing as "high horse" flathead by today's standards. Brand new from the factory they had 115 at the most.

It's real easy to get a flathead running, even if it's in bad shape. What I mean is that these things will run with virtually no compression, and run on as few as 4 cylinders.

I think you did OK for your $300.
 
thanks i didnt think it was a bad deal for 300.00 not and its complete and turns over and u can take out one plug at a time and lay your palm over it and feels the air against your hand . i think thats what the guy meant when i showed him a pic of it and he saw the eab heads he said it was high compression and high horse he did say like 110 or etc . i knew they wasnt very much hp when they was new . so im getting a all new tune up kit for it and etc then im going to hook the battery to it and dump some fuel doen the carb and see what happens :)
 
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