Dead flathead

Yes I am on the road at least for now. As far as break in we got her warm torque heads as the manual says over and over and for good measure I did it again when it got warm. Drove the truck tonight seems god but I get a stutter once in a while. I think it's iginition related. I've change oil three time since rebuild to keep it clean oil now seems like the water is diappearing, so far. What should I do with igintion this hase the lucas distrubitor with the cap that has two sets of wire exiting out the top one for each side not the crab but I think I will go that way or to more modern electric?
 
Hey your last post was promising I think you will get this solved. For what it's worth when I rebuilt my 36 I had so many overheating issues I was going to junk it. After radiators, water pumps timing and all you have gone throught, the thing that solved it was drilling out the jets in the carbs, I was running too lean, a friend of mine who races these things took one look at the plugs and said I like them rich on a flathead, he was right it runs cool and wonderful now. On top of all that I had an oil leak that required removal of the pan three times, only to fing out the gasket behind the flywheel was leaking so out it came and now I wouldn't trade it for any other motor, you will get it right.
 
i think you need to drive that engine hard, with hard accelerating, then deceleration....to seat the rings....others may have better ways, but that is the way i've heard....don't baby it, i guess....good luck....Mike
 
Can you post some pictures of the motor and distributor?....you may need a crab distributor ...
 
You should always retorque after the engine has cooled. I also like the crab distributor and the stock unit is very good. No need to go to an aftermarket distributor that probably won't have the proper advance curve.
 
Not sure what you mean by Lucus, stock 46-8 fords had two caps, the external or far forward one had two outlets like horns sticking up that the wires went out of. Providing your wires are good, the dist itself is the same as the 42 that came with the crab cap. Have that dist strobed and you should be out of ign problems.
 
46-48 used what i call the rabbit eared one.Same as crab but has 2 PITA caps. Convert it to a crab with 42 cap,rotor and clips. Much easier to wire it. Around $60 to change it over. ken ct.
 
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