Flywheel housing torque

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Brent's jeremiad aside, I would recommend expanding your scope of repair places to general-purpose machine shops. There are no Model A specialist shops within 150 miles of me, but I've been able to find shops within 20 miles who were willing to deck heads, bore cylinders, do valve jobs, grind cranks, mount tires, reshape fenders, etc. I had a local machinist repair and true up two flywheel housings last year. A good machinist is a good machinist, 50 years ago or today, and they can do a lot of what you need.

Absolutely Colin, ...you actually reinforced my point completely. Restorers/Repairers that are 'problem-solvers' generally will figure out a way.

 

[jeepguy1948]

You are correct Brent, I do my best and don’t overlook things. A friend and I worked on shimming the housing yesterday and assuming we know what we are doing got to within .002 across the horizontal and vertical. I think that this is as close as one can get.

 

[jeepguy1948]

There is a serious shortage of good machinist’s in my area, every one I have ever known has retired or died and nobody has taken over the shop.
I believe that the average A owner these days either has no clue that this should be done or ignores it and then just writes off the resulting vibration as due to an un balanced motor.

 

[old ugly]

Just curious, is anyone going to discuss Flywheel Housing alignment? Just tightly bolting the Housing to the Block might create some issues if the Housing has not been restored.

i mentioned that as well

i also mentioned not putting a shim close to that cam journal or you may get a leak.
(i saw some idiot doing that on youtube) i have used a couple gaskets in that case to seal that journal and will bring the housing a bit closer to true.