I Finally Get a '32

[2935ford]

Thanks Butch. I do have a rebuilt 94 and a manifold for it.

 

[2935ford]

Thanks Butch. Yes and I hope to explore a lot of them.

 

[kiwitony]

Its only stuck from sitting a long time, if it comes free it will soon polish itself and should work fine.

 

[2935ford]

Ah, that's good news, thank you. I look forward to getting the truck on the road.

 

[joe plumber]

Cool ,have fun with it .

 

[jim1932]

If it has been sitting your oil probably looks like mine did.......

 

[2935ford]

Probably and the first thing to get changed.

 

[jim1932]

I picture a Hall DOHC on that 4 banger.

OK Ron, for us youngster newbies, what does a Hall DOHC look like? I googled to no luck. Is that Hall-scott?

 

[V12Bill]

If your engine runs, jack up the rear and put stands under the rear. Start the engine and apply the gas and the brakes alternately. This should break the clutch loose also.

 

[uncle buck]

Thats a nice looking original! Great find. I have had luck breking the clutch loose before by towing with the clutch pedal pushed down on a gravel drive before.

 

[tiquer]

OK Ron, for us youngster newbies, what does a Hall DOHC look like? I googled to no luck. Is that Hall-scott?

The Hal head was the one to have in the early dirt track days of sprint car racing .They where known as the big cars. A friend of my parents ran a Hal in a Model B powered sprint car In Victoria B.C. Last run in 1958 the first season the track was paved.Western Speedway was a 3/8 mile ovel, and Ken said he would turn 115 MPH down the straights and around 90 through the turns. Ken said the B engine was pushing around 250 HP with 12:1 pistons. One race in 58 some of the cars came up from Wash. and Oregon state. The last two races are divided into large fields of cars the A main and the B main The B main the slower cars in the field. Ken coaxed the B into a third place finish. No not the fasted car there that Satuday night but very repectable considering that all the cars up from the states were running the then new small block chev engines.

 

[FlatheadTed]

You can also use jumper leads with 12 volt, with the hand & foot brake on clutch in, and in 3rd gear.With the hot wire onto the starter and touch the earth on the housing .

Thank you everyone
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I've been told the clutch is "frozen" to the flywheel.
Any ideas on how to free it w/o pulling everything apart?

 

[barryfromvictoria]

tiquer--- I`m from Victoria. I had a highly modified b block that I got with a shed full of model a parts in 1973. It purportedly come out of a sprint car. At age 14 in 1961 I remember a guy on Catherine Street who showed me a picture of his full house model b sprint car taken in the 50`s. It would be interesting to know your friends name. There`s a large contingent of old race car drivers from the 40s and 50`s that are alive and well in victoria.---barry

 

[jim1932]

Ahh.... HAL not Hall..... pretty,,,,

 

[2935ford]

Speedy Bill's museum in Lincoln, Nebraska has a few of these engines....WOW!

 

[31chevy]

Nice find, enjoy the restoration it become very habit forming.
Gary.

 

[Ol' Ron]

The Hal was the poor mans Offy, probably alittle scarce today.Might find a 4 port Ryley. In the 30's early 40's the "B" was the engine to beat. The V8 didn't come into it's own untill the late 40's. Sprint car racing limited displacement to 220 gor OHV engines. I think, things are getting alittle fuzzy now.

 

[biggeorge]

Very nice find! Free it up and drive the tires of it.

 

[2935ford]

biggeorge...that's my plan!

 

[Newc]

Hi; Is that an Original Eaton rad cap? They are the rarest things out there, never reproduced! If that is an Eaton, lock it up, and use a car type in public. Great find! Newc