will a ford-o-matic off a yblock bolt onto a flathead??

54mainlinetim

54mainlinetim

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Hey guys!
I have a ford-o-matic that was mated to a yblock that i am trying to sell on craigslist, A guy called me up asking if it would mount up to a flat head? I told him I know that earlier fords then 54 had flatheads and fordomatics but wasnt sure if a fordomatic off a yblock would work or not on a flathead and told him i would ask you guys and let him know....even tho im selling it cheap I just didnt want to sell it to him and it not work....sorry if its a dumb question im just not hip on flatheads..thanks for any insight
 
When I was a kid, my parents had a '51 Merc. It was a flathead V8 and had an automatic transmission. In the early '60's, the flathead wore out, so my dad just went to a junkyard and got a Y-Block V8 out of a later year Ford car and dumped it in there. He used an adaptor plate to mate the Y-Block to the air-cooled bellhousing.
Don't know if you can still buy them now. Might be best to ask some of our freinds in the early V8 forum.
 
Unfortunately "Honest Charley's" does not deal in adapters anymore. He had so many types of adapters that you could almost put a Hemi in a Metropolitan.
 
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