Got my flathead V8 back together for the third time and put back into the frame. Pulled the battery out of my service truck. Hooked up KNOWN GOOD jumper cables. Hooked up jumper wires to ignition. Racked open throttle and gave it a squirt of Brake Kleener while I connected the jumper cable to starter. Away it went with a struggle. Reached over to the distributor and gave it an arbitrary twist toward advance and tried it again. It took right off and ran solid as long as I kept feeding it fuel. Hooked up a quart container of gasoline with a piece of nylon tubing to fill the carburetor and tried it again. It took of again and ran steady and would answer the calling of the throttle. Whoo Hoo! Good oil pressure, 80 psig. Shut it off and let it cool for a few minutes and repeated the process. Same good results. I had no water in the system so I had to limit the running time to just a few seconds.

Nothing like firing an engine up after an overhaul. What a feeling of success.

 

Boy, those photos bring back memories. When I rebuilt Gertie's flathead, I also painted it Ford blue instead of the bronze they were originally covered with.

Good job! Ain't nuthin' like the smell of a new engine either.

 

Congrats! You can retire your imitation vroom-vroom noises.

DW

 

That's looking good, Steve!

 

congrats, look really nice..... i'm also going with a blue engine.

 

Thats fantastic news!!

Congrats on getting it lit off. Thanks for the pics, thats a great looking engine

Bobby

 

WOW!! That's really Blue. Way cool. Wish I had one to play with. Saw an old V4 Wisconsin flat motor the other day. May just grab it and play with it in the spare bed room cuz I don't have a shop. Damn that looks like fun. Thanks Bud

 

The color is actually cobalt blue. It is a GM color and I thought it would contrast well with the final body color of bright lime green

 

Does anyone know how to install anti-rattle guides for a 1948 Ford F1? It seems these "pop in rails" I bought from LMC truck are C@#&P. They keep popping out.

 

Congradulations . Sure feels good when things go well . Don't forget to retorque your heads after your first few warm up /cool down cycles .

 

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