Jailbar woody wagon
#391
nice job ,keep posting pictures. i will be doing the same thing this winter with my engine.
if no cracks are found. are the cracks hard to find, like always in the same places! i don,t have access to engine rebuilder around here. and not sure they know anything on flatheads. i was hoping to get away with passing stones,new rings bearings and seals.
if no cracks are found. are the cracks hard to find, like always in the same places! i don,t have access to engine rebuilder around here. and not sure they know anything on flatheads. i was hoping to get away with passing stones,new rings bearings and seals.
#392
nice job ,keep posting pictures. i will be doing the same thing this winter with my engine.
if no cracks are found. are the cracks hard to find, like always in the same places! i don,t have access to engine rebuilder around here. and not sure they know anything on flatheads. i was hoping to get away with passing stones,new rings bearings and seals.
if no cracks are found. are the cracks hard to find, like always in the same places! i don,t have access to engine rebuilder around here. and not sure they know anything on flatheads. i was hoping to get away with passing stones,new rings bearings and seals.
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#395
GB, a lot of the old time small community mechanics did very much the same as you are doing now. Often done right in the car. In chassis overhaul (not to be confused with rebuilt) Rings, bearings and grind or lap the valves. Times were much simpler then and people drove less. It would buy another few years on a tired engine in a time when cars usually ended up in the junkyard by the time they had 60,000 miles, especially the lower geared trucks.
#396
In 1967 my folks moved us from North Seattle to a small town in Massachussets. The man next door was a chief engineer in the merchant marine and when I met him he was lapping in the valves of his wife's older volvo sedan in their garage. It was so far from anything my insurance broker dad would do and I stuck with this guy until it was back in the car. I was 14 and became a confirmed gearhead. Never did get the yankee accent though.
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#403
Here is some inspiration to get out there and work on your truck!
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#404
Here is some inspiration to get out there and work on your truck!
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#405
At this time last year I was working on the woodie every day. Not so this year. It has been much colder than normal and we finally got really busy again with work. There is no practical way to heat that shop. It is just too wide open. I have been working on the engine and am ready for the flywheel and heads at this point. I had the flywheel re-drilled for a half ton type 10" clutch. Now I need to get it to my local napa for refacing. At this time I am getting door handles and latches figured out. The handles are about 2 1/2" below the belt line, much the same as the '40-'41 ford woodies. Also I have settled on pre-'75 toyota landcruiser fj 40 latch assemblies. They are ruggedly built, have the correct configuration regarding handle/shaft locations and I already had two on some old doors in my attic. I welded a 90degree flange onto the stock base of the latch for better attachment to the back side of the door. I am mating these latches to jailbar era outer door handles. I see that I have 3 of them kicking around but only one is stainless. Should I be looking for '42 handles if I want stainless? It is really becoming a frankenwoodie, and I'm not done yet!