You must be eating the feed again, that blows the accuracy of this scientific
test. Got rain, it looks like its about to come down in Alameda.
.....=o&o>.....

 

You must be eating the feed again

don't let my secret out!


got rain , nope but i have 50 mph wind. i am watching trees get bent like twigs. i think there will be a lot of clean up thsi weekend.

 

Alameda has 4.3 mph, SSE direction I can hold a match outside.
I'm going to hurt later must sleep.
.....=o&o>.....

 

i have work in 5 mins gotta roll.

 

but today i am getting paid to work on my favorite engines a matched set of 391 FT engines both in giant corn harvesters , neither has run since 86 both ruste dot hell. owner wants to use them. going to do a field rebuild. hope the heads are decent. i should be done by 12. later

 

now that's FUNNNY!!!!! i just weighed one about 3 months ago, 59 lbs....

 

I tried to remember what the bell felt like the las time I lifted it, and my guess was 65lbs. So seeing somebody else with the same estimate feels right.

And, yep, the c4 is a detatchable aluminum bell, and FE's are available. I'm going with the C4 over the c6 because of weight. I read an article last night that quoted Art Carr as saying that the C6 doesn't use any more power than the c4 or Powerglide. But I'm still gonna use the Performance Automatics C4 which is lifetime guaranteed to 1000hp.

-Scouder

 

Think I'll stick with my plan of a T-18 and a torque splitter behind my little FE block. (8 forward and 2 reverse)

Carl, what the heck you doing up so early in the morn?
Stormin prett good over here too.

 

I said 55# for the bell housing, what did I win?
sierraben, just stupid I guess back up at 8:30, I was on a the hunt with the Dyno Sims program and couldn't stop. Rained rather hard after 5:00 am, still coming down.
.....=o&o>.....

 

"Beemer Nut", what ever the dyno sim says, it's not enough horse power.

You need more.

Stopped raining here, but got some wind going on.

Might head to Baker Beach.

I wonder what Mavericks lools like?

Probably 30+ footers.

 

Stay far back and out of the water, bet its pounding out there.
.....=o&o>.....

 

I hope it is.

It's my kind of weather.

Heck, I may even trot on down to Fort Point.

Worst comes to worst, I may float over to Alemeda.

You ever past your electricians test you were studing for?

 

i'm back, what should have been a 8 hour day turned into 13. those had to be the hardest set of engines i have ever worked on.

 

ford390gashog, what's involved in a field rebuild?

Just curious.

 

a lot of pain.

it started at 4:00 , i have been awake now for 48 hours and am tired.


guy was asking around for a mechainic who would come to his farm and fix these 2 old vintage harvesters. so i gave him a call , went out and quoted him 2k an engine to R&R each one including parts. he said ok. both are original ft's 391's. got there at 4:30 spent a hour pulling weeds of the engine(20 years of dirt and weeds on a uncovered engine). much to my suprise there was a c-6 auto bolted to it , i said ''huh?''. followed by "oh crap" this was the stupidist setup i had ever seen if i saw this when i first bid the job i would not have done it. each harvestor had a c-6 then mounted to the yoke was a hydraulic pump , these were hydrostatic drive units. got the first engine out in an hour, put it on the engine stand and pressure washed and degreased it. pulled the heads checked the seats(mint!!!! looks like little use) so i only replaced the seals, pulled the rest of the engine apart. honed the cylinders, checked the crank and rods(all within spec) , pressure washed the bare block, installed freeze plugs,new cam bearings,summit rv cam and lifters, installed new rings , new sanp rings on the wrist pins,new main bearings and rod bearings, new double roller timing chain,reinstalled the heads, rebuilt the carb, installed intake and timing cover,then installed a new oil pan,new m57 oil pump ,new dizzy and wires + plugs,stock rockers (so i had to set them using various size pushrods). rebuilt the first engine from start to finish in 3 hours. installed it in about 30 mins. drained and refilled the tranny and changed filter,dumped the gas tank and installed new hoses. put a new battery in and fired it up(started first try) broke the cam in for 30 mins. then set the idle speed and timing and let it idle for another 30. the enigne sounded sweet! no just multiply this by 2! i spent about 700.00 in parts and pocketed 2300.00.

these had not been used since 85, took it thru the field after 20 years of sitting and it pefromed like new (minus the shears not working) but thats another day. those big machines really had a lot of power.

the flex plates each had 50 oz of weights going around the outer edge.