well i was tired of trying to straighten the black hole up, so i decided to add to the clutter instead . i pulled my heads off the flatty . unlike our resident cave man i am in awe of the great shape mine is in . other than a lot of carbon on the bolts , and in the cylinders she's in exceptional shape . no leaks around the bolts as i have heard of and been warned of . the gaskets were leaking on both sides , the drivers was the center water ports and the rear ports , the paassenger side was the center ports and the front water ports . no visible cracks or anything paculiar to be seen , and the valve that has the weak spring is intact and undamaged despite being beat on for so long . the lifter galley is ultra clean { something to do with religous 1,000 mile oil changes and constantly fussing over it i think ! } and no gook in it and all else other tha some grinding in the water pumps , is aok . well i'mstill gonna pull her up to replace some gaskets that are leaking a little bit , , a good thorough cleaning , and repaint , as well as replacing a few worn parts , and hopefully a wee bit of a cam . i lied to the wife told her it had a cam lobe that was flat spotting , not totally gone but on it's way ..... BAD KEVIN welp later guys im off to slumber land , 2 am comes too early .

 

That's a good report. I've yet to pull mine apart but I hope my experience is similar to yours and not the caveman.

 

this is before i scraped off the remaining gasket material ....

 

Looks to be in good shape. That carbon should have protected the cylinder walls very well.

 

So that's what it's supposed to look like?, lol

 

I donno.......sure looks like you could lean it out a little.......



Cheers,


Rick
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Okay I dont think anyone noticed this but what is that mountain dew bottle for? Radiator overflow tank? Windshield washer resivor? water bottle to add water to radiator?

 

rusty it's an overflow that was quickly improvised when she started to push coolant out pretty badly , then it quit after i cobbled it up ! as far as leaning it out rick i have done everything including going through that carn sarned holley , and it just won't do it . thats one of the reasons i'm switching it over to a rochester . you think it's bad now you shoulda seen how rich she was running when i first got her , and after 20 plus of sitting inoperable . yep havi , my dear caveman , that's kinda what they look like . would like to talk to you and see if your's thats junk had the factory aluminum intake and / or timing cover of the light stuff . thinking about maybe putting some shiny stuff on her ........ da-n i'm gonna turn into a gold chainer if i ain't careful !!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats what I was thinking, I saw one in a magazine dedicated to vintage style hotrods the guy had a jack daniels bottle as his overflow.

 

Don't ever mistake a flathead for a modern EFI engine! The large combustion chamber tends to soot up easily. Here is mine with about 500 miles on it after its rescue, and after cleaning it up.

 

Just like to rub it in, don't you guys.

Ir snowed today, but tomorrow it's supposed to get nice, so I'll be out in the garage pulling the heads on my other engine.

 

Kevin what did you end up with for the rochester? I looked at that option a while back and noticed that the 2bbl comes in different cfm per application. I think that a buick v6 came closest to the same cid as the flatmotor. are you going to use that Merc. intake, the one with the rectangle 4 bolt carb base that you had hanging around the garage? I think that it might be the same pattern as the rochester?

 

Hells Bells, Man. That looks good.
I'd probably replace the spring, acquire some new gaskets and button er up...slim

 

I'm kinda upset since it's been 80F this week that we are going to get rain this weekend. I know I know... it's a huge sacrifice to deal with 70F but I will survive because we need the rain

Right Charlie ??!!!

 

By the Way... Those pics of a flattie with the heads off are beautiful. Few of us would really appreciate that.....