If you pull the engine and leave the trans in place be sure to support the front of the trans. or if will fall down when it seperates from the engine.

 

so update. i pulled the covers off and the pistons are showing now.... alot of rust in the oil canals..... im hoping i can get it hottanked and ill be good . i have pictures just i dont know how to post them..... they are saved on my desktop.

 

Posting pictures here will be a bigger challange that rebuilding that engine! It's a pain.

 

does the head look like its rebuildable, its almost to the point where i wanna maybe just engine swap, but then again, this is my challange.

 

That's just what flatties look like when you pull the heads. Have you tried turning the crank bolt?...slim

 

Do you want the f1 crossmember or do you want the larger truck crossmember with the dip? I have both. If you are interested email me at fifty-two_f1@ndwave.com

 

so its fine if it looks like that. get em hottanked and new gaskets fluid flush and i might be ok.... hmmm sounds way too easy.... any other suggestions?

 

enjoy the hades out of it .............. denver is right thats just the way they look . my 53 is my first flatty and i'm still on a learning curve . i took the heads off mine and intake , to change valvesprings and even with running coolant my passages looked like that ! i'd be willing to bet clean all the gook out of it and put it together she'll run , no rebuild needed. this is one tough ol' sob of a motor .

 

There is no oil running in the heads of a flathead, all those pictures show the cooling passages. Even hot-tanking usually doesn't get it all out, lots of poking and chiping with heavy wire and high-pressure spray will help. The blocks don't have a drain plug so dirt and rust accumulate at the back of the block. Very important to get as much out as possible. But check for cracks before you spend too much time on it.

 

we all forgot to tell him about the little cracks so many have around some of the headbolts . they're no biggie . number dummy can give you the ford part number for those cracks that's how common they seem to be ........ mine doesn't but many do and it doesn't hurt them .

 

u guys are scaring me, pulling the motor tommorow, cross your fingers

 

dont be scared !!! it'll be fine ! i couldnt see any reason why it wouldnt run w/ a little cleaning from your photo's !!!!!!!!!! oh lokk is that a crack in photo 2 . hmmmmmmmmm.............. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

funny funny. is there an easy way to check for cracks or is it all by eye??? gotta remember first rebuild tryin to learn alot lol

 

the ones i'm referring too i easy to see and i had an early block that had some and it's in a car running . as far as hairline cracks , or a cracked water jacket . have the machine shop pressure test and magnaflux it . cheap insurance . don't let some peep who doesn't know anything 'bout them try to put in studs or anything . the guy here that bought my early blocks let capitol machine aka tim wilersons shop do it and the guy who did it put a long stud in a short bolt hole and walla instant conversation peice . i and the owner both knew peeps in the shop and they said the machinist did it as he didnt know , didnt ask , didnt read or anything . the shop managers didnt say anything , he took it home put it together and fired it and had antifreeze coming out of an exhaust port . they said " it was like that " . right !!!!!!!!!! gotta get back in my truck and go pretend to do something now later !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I've got two flatty's I could restore if I had the time and money. Maybe some day I will, but I've never done anything with them, so I'll be following this thread with interest. I've debated putting one of the flatty's in my truck but if I'm cruising down through Nebraska and lose a water pump or something like that I'd like to be able to hit the nearest part store and be back on the road.