Ever buy something Spur of the moment? Went to the local scrap yard to pick up some John Deere parts and found this sitting buy the walking path. I keep hearing that flatheads had a unique sound and had to find out my self, so I bought it and got it to run on my shop floor. I have no plans for it, dont have anything to put it into and paid way too much to try to resell it. What the heck was I thinking?
make it look pretty and save it for the project you havent thought up yet. or just sell it for what you got into it, give it a good home...its lookin like a stray dog in the back of that pick up truck.
...build a stand for it so every once in awhile you can just fire it up just to hear it run; put some nice pipes/ glasspacks on it.
Tell us what you paid for it. I doubt anyone here will give you a hard time over the price, and I'm guessing some people will comment that it's worth twice what you paid.
yup, what did ya pay for it? funny how things work, crap, I have a complete 40 ford truck with flatty 8, transmission and rear. and I cant even move the whole thing for 800. ! I hear all the time froze up flattys selling for 500. crap mine will probably fire right up and run and it wont sell. On yours, I am interested in what you paid for it and when you bought it, was it a "gamble" or were you told it runs?
Its that sound, theres just no denying it! Everytime I hear my Flatbrokes car rumble by.......I WANT ONE. Hold on to it
Externally...which may mean nothing...parts are '52-3 Merc installed in a big truck, with Ford or Ford truck intake. I'll take it!!
Good catch. I don't think I would go out of my way to put lower compression Merc heads on a Ford. But then again I got excited when I found out that the motor mounts in my '46 Ford 1/2 ton w/ 8BA were not homemade -- they were '49 Merc car as were the water pumps. Then I recalled the fellow that I bought it from said he owned a '49 Merc back then also, he even had one of the 15" Merc wheels with hubcap on the truck (so of course I started thinking he dropped that motor in the truck). But in the end it was just an 8BA (by the way the Merc pumps and mounts didn't fit all that well in the truck).
Merc pumps just have the brackets a couple of inches higher and fractionally different in spacing...need spacer blocks for use in early Ford or truck.
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It wasnt stuck so I knew there was hope, after I put points in it and some gas I got it to run. Yesterday I completed a stand, wired it up so I can start it and hear it run at a push of a button and its got 50 PSI oil pressure at idle.
End table for your living room? Clean it up, paint it, put it on a stand in the kitchen? Bitchin'! I love flatties! I'm sure you'll find something to put it in! If not, I'm sure someone would be glad to take it off your hands...
Looks like the guy I fired for using the heat wrench found him self a new job outta state Oh well I dont think you paid too much Ken
You should be able to get that back out of it easy. My brother in law needs that in his '27 T roadster. I hope he doesn't go small chevy again.
500 bucks for 1 flathead that will run is damn good these days. 500 bucks for 2 is better, (yeah I did that) Cool.
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