Mike Hermon from H&H fixed the heads so the valves clear, he said that every once in a while, the core shifts, then he has to adjust everything. Well, my set had to be that set. He fixed it up right, and sent me some gaskets for my troubles. I went to put the engine in today, heads, pan, front cover, got her all ready to install, then I searched high and low for the motor mount rubber donut...nothing. Now I gotta order a whole new mount set up. oh well, here are some photos, the magic of a good camera ;D ...can't see all the warts in my paint job. I wish I counted the hours smoothing the block, waterpumps, etc. Heads, pan, pumps on, ready for the clutch and pressure plate. should be snappy with an aluminum flywheel Sitting waiting for one more little donut mount.
I would like to know some of the steps and materials you used to get the block that smooth. Fuckin real nice man!
I have some odds and ends, may have a spare rubber part. Got a pic of the other side as I have several styles in my stash? And that engine is sexy!
I would check where the dog poops for the doughnut ! I had a extra set but they have not been replaced yet ?
Very Nice! Having spent many an hour grinding and polishing blocks, I much appreciate the work and the 'dirty nose' that you achieve in the process. Very nice stuff . . . glad you hooked up with Mike, he's good people! Dale
You have to first nail down the heavy stuff with an angle grinder, and rough paper on rolls. Then you work up the paper till you get to around 120. The key is to make long strokes, and to make sure you don't have waves. The sides of the block aren't as nice as the top, but you can't see them. Once it basically looks like chrome, I shot some cheap black on it to see if it's straight; if not, keep going. Once it's all smooth, off to the machine shop, then back, then soap and water, then brake clean, then tack rag, then you shoot it with etching primer, then black, then clear...all buzz bomb. If I was totally anal, I would sand it down and shoot it again, but I'm not. Also, I wouldn't recommend doing this unless you have an all out show car, it's a bitch.
hahaha, i sold a flathead to FlatErnie, and it stuck to one of the water pumps. He's mailing it to me. What a pain.
That looks really nice. For what it's worth, after lunching the transmission in my old car I got rid of the donuts when I saw how smashed and worn out they were after so few miles. Went to a skate shop and bought a set of wheels. Flycut them to the proper thickness on a mill and they worked great.
Please don't let this hi-jack the eye candy in the is thread I notice after looking at a few I had around some have a metal washer inside of them and some don't. I'd was wondering if the ones with the metal washer inside of them would last longer than the just rubber ones. Anyone have any thoughts.
Apparently there are several repro suppliers, and some donuts are very soft. Stock rubber is quite firm. Look around. Repro hardware is not very good or sometimes even complete...try to find a set of original mounts and steal the hardware from those.
I recently looked at a car that had similar problems with the "too smooshy" mounts- instead of Slimeballs, he used cut down hockey pucks. they have a cool "checked" pattern on the edge... However, due to location, I figure You're in just about as good of shape trying to find 2 hockey pucks. Looks Bitchin Matt. Really nice. I have only ever done that treatment to the inside of an engine. which also equaled several days of Iron Oxide boogers.
Kool looking motor, can't wait for part 4. H&H is currently building a french FH should be done next month.
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