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false alarm. the crank looks brand new but it is not an upgraded merc crank like i thought. shes just a 239.....
that's a good idea super streak. thanks
is the crank the only thing diffent from a 239 and 255?
UPDATE. the crank is a mercury crank. I was bragging in an earlier post about how nice the crank looked and somebody told me to double check it...
ok thanks a lot. i kinda figured they would bring quite a bit more than an 8ba in the same condition.
I started a thread about my first ever 239 flathead a couple days ago that I saved from the scrapper and ill be damned if I wasn't talking about...
well damn I think ill let the next one I see stay on the trailer and get scrapped
i actually got it to break free and turn over, I still yanked the pistons out and everything looked real good. I did have to break on of the...
thanks everybody for all the info too its been very helpful
thanks neal this is what im going to do tomorrow. I the bolt just keeps tightening , started to rip into the washer, so im just going to take it...
Question time! how the heck can I get the motor to turn over if all the crank bolt does is keep tightened? the motor moved a little bit back and...
thanks a lot for the info guys im gonna start breaking it down now and see how everything looks inside. also thanks kevin and the others that...
thanks a lot 53olderthanme for this it helped a lot! it looks like I got myself a 1952 ford 239
it had a tranny attached to it that had a couple blown gears in it so im pretty sure/hoping that's why it was pulled. it came out of a f5 big...
I know nothing about flatheads but this was literally on the way to the scrapper, I stopped the guy and asked him what his plans were and he said...
put a 55-64 rear end in it with like 336 gears in it and you can cruise 75 all day with low rpms. ive don't the swap 3 or 4 times. easy, cheap and...
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