1948 Ford 337 Flathead V8 Revival - EP2 | Pulling Heads/Intake
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- Back to work on the flatty. Finally going to pull the heads and intake to find out the condition inside.
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When I did my flathead v8 I was told by a friend that they didn’t do a good job at cleaning the sand out after casting. I hung the block in several different positions each time pressure washing in water jacket holes and scratching in them with a coat hanger wire. I did this over a large sheet of cardboard because I wanted to see how much sand came out. The sand filled one of those large coffee cans over half full. It has never overheated, even in a parade.
You just did a great job tearing this down...don't listen to those that ALWAYS have everything figured out and have to criticize something/anything. They just need to make themselves feel superior...JUST Feel sorry for them and ignore...
ANYWAY, I'm 68 now and worked on a few back in the days growing up on a Ranch/Farm in the great state of Montana. Your collection of trucks brings back memories and I thank you every time you pan your trucks...just one request....one time go slower so I can take them all in. No, I don't have a fetish or some weird thing, just remembering some great times.
I was a lot like you and had to have all the military and older trucks I could get my hands on. Working on the Ranch I needed some tough-ass truck to get supplies, parts and even feed over to the other side of our mountain and the 6x6 was the only thing capable of getting that done without all the pain in the ass effort of even my 67 1ton 4x4 Chev, front inset bumper mounted 16K winch. I know you're a Blue-Oval Guy but about any of those and the Red-Bowtie's outdid all the rest back then. To be honest, it is all about equal between those two and just more personal preference. I liked the Bowtie layout and had more experience with them...that was the only difference to me. Not slamming your Oval at all. Both were tops in those early days. The Power Wagon was not bad but just had too many breakdowns for my taste and brakes were a nightmare compared to my Bowtie's.
Back to your 337 Flathead. You've prob finished my now...I only found your site yesterday or I'd have chimed in earlier. I use a cone wire wheel on a drill and don't let it get that hot so use it on slower speed.
Then clean it with soap and water (YES, SOAP AND WATER, even today's machine shops use a quality brand dish soap and warm water to clean after any machining) after a good pressure wash. after a warm water rinse spray WD-40 all over and inside every nook and cranny to dispense any water, use the blow gun on your compressor to dry it as soon as you finish the WD-40 treatment.
I always use the WDS-40 after any honing cylinders and use WHITE PAPER TOWELS to wipe the WD-40 out of the inside of the cylinder and keep cleaning until the paper towel is still white after the wipe-down. You MUST DO this to get the piston-rings to seat faster and more even. Even the slightest amount of shavings left on the cylinder walls will not allow the rings, even older rings, to seat evenly and thus get better sealing that equates to better compression.
Also use just the finest emery cloth to very lightly polish the journals and old bearings ( Just to get them smooth and not enough to take any material away...this is just to polish and that takes the roughness off the ridges of any scoring..just be easy and trust in yourself and you'll instinctively know just how little it takes) you might even use dollar bill to polish any bearing...yes a dollar bill has enough roughness the it can and will polish a bearing surface enough to reuse if needed and big end rod bearing surfaces...That engine does not like super tight tolerances and will just create more friction thus more heat if it is very tight. So a little on the loose side will get better cooling and better fuel-efficiency.
They are a fun engine because they are so simple and easy to work on.
Always try to use only a straight 30W and add the break in oil with ZINC with each oil change...multi viscosity does not do the same as the straight 30W...you can still get it at NAPA because all small engines and compressors use 30W. I think NAPA can even get the old 30W Zinc oil for you if you really want it.
Great luck to you Bud.
No advice, im just enjoying watching you work on the old thing. Outside of a lawnmower ive never touched a flathead either. I bet that was a good running engine when it was pulled out and just stored poorly.
blow or wipe all loose stuff prior to working on the flathead. Just a thought...
Skip Stein It is being torn down on an engine stand. Not worried about it
I was thinking the same but I was thinking, do u not have a shop vac or some kind of blower? Save yourself a little work & not have 2 worry bout any garbage falling in the motor. But I hear what he's saying about not worrying about it. I'm just Weird about dirt being around any spots where it can fall in @. Thanks 4 filming ur work.
You need a shop vac or air to get all the crap off the motor
The intake was clean, until you took it off with all the dirt still sitting on the outside. 5 minutes work before you pulled it to bits would probably save it from being trashed.
This engine needs to be torn all the way down or nothing at all. I agree that the dirt is annoying, but this isn't an engine that should be "cleaned up and started" without a complete tear down.
I agree, what is it with folks that don't keep good housekeeping?
If I had gone near an engine like that when I was younger and didn't clear ALL the debris away, my dad would've knocked my block off.
The engine looks a gud un as well, with all that crud getting into the gubbings, it won't be long a gud un.
Great video- only one criticism not cleaning before disassembly risking crud getting in. I'm 70y old my late father was a ford flathead V8 fan. brings back memories.
Young puppies know everything . But he can not put it undercover.How did you remove an engine without a hoist two men and a bar a chain.
Seen this 337 flatty in 49-51 Lincoln Cosmo's and late 40's cab over trucks.Never heard of one being hot rodded.Do'nt know why.
Be on the lookout for an abandoned fork lift to rescue! Watching your videos in many cases, brings back fond (and some embarrassing) times when I was a youngster, tearing things down, building and so on in the early sixties. As a suggestion for moving flatty, pick it up with the boom truck, and sit it down as close to the shop door as possible, then use the tractor to slide it inside, pallet and all. Been there, done that! Still do that sort of thing now, but am probably old enough to know better! Keep up the great content!!
The valves look as though there in excellent condition and can be cleaned up and reground seated otherwise the rest of the motor will need machining, these were quite a modern engine in their heyday and were used in cars trucks and even an aeroplane in the late 30s .these engines were manufactured from 1932 up to 1954 5 and continued in the australian built mainline utes until 1956 and than u had the ohv y block.
Wire wheel that rusty cylinder up,It will be fine!
You are hundred percent right and I wish to be there even at my 68 years of age, that would be like a walk in the park and we could have the time of our life playing with that toy, too bad I am thousands of miles away, enjoy all you can with it, wishing the best of it from Puerto Rico. ....Jesus Torres.
Wire cup on grinder. Clean her up good. New gaskets, oil+ filter. Mabye new spark plugs. Clean carb, mabye carb kit? She will run again! revved up yooper. P.S. nice video
Great engine
Looks like an interesting Ford V8 side valve or "flat head". Was this engine also used on their trucks? Thanks for posting, looking forward to the rebuild.
WHY did you NOT clean off the engine BEFORE starting tear down-just Baffles me! Just adds to further complications. Rich
It went to an engine stand to be torn down anyhow. Get over it
That engine wasn't that dirty anyway, He did OK.
Hey g,days from Australia l just found your great channel, How do folks live with all that white stuff (snow)., l live 1-1/2 hr form the snow, but you guys live with it , we have the hot summer, love all of your trucks & the Toyota hi lux ute.. its a aussie thing...
What snow? I dont see much snow
Use .CARFULLY. EMORY cloth and clean. It happened to me. Water got into a back sylinder waiting for my heads. It was close, but that 360, in that 71 f100 came tru and i was very very HAPPY👍👍👍👈👈🇺🇸
A pump bottle full of water & dish soap + some compressed air works wonders before tear down action occurs. It’s a flathead, how much better could it get?
You noticed how the R. side head just kind of slid off and the l. side took some effort that was a indication that your R. side head gasket was blown. I don't think rai n got in it the way that carb. is made . Just pull the pan off wash the sucker very gooed, hone the cylinders as evenly as you can ,lap your valves, put it together with good parts . Find yourself a good assembly book or overhaul book or an old timer to give you some advice .You'll do OK . Flatheads aren't that hard just take your time . Stop looking for dirt and wash the whole thing.
Rebuilding the famous Ford Flathead-by Ron Bishop-(old time master) or Vern Tardel-same deal.
That "oil can" is the oil filter.
I'm in sutton doing the same with my 337...first for me too...maybe we can get thru this together lol
Awesome! Glad I'm not the only one messing with a 337. Good luck with your project!
Looks a lot better then my 47 ford engine did when I took the heads off. You can see the top of your pistons.
Harbor Freight sells a gallon of "EvapoRust" for about $30 that can help disolve rust in a cylinder. You could have just removed the cap and left the distributor timed in its hole.
You've done more on a flat head than me my old Buick has a straight 8
Nice video and good luck cleaning up that mess
clean all the dirt off the top ( should have done it first thing. lube all the valve stems with pb. as you rotate engine tap the valve with composite mallet, always tap in the center of valve ,so you don't bend the stem or worse break off the valve head( that would be a real disaster)put a pipe wrench on the crankshaft snout behind the pulley not on front nut might stretch bolt threads or worse snap it off. good luck pete.
What’s your real job?
I just want to see what the cylinder with the rusty valves look like and are those valves stuck are they stuck or where they hitting the crap on the head
I had a question on one of your video's. If I came up next summer could you take me to see the Old Roadhouse with the Mercury on it's side?. I'm down in Washington.
Good morning bud what's on the agenda for today ☺️
Take another pallet and put some wheels on it then set the motor and pallet on top and push it in the garage.
That isn't a 1948 engine. Would be a '49 - '53 engine. The flat distributer, '39 to '48 was in front between the water pumps under the fan slide mount. Looks fairly good in side 'cept the one cylinder. Bad spark plug maybe. Many years since I dug into one of those.
Never mind, if that's a Lincoln, I know nothing, but I think they were used in trucks as well. At 78 getting a bit forgetful.
The 337 Ford/Lincoln Flathead v8 is it’s own unique thing. Little bit different design from all the others. Aside from being very heavy, that’s why they never hot rodded them.
Please pressure wash it first to save yourself grief.
And to save the viewers some grief lol.
tag on inside of bag to prevent moisture
Hey what is the giant sheave on the back of the bell housing for? Was it not in a vehicle?
Love your channel! You rock!!
I do believe that it had a blown head gasket on the water jacket side. Not really a big deal
Cracked head; between spark plug holes?
Do you carry?
Are you sure that is a 1948 ford flathead? I have never heard of a 337 flathead before.
The 337 was the industrial Flathead by Ford. They weren’t too mainstream. Exclusive to heavy duty trucks and Lincoln cars of the ere. They are also extremely heavy so never really got hotrodded.
Amigo me puedes ayudar con en motor de ese modelo me pasó agua al.aceite y los empaques dela cabeza no están quemados por dónde se puede meter agua al motor. ????
Need to build a smart cart to push into garage engines.
I paused ya at about six min. in.... the fuel pump on those flat heads when they got a little sloppy and not pumping enough fuel to run right, we took some thin metal that was forced into the cup and take a few thousands out of slack and it would put a good flow of fuel in to keep running. I have used like the beer can snipped out and shaped to fit before but I am sure that cola will work too/LOL. I sent this video out to a few at I watch. I hope some already watch but if they don't they need to as they work under their roof an make air sounds with their air tool an some even make cordless sounds.... wouldn't that be nice out in your woodpile empire. I see ways to make money there that doesn't involve growing weed. Don't get me wrong as I smoke , but don't grow cause I get too many friends who just want a bump or twenty more later. I see you sawing lumber with a bandsaw and making some bank with that in your second channel called "Greasy Lumber Co. " so what cha think?? It all counts and its hard to find work in your area... Most lumber sales in barter but hey, there is money in that too. A great engine was the 337 lincoln engine.... dad had one in his F8 and it did just great. He took a light pole out with it and it never ran after that. I did the work on all his junk of the day... good video..
I just had a thought , anything you want to know about flatheads contact Ironhead Garage. He can help you with anything you want . Checkout his channel , It's pretty good
never a waste of time / now you know for a fact what is going on
No no no, perfect excuse to buy a bigger tractor? A man has to have lifting power.