Glug , Glug , 😊, Glug , Glug!!! Sounds like one hard pulling pulpwood SumBitch. Imagine having this as your alarm clock, you would wake up every morning in a great mood. Sure wish i would have saved every Flathead that i could have gotten when i was a kid. Id see scrap haulers with beat up cars , with still running engines getting hauled off. They usta be common around sawmills being used as skid powerplants. Id enjoy listening to them in a hard pull. That gurgling sound is just so mesmerizing
Year's ago all you could do with one of those engines was used them for scrap or as a boat anchor they we're valuable for anything else. Now their becoming a priceless item once again. I personally Love the Ole stuff, so simple and straight forward, back in the ole days just about any one was able to do work on these ole babies, they were such simple machines.
I'm friends with a Y-block and Flathead hoarder. I used to rebuild generators and starters for decades. Kind of fun. The voltage regulator settings will become a lost art.
Again, smiles say it all. Great accomplishment. What a feeling when you get a motor to run for the first time after it's been sitting for some time. Keep up the great work.
Blowing air into the coolant passages is exactly what I did on my 26 Oakland after it had been Parked for 75 years. Made a huge difference in how clean the coolant is, and it stays nice and cool now that we got it running again.
A neighbor of mine raced flatheads on the local dirt track circuit. I ended up with a modified 37 Ford 6 window coupe. Needed an engine, so my friend tutored me in flatheads. I picked up a flathead block and assessories.It was on a bench and I was trying to remove the valve assembles out of the block with the valve pry bar . They were really stuck. One in particular I was really prying on finally broke loose, flew half way across the shop and crashed threw one of his windows. He also tutored me in window glass replacement.
It's nice when you get an engine that old & setting for so many years to fire up quite easily . That it has an old school early super charger is fantastic . I'm glad there wasn't much wrong with it , & it's going to look awesome in the shop truck ! Take care guys ! Enjoying this build like all of the rest !
WOW! When that motor fired right up, a smile crossed my face from ear to ear. Kudo's to the Iron Trap Team! I know this shop truck is gonna' be a stellar Hot Rod, but a blown Flatty is going to take her to the next level!!!
Morning Matt & Steve!! Really appreciate your video's, I can't get out in the shop right now due to family issues, your flathead will make a awesome motor for the shop truck!! Be safe!! God Bless!!!
Good stuff! I owned a 53 Anniversary model Ford Customline (50th anniversary model) here in Australia back in the later 1960’s as a young fella an Australian produced car I loved its wonderful 239 ci sidewacker engine, One of my many cars over the years I wish I still had, always loved the flathead Fords 👍
This is the project that hot rod purists dream of that never comes to fruition. When you pulled that truck from the barn I would've never thought it would house a supercharged flathead. Especially a setup as abnormal and odd as that one. And it's going to be a shop truck. This is absolutely wild and awesome
@@IronTrapGarage darn right it'll stand out! Don't plan on making "quickie" runs to the parts stores because people will be wondering what fer engine ya have there. Most people have never seen or heard of a McCollough blower. Just printout a paper about it and give it out, unless you want to discuss it for 20 minutes everytime you stop.☺
NOTHING sounds as sweet as a flathead....period! Still remember in the fifties, every year we went for rides in "Dune-Scooters" on the sand dunes of west Michigan. They were all early Fords, '34, '42 and '48 flatties, wide open throttle and straight pipes...up and down the dunes we'd go, with DC'3 airplane tires. I would look forward to those Goosebumps every year, and I can still hear them!
It's going to be fun "running parts" in the pickup. Nice work from everyone on this start up. Keep it up as always and thanks for showing it to us. I have never been a flathead fan until finding your channel a few years ago. Out here almost all the flathead engines are useless. I heard a ratio of 1 in 10 usable blocks. The flathead I had in my '51, when I was a kid, used so much water I had to drive from gas station to gas station to get anywhere. I am warming up 'cause they look and sound cool.
you folks havev some of the greatest subscribers..and knowledgeable...well deserved because you guys give back..do not preach or cry for money every other minute..and we all dig the eclectic vehicles you have there..
i have a '34 BB with original 21 stud I hope to get running soon. I dont know much about flat heads, and im hoping its not junk, its been sitting for 5+ years i was told. Turns over by hand, but I havent gotten any farther than that. Hoping to get to working on it as it warms up! Thank you for all the great videos. It keeps me dreaming about the future and kept me motivated through the winter.
Matt, you are hitting another home run with that roadster pickup! This is one of those projects that "nothing fancy" is gonna be so darned neat! Good luck and many thanks for all of the great fun videos of the popular rods, customs .......and flatheads! You da man! And I must add that you are such a knowledgable and talented young man in this subject! I must add also that my first job working on a flathead race motor at 11 years old was scraping the gasket and Permatex remnants off. That was when we soon learned that aluminum paint sealed great and came apart very easily. I have built lots of race motors and never had aluminum paint leak or be hard to disassemble.
Kinda fun! I think I would have dropped the oil pan looking for crap BEFORE I started it - but you're learning. I loved when you both near jumped out of your skin when you lit the it first time (inside) - those old flatheads are like that, they can light quicker than you can get your hand off the switch! It'll be interesting to see how it runs with that 'charger on it! Have Fun!!!
I inherited my dads '28 roadster truck with that same Mcculloch charger but in chrome. Drivetrain needs more fab but its 80% done. He has an earlier version that's the 2 piece blower but I don't believe he has the matching pully setup with it. This is a great build I will be following very closely. Thanks guys and keep up the great work.
One thing that speeds up the water jacket cleanout is to put a shop vac on the larger holes to pull the debris up after you break it loose from the bottom. I've had rockers, cowls and roof bracing that had mouse nests in them, and no way to access them except for holes at either end. I was chasing mouse crap and dust back and forth with an air gun, and putting a mouse dust coating on the whole garage until I thought to adapt the shop vac hose to the far hole, and shazam! it was clean in a jiffy. Since then, I've used it on water jackets and other situations where I need to corral dust, and it sure speeds things up! And less mouse crap dust inhaled!
I just replaced a cracked head on Edna in December. Would have been cool to upgrade to aluminum heads but I didn't have the money for it. But I found a really nice head on ebay that had been gone through. Now I have a really nice red head on the passenger side. Broke a bolt in the block which was a nightmare to get out. But all is well now.
that is a cool looking engine with that blower on top. it's a different design that will stand out in a crowd that's for sure. hard to believe they didn't clean the mating surfaces before assembly all those years ago.
Watch it Matt, don't say Accel ignition wires, there might be a law suit from somebody. I like that snorkel "ram air" breather in the rear of the engine.
Matt, since you sell on eBay and buy off of eBay, you need to see if you can find a hand held tach & dwell meter. They hook up to the battery and the side of the coil that goes to the points. That way you can set the idle on your engines correctly. Without guessing.
This motor is way too cool. As for stuck heads. Especially aluminum stuck heads. An old mechanic friend of mine, who is now long gone, used to work on prewar Rolls Royce motors. When he encountered a stuck head that hadn't been off since it left the factory he used 'clothes line rope'. Clothes lines were something that your grandmother had in the back yard. Anyway. He would feed clothesline rope into the spark plug holes in each cylinder. Once he had as much as he could get in, he then put a ratchet or breaker bar on the front of the crank, and turned the motor over. The rope would push the head up and not damage anything in the process. Looking forward to the first drive with this supercharged motor.
Today...April 7, 1947, we mourn the passing of Henry Ford...a man who brought so much innovation 💡to the world, died peacefully in his bed, with only candlelight and no electricity, the same as he came into the world, due to a power failure at his mansion Fairlane. R.I.P. HENRY!
With aluminum heads, the holes will get distorted slightly when the heads are torqued, making the holes a tiny bit smaller and making the heads harder to remove.
Nice, started easily. Needs to be in an old Hot Rod, ( on display, dressed a little old style ) and out there burning rubber!! Flathead Ford V8,s the exhaust gas goes out past the cylinders etc instead of straight out, that's why the design has some cooling issues. 21min music to my ears!
Pretty awsome man enjoy yur vids learned alot from yus guys rebuildin flatheads when we was ayonkers we was into big block fords chev n buicks well yuns have a good life later taters Rev stevie b👍
Your trying to get a feel when using the telescope gage . You need to send the gauge slightly bigger then the hole , then hold one end stationary and pull other end through it will automatically find the actual size ,then measure with micrometer.we all have made this mistake .
Packards had a similar super charger set up on their engines in the 50s always wanted to find one of those motors rebuild it drop it in a coupe total old school
One of the overheat issues was water flow is too fast to allow good heat transfer. The speed guys “in the day” drilled holes in the water pump impeller vanes to slow that down, overheat issues were over.
That was done a lot but running thermostats or just flat washers where the thermostats go is much easier. Some guys thought faster flow would run cooler but not so. The coolent has to be in the motor long enough to cool it and restriction is the way.
Glug , Glug , 😊, Glug , Glug!!! Sounds like one hard pulling pulpwood SumBitch. Imagine having this as your alarm clock, you would wake up every morning in a great mood.
Sure wish i would have saved every Flathead that i could have gotten when i was a kid. Id see scrap haulers with beat up cars , with still running engines getting hauled off. They usta be common around sawmills being used as skid powerplants. Id enjoy listening to them in a hard pull. That gurgling sound is just so mesmerizing
Nothing beats the sound of a Flathead!
Nothing like the sound of a good ole flathead Ford.
Year's ago all you could do with one of those engines was used them for scrap or as a boat anchor they we're valuable for anything else. Now their becoming a priceless item once again. I personally Love the Ole stuff, so simple and straight forward, back in the ole days just about any one was able to do work on these ole babies, they were such simple machines.
I'm friends with a Y-block and Flathead hoarder. I used to rebuild generators and starters for decades. Kind of fun. The voltage regulator settings will become a lost art.
Just about a lost art already but what was old will be new again and the knowledge may come back.
NICE!!! Another Ford flathead lives!!!!
Again, smiles say it all. Great accomplishment. What a feeling when you get a motor to run for the first time after it's been sitting for some time. Keep up the great work.
Just the look on Steve's face when the motor started for the first time, says it all. Great work guys, can't wait to see the first test drive.
Haha he was so excited!
I love flathead V8 they are the king and I'm a huge fan of the famous flathead V8.
Hey Guys shop truck coming together quite quick that engine will look so cool in the truck. 😎😎👍👍
Blowing air into the coolant passages is exactly what I did on my 26 Oakland after it had been Parked for 75 years. Made a huge difference in how clean the coolant is, and it stays nice and cool now that we got it running again.
Yep I prefer it over flushing with water or vinegar as it is all dry and flushes out rather than turning to a sludge.
@@IronTrapGarage exactly!!!
One of the best sounding V8s of all time....they had their issues but they sure did sound nice....I ve had a few of them over the years.
There's nothing that sounds as great as a flathead
That old Flathead sounds great! Should work well in the pick up. Looking forward to seeing this in the truck and heading down the road!
Flatheads Forever!
What a great video! Man, I love the way that engine sounds! It started amazingly quick too! Thank you, Matt!
We did some fiddling to get it to fire but once we got the bugs sorted out it fired up pretty quick after that!
A neighbor of mine raced flatheads on the local dirt track circuit. I ended up with a modified 37 Ford 6 window coupe. Needed an engine, so my friend tutored me in flatheads. I picked up a flathead block and assessories.It was on a bench and I was trying to remove the valve assembles out of the block with the valve pry bar . They were really stuck. One in particular I was really prying on finally broke loose, flew half way across the shop and crashed threw one of his windows. He also tutored me in window glass replacement.
Great video everytime 👍 ty Steve
Steve is quite the carb man these days, good job Steve.
He’s got the hang of it now! We just gotta get better at tuning them for high performance a little more! Lots of cars to practice on haha
It's nice when you get an engine that old & setting for so many years to fire up quite easily . That it has an old school early super charger is fantastic . I'm glad there wasn't much wrong with it , & it's going to look awesome in the shop truck ! Take care guys ! Enjoying this build like all of the rest !
Great score!!!
WOW! When that motor fired right up, a smile crossed my face from ear to ear. Kudo's to the Iron Trap Team! I know this shop truck is gonna' be a stellar Hot Rod, but a blown Flatty is going to take her to the next level!!!
Thanks for watching!
Looks like the right motor for the truck build for sure !
That is the coolest flathead v8 I've ever seen, are you kidding me!! I'm shopping for a Ford with a flathead but I doubt I'll find one that cool.
That motor is pretty dang cool.
Morning Matt & Steve!! Really appreciate your video's, I can't get out in the shop right now due to family issues, your flathead will make a awesome motor for the shop truck!! Be safe!! God Bless!!!
Thanks for watching!
it would make a good motor for the shop truck! plenty of power. hope your family situations get better. have a good day bud. :)
That's a cool old set up.
That's a sweet setup. Love the way it sounds
Good stuff! I owned a 53 Anniversary model Ford Customline (50th anniversary model) here in Australia back in the later 1960’s as a young fella an Australian produced car I loved its wonderful 239 ci sidewacker engine, One of my many cars over the years I wish I still had, always loved the flathead Fords 👍
It sounds fabulous..
That is just neat as hell... I am about 80 miles from Moultrie. I go every year...
OMG, when you were blowing air thru the block I couldn’t believe the crap flying out 😂😂.
Yea it was crazy!
Thats a fine flathead, good find ! Perfect for the truck!!!
Excited to see how the shop truck takes shape
This is the project that hot rod purists dream of that never comes to fruition. When you pulled that truck from the barn I would've never thought it would house a supercharged flathead. Especially a setup as abnormal and odd as that one. And it's going to be a shop truck. This is absolutely wild and awesome
Thanks Jake! We’re trying to make something “era correct” but still “simple”. Should stand out when done!
@@IronTrapGarage darn right it'll stand out! Don't plan on making "quickie" runs to the parts stores because people will be wondering what fer engine ya have there. Most people have never seen or heard of a McCollough blower. Just printout a paper about it and give it out, unless you want to discuss it for 20 minutes everytime you stop.☺
NOTHING sounds as sweet as a flathead....period!
Still remember in the fifties, every year we went for rides in "Dune-Scooters" on the sand dunes of west Michigan. They were all early Fords, '34, '42 and '48 flatties, wide open throttle and straight pipes...up and down the dunes we'd go, with
DC'3 airplane tires. I would look forward to those
Goosebumps every year,
and I can still hear them!
SILVER LAKE SAND DUNES!!!!!
@@Motor-City-Mike Bingo!!
Mac Woods dune rides!
Bad ass flatty
Those old flat heads sound great, nice video. thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great show today, love the sound of that motor.!
Good Morning Matt ! ! !
Bad ass! This truck will be uber cool!
I’ve loved those blowers since I first saw some on cars from back in the day in old mags about 40 years ago.
Can't wait to hear it run in the pickup after it's sorted out!
Excellent video that sounds like a good motor the finished product will be great
Ya gotta luv flatheads. The pick up will be a great match up.
It's going to be fun "running parts" in the pickup. Nice work from everyone on this start up. Keep it up as always and thanks for showing it to us. I have never been a flathead fan until finding your channel a few years ago. Out here almost all the flathead engines are useless. I heard a ratio of 1 in 10 usable blocks. The flathead I had in my '51, when I was a kid, used so much water I had to drive from gas station to gas station to get anywhere. I am warming up 'cause they look and sound cool.
Matt that ole rascal sounds good.
Great engine for the truck. It’s going to be super cool when it all comes together
Sounds very good Can’t wait to see it in the CHASSIS
Really enjoyed Steve's GOAT moment epic I'm stoked .keep up the great content
Haha he was having too much fun!
you folks havev some of the greatest subscribers..and knowledgeable...well deserved because you guys give back..do not preach or cry for money every other minute..and we all dig the eclectic vehicles you have there..
Yep we try to make money on our own without begging!
Fun watching you work on the engine. I had that engine in a 1941 Mercury, my first car. Also, ran a Stromberg, but no blower.
i have a '34 BB with original 21 stud I hope to get running soon. I dont know much about flat heads, and im hoping its not junk, its been sitting for 5+ years i was told. Turns over by hand, but I havent gotten any farther than that. Hoping to get to working on it as it warms up! Thank you for all the great videos. It keeps me dreaming about the future and kept me motivated through the winter.
like you said can't wait to see it in the truck
Ol'girl sounds good, it will look so cool in the rails of the shop truck
I love it the new power plant for the shop truck oh badass keep up the good work boys
Matt, you are hitting another home run with that roadster pickup! This is one of those projects that "nothing fancy" is gonna be so darned neat! Good luck and many thanks for all of the great fun videos of the popular rods, customs .......and flatheads! You da man! And I must add that you are such a knowledgable and talented young man in this subject! I must add also that my first job working on a flathead race motor at 11 years old was scraping the gasket and Permatex remnants off. That was when we soon learned that aluminum paint sealed great and came apart very easily. I have built lots of race motors and never had aluminum paint leak or be hard to disassemble.
Thanks for watching!
Matt great video! It’s awesome that you can get an old flathead like that and get it running that well! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Outstanding! Nice work, all! Thank you for another excellent video!
Kinda fun!
I think I would have dropped the oil pan looking for crap BEFORE I started it - but you're learning.
I loved when you both near jumped out of your skin when you lit the it first time (inside) - those old flatheads are like that, they can light quicker than you can get your hand off the switch!
It'll be interesting to see how it runs with that 'charger on it!
Have Fun!!!
I am really enjoying all of these flathead videos!
I inherited my dads '28 roadster truck with that same Mcculloch charger but in chrome. Drivetrain needs more fab but its 80% done. He has an earlier version that's the 2 piece blower but I don't believe he has the matching pully setup with it. This is a great build I will be following very closely. Thanks guys and keep up the great work.
That’s really cool! Not many of these blowers floating around!
wow, Matt, the McCulloch is great for the truck! Love it!
Wow that cool I will see i the truck
One thing that speeds up the water jacket cleanout is to put a shop vac on the larger holes to pull the debris up after you break it loose from the bottom. I've had rockers, cowls and roof bracing that had mouse nests in them, and no way to access them except for holes at either end. I was chasing mouse crap and dust back and forth with an air gun, and putting a mouse dust coating on the whole garage until I thought to adapt the shop vac hose to the far hole, and shazam! it was clean in a jiffy. Since then, I've used it on water jackets and other situations where I need to corral dust, and it sure speeds things up! And less mouse crap dust inhaled!
Great idea indeed! Thanks!
Awesome flathead Matt…odd! I like it!
Runs great..it’s going to be a badass parts runner!!
So freaking cool! Going to be a fun truck. Crazy how much crap you were getting out of the block. Have a great Sunday.
Yea I couldn’t believe it! Spent almost an entire day flushing the block out!
Way to go! That roadster project is coming together quickly!
When taking old machines apart a neat trick is to set up a hot plate under it , will come apart much easer.
I see a Rabbit hatch! Impressive the way it fired right off.
Scirocco. A friend dropped it off to fix a dent a year or two ago and I’ve gotten that far 🙃
Sounds great. A real win-win. Look forward to the next one. Be safe and stay well.
Matt the motor sounds real good, and it it works out should make for a fun to drive parts chaser
Sounds great
I just replaced a cracked head on Edna in December. Would have been cool to upgrade to aluminum heads but I didn't have the money for it. But I found a really nice head on ebay that had been gone through. Now I have a really nice red head on the passenger side. Broke a bolt in the block which was a nightmare to get out. But all is well now.
that is a cool looking engine with that blower on top. it's a different design that will stand out in a crowd that's for sure. hard to believe they didn't clean the mating surfaces before assembly all those years ago.
Looks and sounds great Matt
Haven’t watched for a while hope everyone is ok 👍👍
Very cool 😎 great tips as usual 👍
Thanks for watching!
Sounds great and looks really good with the blower. Should push that little pickup down the road. 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
Watch it Matt, don't say Accel ignition wires, there might be a law suit from somebody.
I like that snorkel "ram air" breather in the rear of the engine.
Matt, since you sell on eBay and buy off of eBay, you need to see if you can find a hand held tach & dwell meter. They hook up to the battery and the side of the coil that goes to the points. That way you can set the idle on your engines correctly. Without guessing.
This motor is way too cool. As for stuck heads. Especially aluminum stuck heads. An old mechanic friend of mine, who is now long gone, used to work on prewar Rolls Royce motors. When he encountered a stuck head that hadn't been off since it left the factory he used 'clothes line rope'. Clothes lines were something that your grandmother had in the back yard. Anyway. He would feed clothesline rope into the spark plug holes in each cylinder. Once he had as much as he could get in, he then put a ratchet or breaker bar on the front of the crank, and turned the motor over. The rope would push the head up and not damage anything in the process. Looking forward to the first drive with this supercharged motor.
I've been using cleaning vinegar to clean block and radiator for ever.
Y’all need another gauge in your panel, a cool old vacuum/pressure one for the supercharged stuff
Today...April 7, 1947, we mourn the passing of
Henry Ford...a man who brought so much innovation 💡to the world, died peacefully in his bed, with only candlelight and no electricity, the same as he came into the world, due to a power failure at his mansion
Fairlane.
R.I.P. HENRY!
Good job guys!
Great sounding flat head. Should make a great power plant for the roadster .
GOOD MORNING COOL VID THANKS FOR SHARING
Good sounding flat head .iv all ways thought thay sound different but in a good way I'm chevy guy but I do like how this is set up
Damn! It just pooped off and ran!👍🏼
I didn't see any crap fly out. I guess you mean popped.
@@tomkrisel4493 no, i meant 8t just started right up.👍🏼
With aluminum heads, the holes will get distorted slightly when the heads are torqued, making the holes a tiny bit smaller and making the heads harder to remove.
the engine sounds great!
Nice, started easily. Needs to be in an old Hot Rod, ( on display, dressed a little old style ) and out there burning rubber!! Flathead Ford V8,s the exhaust gas goes out past the cylinders etc instead of straight out, that's why the design has some cooling issues.
21min music to my ears!
I would love for you to do a video of how that super charger works. Maybe you have one and I haven't ran across it yet. Very interesting! Thanks
Pretty awsome man enjoy yur vids learned alot from yus guys rebuildin flatheads when we was ayonkers we was into big block fords chev n buicks well yuns have a good life later taters Rev stevie b👍
Your trying to get a feel when using the telescope gage . You need to send the gauge slightly bigger then the hole , then hold one end stationary and pull other end through it will automatically find the actual size ,then measure with micrometer.we all have made this mistake .
I bet you are loving the engine run cart that y'all built...sounds pretty good man.
It’s been a life saver!
Great conclusion to video well done
sounds sweet
Packards had a similar super charger set up on their engines in the 50s always wanted to find one of those motors rebuild it drop it in a coupe total old school
One of the overheat issues was water flow is too fast to allow good heat transfer. The speed guys “in the day” drilled holes in the water pump impeller vanes to slow that down, overheat issues were over.
That was done a lot but running thermostats or just flat washers where the thermostats go is much easier. Some guys thought faster flow would run cooler but not so. The coolent has to be in the motor long enough to cool it and restriction is the way.
Perfect engine for the rpu