MTFCA Forum

Dan McEachern

What year is your car? It makes a big difference in what's "original".

Dan McEachern

The head gasket adds volume to the combustion chamber and needs to be accounted for in any CR calculations. A 3.875 bore overhead gasket is about 0.73 cubic inches, while a stock flathead gasket is pretty close to 1.09 cubic inches.
for conversion 1 cubic inch = 16.39cc

Dan McEachern

Ha! when did we start being concerned about "low end efficiency" with any of this?
My comments regarding port flow were directed at your earlier statement, not anything to do with resulting performance. You can't change the fact that more air = more fuel = more power.

You said:

Dan McEachern

I have flow data on a B/BB Rajo and the intake port flow curve continues to rise even after about .500 lift. Those heads will flow an insane amount. If you compare B/BB Rajo flow data to just about any other era head, most intake port flow curves flatten out at higher lifts as would be expected. I'm...

Dan McEachern

Who spotted the two Storm connecting rod boring machines in one of the pictures?

Dan McEachern

1st off, there is no one in Santa Rosa that I would let weld on that head, nuf said on that. My opinion only. Seats are bad mojo in those heads due to the thin area between the valves as you noted I think I would 1st try just grinding the seat and see where you end up- not ideal and the seat will be...

Dan McEachern

The driven gear bore per the Ford drawing is 1.651"/1.652"

Dan McEachern

If you find your brake drum shaft is worn, I make driven gears with undersize bores that allow use of slightly worn shafts.

Dan McEachern

Also, notice the edges of the drums are sharp from wear. If you are going to run Kevlar lining, the edges of the drums need to be chamfered and polished as well, in addition to no big pits or excessive roughness on the drum surfaces.

Dan McEachern

The pins are not tapered. The bore is not tapered. The book is correct in that the pins must be pushed out toward the magnet side of the flywheel. There is no counterbore in the flywheel to accommodate the slight shoulder on the end of the pin. The pin gets driven in or pressed in until the shoulder...

Dan McEachern

That looks like a reasonably terrible rebabbit job.

Dan McEachern

Suzanne- contact Moose Motors in Pengrove- they have stock of old woven lining and can reline your bands.

Dan McEachern

Call Birdhaven. Bill sold his brake business to Texas T Parts and that all got sold to Birdhaven several years ago.

Dan McEachern

Have you tried calling Best Gasket?

Dan McEachern

Bumping to the top - see my edited posting above. Thanks, Dave!

Dan McEachern

Still have a dial phone in my shop in one area. My daughters friends just stare at it.

Dan McEachern

A few additional comments on this. if you purchased pins with no end shoulder, send them back for a refund! They are simply not made correctly. On edit: I just had an interesting conversation with Dave from Chaffin's on this subject, and one of the things we discussed was the end shoulder. Chaffin's...

Dan McEachern

pretty much, except it was Land Louse virus instead of Model T virus. The little buggers are kinda cute, but not my cup of tea.

Dan McEachern

True, but we had a family member with a sickness similar to the model t ailment. Guess what it was?

Dan McEachern

I replied to your e-mail. Check your spam folder.
Dan

Dan McEachern

Yup- Exacto knife.

Dan McEachern

Contact Terry Loftus at terry_loftusATcoxDOTnet.

Dan McEachern

The pins without the "additional Collar" referred to above by Altair are aftermarket pins not made to the Ford design. The purpose of that "collar" or slight step at the crankshaft side of the pin is to trap the pin between the flywheel body and the magnets.

Dan McEachern

I have Needle Bearing Triple Gears back in stock for those of you that might be interested. Sets include new gears with bearings installed, thrust washers and mating special pins in your choice of press fit sizes. Please e-mail me thru the forum if you have interest. or dmcgearsatyahoodotcom. Remove...

Dan McEachern

I have drums, backing plates and small parts in my pile somewhere. I would have to dig them out. Send me an email thru the forum .

Dan McEachern

I don't want to turn this into a Calistoga saga, but regarding Wayne's comments above, yes indeed, the 1st picture is from the 1st year and the 2nd picture is from year 2. In the 1st picture, as Wayne said, that is Dave Moulton in the Testa Rosa #3, and the red car behind Test Rosa is Doug Abernathy...

Dan McEachern

I really like the solder idea versus the RTV. The glyptol may get a little toasted, but why not just sand off any questionable areas and recoat it after the solder is applied? If you don't want to solder it, I would prefer to use JB weld and file it flat rather than rely on the RTV.

Dan McEachern

I have a large amount of NOS KRW A and V-8 tools and the red rustoleum is pretty darn close to the KRW red. Some T era KRW tools are also green, at least my magneto gap tool is green, and its never been repainted.

Dan McEachern

Our local bakery had a bread loaf slicing machine that used a T crankshaft and 4 connecting rods to provide the up and down motion to the slicing knives.

Dan McEachern

Kerry- pretty sure those ports are too big for the Langs valve.

Dan McEachern

You can't put A guides in a T block- too large a diameter and A valves are way too long for a T block. You don't need to put hard seats in either. Look at using small block Chevy valves- Regular size intakes and use FI exhaust valve if your exhaust seats have been enlarged. Chevy valves have 11/32" ...

Dan McEachern

Jerry- send me an e-mail. dmcgears@yahoo.com

Dan McEachern

Here is a shot of the rear wheel that Wayne is referring to in his posting above. The Wine Country Classics were just that- classic.

Dan McEachern

Seems Hank knows that girls rock! Be careful- next you know you won't be driving it anymore! Ask me how I know. "Ah dad- you can drive the touring".

And here is a picture of Andy's dads car with only 3 wheels.

Dan McEachern

Hi Steve- yes, the one and only! And I'm about 90% certain that is Tom Rohner standing next to the car talking to me. That is his AAA service cycle to the left. Tom is our own Bay Bridge Sue's father AFAIK.

Dan McEachern

Here is #45 when it was baby blue #00 back around 1975 or 1976 at Calistoga Speedway lining up for the Wine Country Classics.

And an action shot later in the day.

Dan McEachern

Tighten the lockbolt then apply a firm rap to the end of the main shaft using a brass drift or a large soft face hammer until you can slide a .015 feeler between the thrust washers. Don't have the main shaft flange bolted to the flywheel when you do this

Dan McEachern

Rumor has it there is now a green one down in Watsonville that looks about like Andy's.

Dan McEachern

Hi Steve- e-mail sent. Dan

Dan McEachern

A few comments- you never said if you got the engine warm enough to retorque the head gasket. If not, there might have been anything wrong other than the lack of retorquing the head a few times after heat cycling. On your upper end oiling issue- it might be the pictures, but I see no evidence of any...

Dan McEachern

Richard- bolting on the driven plate will do nothing to stop the man shaft flange from flopping around in the flywheel.

Dan McEachern

It appears the transmission / flywheel is not bolted to a crankshaft. If so, there is nothing holding the trans main shaft in alignment and positioned properly with the flywheel, so yes it normal.

Dan McEachern

Seriously consider staggering them, with the passenger seat somewhat behind the driver seat. Comments regarding tipping them back are also critical. Best way is to put some padding in them- just some foam sheet and mock them up and sit in the car- can you reach the pedals, how is the reach to the st...

Dan McEachern

Here is #45.

Dan McEachern

I would love to get some of that paint, but its restricted in California- go figure!!

Dan McEachern

Donnie- is there a mag field ring in this engine? If not, and there are no bolts in he lower corners, often times these holes broke thru the front side of the casting, right in the corner where the hogs head meets the block. Often times just a small hole, and not a problem if a mag field is installe...

Dan McEachern

Most flywheel grinding machines do not have magnetic chucks- they use a center bolt and a centering cone to hold the flywheel to the grinder table. Just pointing out that a commonly available service of automotive machines shops is flywheel resurfacing, where as most automotive machines shops probab...

Dan McEachern

Most automotive machine shops have flywheel grinders that would make short work of kissing the top of the magnet clamps but they would not be able to grind the mounting flange because they can't get down into the 4" dia counterbore. The interrupted cut in the lathe is never a problem because the cut...

Dan McEachern

Terry's posting highlights the importance of getting the magnet clamp heights all the same. IF you have the ability or access, another method that takes this to the next level is to roughly set the height, then chuck the entire flywheel in a lathe, indicate the rim of the flywheel and face off the m...

Dan McEachern

Russ Furstnow can make you a really nice sewn leather fan belt of the length you need,

Dan McEachern

Put a few squirts of engine oil in the cylinders so that the rings can seal. What is the condition of the valves? Low compression may not be due to the rings. Have you confirmed your valve lash? Good luck.

Dan McEachern

Biggest problem with old shells is that the partng line where they are split is often times badly worn, rendering the od of the shell into an oval shape. There is no way to repair this, so good cores for rebabbiting can be scarce. As far aw removing the cam shaft from the threads above, rotate the c...

Dan McEachern

https://www.completeautomobilist.com/pr ... model-502s

Dan McEachern

Did you call Chaffins?

Dan McEachern

Scott is correct- Chaffins is staying open with Mark as the head cheese.

Dan McEachern

AN fittings use a 37 degree flare as the sealing surface and were developed during WW2 as an Army-Navy (AN) spec for aircraft use. Swagelok tube fittings use a 2 piece ferrule similar to a commercial compression fitting but are manufactured to a much higher quality level, and are generally available...

Dan McEachern

1967. '24 Roadster. Sold it when I was in high school and bought it back 10 years later. Still have it.

My daughter and I plan to put a SOHC SR Fronty engine in it. Gonna make a gow job out of it.

Dan McEachern

A different outside view. Did this one a few years ago. All stainless- the Swageloc guy loved me!

Dan McEachern

It might be a good idea to think about what the tips of those screws would do to the rim of a cam gear over time.

Dan McEachern

AFAIK they worked with a stock gasket. Any indication that the head has been modified around the valve area? If so, you can modify a copper sandwich gasket by opening up the flanged sheet gently, removing the filler material and then forming the flange back with a tiny hammer. This is much easier on...

Dan McEachern

Some 16 Valve Roof heads used a similar arrangement on the pushrods although not that elegant.

Dan McEachern

Do you mean turtledeck or?

Dan McEachern

Kevin- there is a real straight forward tool in SW to transfer a picture image into a sketch. Happy to share if you want it. Dan

Dan McEachern

I think Ron got it correct. The trajectory of a loose fan blade would be slighty upward from that side. Probably no hood, as its doubtful a blade would penetrate a hood panel and still have enough energy to pierce the fender skirt.

Dan McEachern

Anton- no one makes new intake/exhaust gaskets for that Rajo head. Simply reuse the old one with some high temperature RTV around the port openings. If you need a new one, your only option will be to cut one from hi temperature gasket material. McMaster-Carr offers some Kevlar material that works qu...

Dan McEachern

New coil is best but. . . . clean the coil of all grease and crud and if a single coil is loose, or the insulation totally gone, 5 minute epoxy works well with a coat of Glyptal over it. Grainger has spray cans of insulating epoxy and so does Amazon- one brand that I use is SPRAYON and it was about ...

Dan McEachern

Just to clarify one point in Scott's post above. The pins I provide with my needle bearing triple gear conversion can not be replaced with an aftermarket replacement pin or a Ford original pin. My pins are ground to a +/- 0.0002" tolerance based on a size the bearing manufacturer recommends. This si...

Dan McEachern

Eric is correct- it's not "early"- just for a TT truck.

Dan McEachern

.679 is the official Ford stock size. IF they were reasonable snug coming out and your new ones go in with some effort, you should be ok. From my experience .0015/.0020 " interference is just about perfect.

Dan McEachern

Very very nice!!

Dan McEachern

You probably have no choice, but resealing the manifold gasket should not be an issue. Some hi temp RTV will seal it. Since MOST of the clamp pressure to seal the cylinder bores is done by the two rows of bolts directly adjacent to the cylinders, retorque those for sure if you don't want to pull the...

Dan McEachern

Eric's advice is pretty much spot on the money. Studs are nice, but you need to have sufficient fire wall clearance to get the head on and off and that might not be possible in this case looking at the picture. You really need to measure your head for the correct length studs as some heads have been...

Dan McEachern

Check that your keys have not moved up the axle and wedging the hub, keeping it from seating properly on the taper. A good trick is to use superglue to hold the keys where they belong when you slide the hubs on.

Dan McEachern

AFAIK, general convention is that the #1 exhaust lobe should point toward the timing mark on the cam gear. This is just a convention, similar to the conrod pinch bolt being on the cam side of the engine. Both have no effect on how the engine runs. And no, I don't remember if this is in any Ford serv...

Dan McEachern

If all you are doing is setting valve lash, it should not matter a bit where you do it as long as the follower is on the base circle of the cam. If you are getting variation in your lash settings, the only thing that will cause that is base circle run out. You don't state how much variation you are ...

Dan McEachern

Camber is the amount of king pin inclination when viewed from the front or rear of the car. That 1" value you refer to is dependent on how you measure it, tire diameter etc. The OP was asking about toe in and tire wear. And to answer his question, yes, that much toe- in will wear out tires very quic...

Dan McEachern

NIce job and it looks great. Just a warning, if the duckie is at all heavy, vibration from running may fatigue crack the radiator neck joint, so be aware.

Dan McEachern

The Nissan twin spark fires two standard 12 volt ignition coils. Modifying the distributor body is about the same amount of work as making the 009 body fit in a Bosch front plate. You do need reverse rotation gears, but I know a guy that makes those.

Dan McEachern

Pretty sure Glen stated the sale would end on April 1st.

"Well the cat seems to be out of the bag. I hadn't intended to post this until April 1st. But continue to enjoy our sale until then. As for the foreign customer who posted, we sell all over the world, no problem. All you need is a credit card"

Dan McEachern

Bakersfield is, by far my favorite swap meet of the year, because we get to see so many old friends in addition to meeting and talking to customers. In addition, I've been thinning the herd a little and collecting items to bring to Bakersfield over the last several months. I'm hoping that Gary is co...

Dan McEachern

The official name for the "stability disc is "Tool Holder Assembly" and the current part number was TA-950. The old part number for this was TA-B1130A. As you probably know its serves two purposes- 1) a stabilizer for the facing tool and 2) a tool extension for large bores that were past the range o...

Dan McEachern

Here is one for sale:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tobin-Arp-faci ... Swd7RdN2EH

Dan McEachern

A waste of good cast iron. Too bad!

Dan McEachern

Original Larry Smith side curtains and fender skirts!

Dan McEachern

My boot has common sense fasteners at the end of the straps that attach to the underside of the body wood where the rear cushion tapers down. My straps have no adjustment and the boot is pretty secure even when trailering. When its cold, attaching the straps can be somewhat of a chore to get attache...

Dan McEachern

Stan- the Breeze looks great! Dan

Dan McEachern

This is much better than the paper version and its still available!

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9925&p=74130&hilit= ... ARD#p74130

Dan McEachern

I've been using this for 30 years and have found nothing better. Sealed Power Assy Lube

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/SLP-55-400

Dan McEachern

Just finished a small batch of crank shaft timing gears with undersize bores. I made a few different sizes, so if you have a crankshaft with a slightly undersize snout and you want to salvage it, this is your chance. I've had various request over the years for these and finally made some, as I was r...

Dan McEachern

Hank- those look like Ford 6 cyl to me????

Dan McEachern

Looks like they may have adapted the back end of an A/B rear main to the rear main area of a T block. Al Usalanghi of Long Beach hill climb fame grafted the rear main seal area of an A block onto the rear main of a T block and put an A rear main cap on it to run it as a dry clutch. This was about 19...

Dan McEachern

Here are a few more pictures.

Dan McEachern

Ok- here are a few pictures of my seal setup- pretty much self explanatory. The last picture shows the extended crank flange necessary to position the flywheel properly. The flywheel in this engine is a lightened model A with a V-8 pressure plate. Crank is model A with a full length rear main. I'll ...

Dan McEachern

The A/B cam crank center distance is 4.156/4.157".

Dan McEachern

Shane- -check your e-mail. Dan

Dan McEachern

Don't use a brake rod- it will buckle when shifting into high. Order one from Chaffins if you want the original 2 piece style.

Dan McEachern

Here is a picture of the Rim nuts that we just completed a batch of. I have to thank Larry for the loan of his original.

Dan McEachern

I have several unrestored coilboxes that I have been taking to swap meets for sale. Depending on the year you have, I might have a starting point for you. From bare boxes to complete needing a rebuild. send me an e-mail if interested. dmcgearsatyahoodotcom.

Dan McEachern

1/8" compression rings and 3/16" oil rings is a pretty common ring package for T replacement pistons.

Dan McEachern

That's not a Ruckstell ring and pinion- those were a 13 tooth pinion running against a 40 tooth ring gear. What you have is a 3:1 ring and pinion manufactured for and sold by Mark Auto. Most T parts dealers had these available in their calalogs, but they came from Mark Auto. The FM/circle mark indic...

Search found 318 matches