Thought you like to know how I first started woeking on falthead engines. I was 14 and living in Vermont when my buddy and I saw a 40 ford coup sitting in a field up to its bumpers in mud. We asked the farmer if we could work on it and he said if you get it running you can have it. The motor was frozen and we started tearing it apart with the few tools we had. Took the heads off and saw the pistons were rusted to the cylinder walls. Not knowing what to do about this we preceded to find a tree limb the size of the pistons and started wacking away. It took awhile but we did free the engine up without breaking anything. Took sandpaper(no money for anything else) and sanded the cylinder walls as smooth as we could. Slapped everything back together using a adheasive for tractors, drained the fuel tank, took the carb off(stromberg?) cleaned it up and resemble it. The farmer managed to pull the car out with his tractor and he had some old tires that fit. He gave uf a 6 volt battery from his tractor and after pouring sosme gas down the carb we tried to fire it up. It took some time but it did run, just barely, no compression. We left a cloud of blue smoke,(never changed the oil, again no money) and drove it away in second gear as that was the only one working. Thats how I started my life with cars. Bart