Thread: Building a Flathead for the very first time

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Ok so I can prop the crank in the corner, good
I hafta mic the journals anyway to see if it's still serviceable Lotsa measuring to do!
So far we got two manuals from Speedway. All i'm doing this week is just the teardown and finding a machine shops that know about them blocks. Tearing into it so far it seems like somebody attempted a few repairs with too many beers in em. I found a few nuts and pieces of metal siliconed near some valve guides. And so far I found one valve froze onto a broken guide and NO I didn't break it I removed it that way.
The cam wasn't moving the fuel pump enough to work either Changing cam and bushing and pushrod and fuel pump itself.
OK say I can't find a machine shop. If that's the case I may just clean the walls and add new rings. But I hope i can do better of course.
Anyway i'm tearing into it tomorrow, interesting to see what else is broken.

Originally Posted by Good Wrench

Ok so I can prop the crank in the corner, good....

No, you can stand the crank up vertical on a sturdy, level surface if it will stand on it's own. You do NOT want to "prop it up in a corner" or it will tend to bend with gravity.