Further adventures with a Ford flat head engine

[Alastair Thomas]

I am slowly making progress with the replacement engine for our F60S LAAT.
My last post on this subject was about the trauma of removing the valves. This chapter is about building engine stands and checking the block for cracks.
I have appended the story in the attached .pdf document.

Going forward I will soon be reassembling the engine. I cannot find the torque settings in my operator's manual nor in the workshop manual. Can anybody help. I particularly need the values for the big ends, the main bearings, the head nuts and the flywheel bolts.

Kind regards,
Alastair
F60S LAAT
Ford Lynx I MkIII*

[rob love]

Van Pelt sales in the US have a lot of information posted on the flatheads. Here is a link to their page for torque specs on the early engines: http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/f...ecs32-48V8.htm


They are a small husband wife organization. I like dealing with them because they have continued to stock the 3 ton suspension parts we use on our CMPs, whereas most of the big names seem to have discontinued carrying that class of truck parts, instead concentrating on the smaller more popular 1/2 and 3/4 tons.

[Lynn Eades]

Main Bearing nuts 80 to 90 ft lb
Connecting rod castellated nuts 35 to 40 ft lb
Connecting rod self locking nuts 45 to 50 ft lb
cylinder heads cast iron 50 to 55 ft lb
cylinder heads aluminium 35 to 40 ft lb
flywheel cap screws 65 to 70ft lb
fly wheel self locking screws 80 ft lb
spark plugs cast iron heads 24 to 28 ft lb
spark plugs aly heads 20 to 24 ft lb

I took this from a scientific publications workshop manual (32 to 48). I know some flat head v8s have nuts and studs on the main bearing caps while others used bolts. I cant remember if the figures are the same, so you need to investigate further. This book is good in that as a post war publication it covers well, (for examples) the carb and clutch rebuilds along with interchange of parts. etc not found in Ford publications.
I have bought parts from James Saccoccio of Gotham Auto parts in New York (00 1 718 878 3699) and have had great results from him (and also from Van Pelts)

[Alastair Thomas]

Thanks a lot guys.

I have hopes that there will be plain sailing from now on and thus no need for chapter three of my adventures.

Alastair

[Dave Newcomb]

Worth the membership $ These fellows have been all about Flatheads for 60 years! Dave

[Alastair Thomas]

I have attached an update on my adventures in rebuilding the replacement engine for our F60S LAAT.
However, I now have a real problem. The reach from the timing cover to the end of the camshaft is about 0.91 inches. This is about twice the reach of the distributor. I seem to remember reading about this on this forum some time ago but cannot find it again.
Is there an adaptor?
If not, can anybody tell me if the dog on the distributor is held on with a roll pin, taper pin or something else? Close examination has not helped me. If I can get it off, I can make a longer one.
Does the distributor that has two bolt fixing have a longer reach?
I feel thoroughly faint at the prospect of swapping camshafts as I have got this far.

Kind regards,
Alastair
F60S LAAT
Ford Lynx I MkIII*