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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) Today, 12:15 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I have a lot of black flathead springs, and stuff I read says isky springs were painted gray. I will, however err on the side of caution (and today's paint) and clean 'em up and use them bare. One...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) Today, 10:36 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,053
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: NP435 to flathead?

Known to be a very reliable and well built transmission. I stumbled on some reading the other day about T-19, T-18 and the NP 435. Appears all 3 are interchangeable across the board with no...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) Today, 08:35 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Hi Mark, you make a very good point here. There are two reasons I thought I might paint them, but only after a surgical cleaning and 'grit etching'. 1) I recalled this passage in the lower right...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) Yesterday, 10:40 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Won't get any kind of a storm OR argument from me :) ...The ones I pulled looked like they had machine marks on the bottom, like they were ground flat. Now these are hollow adjustables, both sets...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) Yesterday, 10:12 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I heated up an old set of dividers and curled the legs outwards and ground them flat and thin for the purpose. I'm a certain kind of perfectionist. I use unconventional methods, but I still like to...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-26-2024, 09:56 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Plenty busy with my day job today, but after dinner I got a chance to make a light spring setup and get some measurements I can work with. What I found is that even though I have fewer of the short...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-26-2024, 02:35 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 430
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: Change from 16 inch wheels to 15 inch wheels

When a person switches to 15s it is sort of natural to go to a more modern profile. That means lower and wider, and the trend continues today with some outlandish examples. Now when you look at the...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-26-2024, 12:43 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

OK, thanks! I knew I was doing something wrong. The whole 'installed height' thing hase confused me and then there is 'open' and 'closed' too. I sould have paid more attention to 'Bored and Stroked',...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-26-2024, 06:20 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 447
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: What gears in a stock '48 F1 with 9" rearend?

As Tubman mentioned, tire diameter has a lot to do with the equation. There is a formula where you plug in your tire dia and axle ratio and use some fairly simple math and it gives you your rpms at...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-26-2024, 06:06 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 346
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 40-41 pickup bed

Although I cannot help you with your needed dimensions, as a woodworker since 1971, and I'm here to say that's some darn good work you are doing. I had no idea all that was going on under those...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-26-2024, 12:17 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I got a little time to run a test. Bear with me here, The plastic tube is an 'airborne' cold tablet container, cut to 2 1/8" inside height.The od fits the brake cup the ID fits a spring. Neither is...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-25-2024, 11:32 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Now I'm really confused...???
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-25-2024, 10:23 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Thank you for all this info. This afternoon I decided to put some of this new knowledge to use and so I found an unused wheel cylinder in a box on a shelf. I took it apart and drilled and tapped the...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-25-2024, 08:33 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I have a lot of springs here. My gut feeling is to test and use these tried and true US made Ford springs. To know the 'installed length' do I have to install them or is there a generaly agreed upon...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-25-2024, 07:29 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Aw shucks Skip, It's just Pete and his jumbo photographs. That little spring compressor fits in the palm of my hand and the vise has 4" jaws. Not big as vices go.
In my searching about the 8rt...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-24-2024, 11:26 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I'm hoping with the RT truck designation it will be right for the type of power I am looking for. The fact that it's Ford and it's New is a step in the right direction. Here's a pic of my KR Wilson...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-24-2024, 07:30 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I bought some pistons in cosmoline about ten years ago and had the devil's time getting it off until I set tfhem on a moderately warm woodstove. It wiped off with a rag and wd 40. And I agree about...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-24-2024, 01:24 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Thanks for the good word! Been looking at valves, guides, springs etc. Lots to pick from. Looks like the shorter springs, about 1/4" shorter are for valves using rotaters? Been breaking assemblies...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-24-2024, 12:28 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Thanks Ron, I dug out a couple sets of those from my stack last winter. I set aside the best looking pair on a dedicated shelf where I have been stockpiling everything I need for this engine. It's...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-24-2024, 12:04 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

I now see that someone got the last one of those cosmoline coated camshafts this morning. Oh wait, it was me, earlier today. And flatjack, I don't know if it has '8RT' markings on the camshaft...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-23-2024, 09:33 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Wow Pete! You make me look like a photographer. And Mark, yes I was born in Seattle soon after my YANKEE parents moved there from SE Massachusetts, leaving behind many generations of Sissons. My dad...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-23-2024, 06:51 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

And I watch my oil pressure like a hawk. Ask my kids... On long driving vacations (every family car we owned had high mileage), my mood would revolve around the oil pressure I was seeing on the...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-23-2024, 05:43 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Thank you Rick, I will certainly do that. Once again 'Offshore' parts, rear their ugly heads. Les has a sign in the shop that says they will only build with parts sold by the 'Carquest' store out...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-23-2024, 01:41 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

Thanks, I'm still a bit up in the air about lifters. I have 2 complete sets of old Johnsons. One from a cracked block tear down and one set from a swap meet. I ended up with 2 of the same sioux valve...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-22-2024, 09:55 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 2,821
Posted By GB SISSON
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts

'Repair Manual'
'Ford and Mercury V8 Engines 78-81A-59A series
1937 to 1948 Pass. Cars
1937 to 1947 Trucks' 3666-48D

Printed June 18. 1948 by Ford Motor Company, lists the fits and...
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