Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Today, 02:49 PM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Dale, the reason I'd use the worst one is that the oil must become quite laden with grit from the stones. I have taken the bottom plates off the 5 pumps and graded them with a 1 through 5 star rating...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Today, 10:59 AM
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Re: dragging out a Deuce
That is just tooo cool! Thanks for posting. Did you buy this? If so, what are your plans moving forward?
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Today, 10:23 AM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Thanks for these details. Sounds perfect to me! Both pressure and volume. Tempted to use the worst one in the sump of my sioux valve surfacer as it's stock pump and a submersible electric pump that...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Today, 10:17 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Today, 09:44 AM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Dang, you made my morning! As fate would have it, I have two lock plates here. Maybe I can find tabs that haven't been used yet. Or maybe treat the metal with heat like annealing or something. I know...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Yesterday, 11:55 PM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Denny I suppose with digging up 5 pumps, I'm doing this primarily to decide which of the five might be best and also to rule out any poor performer. Should know more tomorrow. In searches about oil...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Yesterday, 08:19 PM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
This is the mockup for my oil pump tester. Went to napa for 4" of 1.5" hydraulic hose but they only had coolant hose. The 12 point socket drives the gear nicely with no chatter, slip or damage. I...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Yesterday, 03:21 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Yesterday, 09:07 AM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
I plan to call Mac Van Pelt about such things today as I also have questions for
shouldered cam gear bolts etc.. Woke up at 4 am so decided to get this party started. Now I have the rings and...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
Yesterday, 06:36 AM
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Re: Trip to the nationals in the 34
As always I'm having a blast riding along with you. Thank you so much for the armchair travels and the photos to go along with the story. I really admire those of you that take long trips in your old...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-09-2024, 11:32 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-09-2024, 08:02 PM
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Re: VE Day May 8th 1945
19Fordy's opening statement could not be more true. And I was of the understanding that we kinda looked the other way and let the Russians get there first so as to deliver some good old fashioned...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-09-2024, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 227
Views: 15,237
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Flat washers it is then. If the 2 thin headed bolts are shorter, I will skip the washers on them. I'm considering a set of 'store bought' ball bearing water pumps. It appears I will need 'big bore'...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-09-2024, 12:03 AM
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Replies: 227
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
In 50+ years of fixing mechanical things I have seen more broken lockwashers than I can recall. That's why I brought this up, For the record I just went down to look again at what is on my project...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 227
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
There is a lot of negative comments in forums about split lockwashers on main bearing caps and other highly torqued critical fastenings. It does seem apparent that for the majority of 8ba engines...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 07:20 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 07:17 PM
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Re: Timing gear sheared 12 teeth
Looks like you're in a tough spot here. Specially with the summer driving season beckoning. I like your idea of 'pinning up the valves', easy enough, but getting the lifters outa the way, what about...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 227
Views: 15,237
Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Got 9 more doors assembled and day ain't over yet. AND that includes the 25 mile round trip to town when I realized it was the 8th of the month. Gotta pay lumberyard bill by the 8th to get the...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 11:33 AM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Tim, there are very knowledgeble flathead builders in both camps here. Aftermarket or stock distributor with stock carb/cam and large displacement. Since I'm cheap and it's a really easy thing to...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 11:15 AM
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Re: oil pump gear
Funny, I'm not the guy to answer that because I was gonna ask the same thing about my new engine with it's T-5. All at once or seperate? Of course the pick point for the chain will depend on that...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 227
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
I think I was pretty much just having fun thinking about the manual advance. I'm a serial tinkerer and sometimes I don't know when to quit. My plan is to go with the cast iron distributor, get a new...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-08-2024, 12:08 AM
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Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
Thank you Mark. I'll make up a list tonight! And an advance/retard lever off the distributor body linked to a quadrent on the coulmn? Can't be any harder to make up than the string operated, spring...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-07-2024, 02:18 PM
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Re: 1936 Exhaust manifold sealer
I would suggest you look into Remflex compressible manifold gaskets. I have bought multiple sets for flathead V8. They are good for a couple thousand degrees and squish to fill gaps in such things as...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-07-2024, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 428
Re: oil pump gear
Here's a gear I rejected on my current build. With a tape measure I find the gear is about 7/16" across the teeth and so is the offset. But my block with ny good gear installed is 3' away, so it's...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
05-07-2024, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 428
Re: oil pump gear
Or just an 1/8" strip on the edge of each gear is engaged, and you're on borrowed time. Easy to make a new gasket if required. And I guess of course you need to get behind the flywheel and that's a...
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