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Originally Posted by Tim Ayers
Unless you can hear it run and check the oil pressure while running, not much. Complete cores have gone up in recent years, but I wouldn't pay more than $200 for a motor of unknown condition.
If you do pay more, insist on a money back guarantee that, if it turns out to be cracked, you'll get your money back.
If you haven't done it before, tearing down a flathead is a labor intensive job. Having some flathead specific tools helps tremendously. Sometimes it just comes down to torching, pounding, and a lot of cursing to get them apart.
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Tim nailed it. A few weeks ago I stripped 8 engines all 8BA. 4 of the 8 are scrap. 3 that looked super nice externally junk. A tremendous amount of work stripping that many engines. $200 max if they turn $100 if they don’t. The nicest had 12” cracks both sides along the oil pan rail so just removing heads is not good enough.