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Originally Posted by pistonbroke
I found it cheaper and esier just to have my 53 merc borg and beck flywheel redriled for the correct clutch in my 41, As for your rattel ,your wrench guy should have seen wear marks on the flywheel bolts and the springs in the disk if that was the problem. There would be an odd wear paterns on the presureplat fingers if that were a problem. I hope this is not your problem but I have a old 390 in my F100 that has a worn out thrust bearing on the crank and on cold days it makes the same noise at the same time you are describing. Its been that way for over twenty years and never changes. Like you I thought it was clutch related at first. Tim
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This reminds me of a problem that I ran into a while ago. I had a noise in my '51 Ford I couldn't track down. I tried everything and couldn't find it. I initially thought it was a throwout bearing, because it went away when I depressed the clutch. I pulled the engine and replaced it with a Mercury I had. I had to swap oil pans, and when I cleaned out the Ford pan, I found a chunk of the thrust surface of the rear main in the bottom of the pan. It was about an inch long. I initially didn't know what it was, but when I compared it to a new rear main bearing I had, it was dimensionally the same. I don't know if it was the actual cause of the noise, but I am going to replace the rear main on the Ford engine and see. (The engine was in good shape otherwise.)