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04-19-2015, 12:44 AM | #1 |
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Don't throw anything away
All you guys that keep pondering what to do with [you think!] fatally cracked blocks need to read this link fully. Amazing, but these guys are correct in their assumptions.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages...tml?1429413314
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04-19-2015, 06:07 AM | #2 |
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Re: Don't throw anything away
I completely agree. Save everything you can. No telling what technology will be available in the future to repair parts that don't seem worth repairing today.
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04-19-2015, 06:39 AM | #3 |
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Re: Don't throw anything away
While I agree that technology is make more things possible the skills that were used to repair that block and others with less damage are sadly being rapidly lost
This has become a throw away world where most young guys have no idea that thing were once repairable Do not wait get parts repaired now while the guys with the skills are still around |
04-19-2015, 07:12 AM | #4 |
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My Expression is Any thing is REPAIRABLE / REBUILDABLE if you Have deep enough pockets
The real question is: Is it cost effective --- Yes I agree DON'T throw any thing away / my 5 trailers full show how strongly I believe that . lol / lol |
04-19-2015, 11:39 PM | #5 |
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Exactly what i have said for years now.
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04-20-2015, 01:33 PM | #6 |
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On saving old flatheads: Look around. More new crank assemblies, more suppliers of internals and externals, repros or re-issues of more and more speed equipment, are popping up all over. We are in a golden age...EXCEPT for blocks. There are initiatives, but so far no one has come out with a mail order new block for us, and the one that seems (and has seemed for a decade or more) to be closest to actually arriving also promises to be insanely expensive. We are now re-finding blocks that someone else discarded or passed over for good reasons years ago, and dragging lumps out of ditches and fields, naturally meaning that a high percentage are cracked. Blocks are the shortage now. Fixing a few cracks is likely to start sounding cheap real soon... |
04-20-2015, 01:54 PM | #7 |
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When the current generation passes, I wonder how many good blocks will "come out of the woodwork"? I'm just a neophyte at this, but I have three spares (two complete engines and a good block). Also, I'm not even primarily a flathead guy like most of you. My interests run from early hemi's to Corvettes and points beyond. I'll bet there are guys out there that have dozens of them stashed away that they will never use.
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04-20-2015, 02:13 PM | #8 |
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You make me think of a guy I met, Riverside area (I think), that has maybe 50-75 bare blocks, mostly 59A's, all stored indoors, neatly arranged racks, catagorized & a notebook of notes on each one, bore size, any mods, etc.
I was looking for a builder-block, so I looked. I could have a choice of any - 5 bills each, and no promises, no guarantees. I passed. The guy is older than me, meaning at least early 80's. I wonder what will become of them. What I've seen more than once, family has no knowledge or interest, someone cleans house, they go on a trailer or truck-load, and go by the pound for scrap. Not very long ago, one of my friends passed, the crew came, loaded about 5 trailers with T, A, and early V8 stuff, and took it to the local metal dealer. It hurts... JMO |
04-20-2015, 07:31 PM | #9 |
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There is a shop in Ohio called Zakiras that resurrects and remake Frank Miller race cars. What they make out of bits and pieces is amazing ....
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04-21-2015, 03:26 PM | #10 |
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I know that most of the repies were from Down under from NorthAmerica. Does anyone in the US or Canada know of a shop that can do such repairs. A friend has a 1911 Overland engine that needs that type of repair. Any leads appreciated. Byron W.
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04-21-2015, 05:43 PM | #12 |
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It is a whole lot more fun GIVING something away that will eventually get fixed & used than to throw it away and it's lost forever.
Just gave away some parts last night that had been on my shelf for several years. You'd a thought that I had given him a pot of gold!
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