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Need help identifying ford flathead
  • RonTheDon
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
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  • RonTheDon
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Hi everyone



    I'm fresh to the forum, as well as these old engines. Have a flathead, which I think is one of the later (8BA or eqvivalent), but would like to be sure. Anyone knows this number? It's an industrial one, so havent, been able to match it anywhere...



    Thanks



    Ron
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  • Steve E.
    Posts: 520Platinum Member
    49 to 51 pickup engine-8RT. Altho the cover on the oil pump has a 51 Merc part no, this might have been the cover used from 51 up.
  • Jean Philippe LLORET
    Posts: 16Hitchhiker
    Hi,

    the cylinder heads 8RT was on Ford - Mercury trucks 1949 - 1953.

    For block identification you can go on www.vanpeltsales.com and on www.fototime.com where you got a press article "what model engine block do you have" by Jay M Temple.

    have a nice day

    Jean Phi
  • RonTheDon
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Jean Philippe LLORET wrote:
    Hi,

    the cylinder heads 8RT was on Ford - Mercury trucks 1949 - 1953.

    For block identification you can go on www.vanpeltsales.com and on www.fototime.com where you got a press article "what model engine block do you have" by Jay M Temple.

    have a nice day

    Jean Phi



    I've been on vanpelts, and can't manage to confirm identity to one hundred %. I might be stupid :confused: ... Leaning towards 52-53 because off the colour on it, but this might have been changed under the previous resto.

    I will check out the article, how ever.

    Thank you guys!
  • RonTheDon
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    BTW



    Type & Serial as you see on the plate:

    *8RNN*1001* *75701*



    If this helps for identification...



    And I wasn't able to find the article since I'm not a member... It isn't possible that you have downloaded it...



    Thanks guys!



    Ron
  • Jean Philippe LLORET
    Posts: 16Hitchhiker
    Hi

    sorry for the fototime link, i have print the article, but not save the download. i will search again.

    anyway, if you look the flathead forum, you will see my personnal thread about my flat engine. (title is : need help...... pictures joined).

    i have made the same search like you.

    on the HAMB forum, a guy say to me that the 1CM letters are for Mercury 1951 engine. you have the same letter on the oilpump plate. in his history your block had be rebuilt or repared.

    look to my thread pictures.

    i have a question: i see on your pictures, back, that you have the bellhousing & the flywheel too.

    could you please send me some pictures of this parts, cause they miss with my block and i 'm trying to find & buy them. cause i'm in France, i must buy them in USA.

    So i can't make me wrong, and before to buy, i must get the most informations on this parts to identify them.

    thanks in advance.

    i search the link for you

    sincerelly

    JPhi
  • RonTheDon
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Don't worry about the link, but would be nice if you found it.



    Here are some pictures by the way....



    One more thing. I know where you can try to shop for the parts if you want them new, I've been shopping there before. They are good people! Send me a pm if you're interrested...
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    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
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  • Tony1932
    Posts: 20Greasemonkey
    Wouldn't an "industrial" engine be the type used on generators or pumps or on other industrial applications rather than on an automobile?



    Over the years, I remember seeing generators using auto engines. In fact, I used to run a fresh water pumping station and we used a Cummins Diesel engine exactly like the kind you would find in a big rig.

    Tony1932
  • RonTheDon
    Posts: 8Hitchhiker
    Yes, you're right. I know some flatheads have been used in waterpumps f.ex. the fire dept.
  • Steve E.
    Posts: 520Platinum Member
    Also here in SoCal they were used in the citrus orchards to keep the frost off the crops. They were put on 20 ft high pedestals and had a 3 to 4 ft propeller on them to keep the wind moving.
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