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It's been a big job, this was a dirty engine on the inside, not a lot of wear but the scum and crud in the oil pan told the story of neglect, poor maintenance. Not much money spent here, we only did the minimum to make this thing run like new and sound good, nothing more.
New timing chain, new gaskets, new rings and a well done valve job and a new set of rod bearings, standard size. No rebore, no crank grinding, I don't intend to drive this car a hundred miles to and from work every day, I retired 16 years ago, those days are over.
It started fine, ran perfect at slow speed but we soon discovered that the vacuum advance was not working, I bought a new 'pancake' on e'Bay for 12 bucks, the listing said "fits '54 Ford" but I had my doubts, which proved to be correct, it was for the '49 - '53 Fords. Same thing and fits the distributor perfect but .... the rod tip and cotter key hole are 90 degrees off, I fixed that by cutting the rod off, turned it and welded it back together.
The trick with that is to keep sparks from going in and burning holes in the new diaphragm, small wet rags poked in prevented that, it came out fine. I also drilled the cotter key hole slightly bigger, I used a stainless steel cotter in assembly. I did this installation in the car, not easy but it can be done.
Note my "Ford Interceptor" decals, just a little way of creating conversation, anything for a laugh.
Bottom line: This engine runs like new and sounds like new, good enough for the girls I go out with, and also for the ones I don't.
Warren
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