Veemoney
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Nice truck. It has some add-ons but looks like it is not to far from stock and they are pretty kool stock. You may find you will enjoy it more and not need the IFS if you include a set of radial tires in your plans, It improves the ride immensely. Tune it up and get used to shifting the trans and I bet you will be happy. another thing to plan is to check your compression and vacuum once you get it home and then you can decide what to do if anything to the motor. I have a 47 WC, Good Luck
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Can't figure it out myself. Reaching out for help
Veemoney replied to tom'sB2B's topic in Mopar Flathead Truck Forum
In the pictures I see your motor has what looks like a rebuilders tag under by the serial number stamp. It is a good idea when you are cleaning the tops of the piston to note if the pistons are stamped oversized for example say .030" might be on the top of the piston and if it agrees with the rebuilder tag. Good to know for future reference just to make a note of it somewhere. You could also mic the cylinder bore to figure out what kind of wear you have if you wanted to take it a step further as long as you have it open. -
Chasing down the numbers provided above helped me to locate the head gasket number with the smaller configuration that better fit my head. For those interested you can find the gasket using: Fel-Pro 7547 Fel-Pro 7547C Victor 1066S Wizard R6057 These numbers are applicable for 1949-59 motors based on what I found
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Just a thought if you are not the original owner and have not validated the motor numbers. You should confirm the year of the motor. My 47 truck has a 53 car block with a 57 head on it from what I can tell. I did make a hand crank to turn the motor from the front through the hole access in grill. Not sure if your car has access to the front hub to allow this but if so it works slick.
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Thanks to all for the responses so far. SSER2 you are correct the new gasket is the Fel-Pro 7564C (universal). My head is casting 1676337-1 which I understood was a decent compression head from 57-59 based on other posts and I had shaved it .070 back a few years ago. With the old gasket it was running 135 psi which is lower than I would have thought. Thanks for the info now I have some numbers to chase down.
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I noticed the replacement gasket from Fel-Pro is larger than the existing gasket on my 230 engine. You can see this in the picture where I have the new gasket on top of the old gasket and head. The area by the exhaust is better covered by the old gasket and I was hoping someone may know the brand/number of the older gasket that best fits my head. Did not want to give up any compression
