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Bruce Lancaster · 04-13-2015, 08:23 PM

...the price of a gasket would have me pulling that head...
You'd need to pull the pan and a rod cap for meaningful search of the almost certainly false claim...he seems to be calling it an early engine with something predating the '49 merc!
It would have to be an unaltered crank in early style, one hole per throw and no cleanouts, to be anything unusual. If it has a merc crank, it is simply a normal hop-up performed after 1949, not what he seems to be claiming. I'm not saying Ford didn't do undocumented private tests of unusual experiments, but if one turns up...it needs more than unexplained mystery codes and a unique crank that so far only exists in unsupported verbiage...

04-13-2015, 08:23 PM	#13
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: Is this really true ...the price of a gasket would have me pulling that head... You'd need to pull the pan and a rod cap for meaningful search of the almost certainly false claim...he seems to be calling it an early engine with something predating the '49 merc! It would have to be an unaltered crank in early style, one hole per throw and no cleanouts, to be anything unusual. If it has a merc crank, it is simply a normal hop-up performed after 1949, not what he seems to be claiming. I'm not saying Ford didn't do undocumented private tests of unusual experiments, but if one turns up...it needs more than unexplained mystery codes and a unique crank that so far only exists in unsupported verbiage... Last edited by Bruce Lancaster; 04-13-2015 at 08:29 PM.