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Originally Posted by 62pan
Thanks, that's the information I was looking for.
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Here are some photos. I was putting this one away and I noticed there are right and left spacers The angled cuts are just in the opposite directions. The motor mount bolt holes are offset a little towards the long angle cut and the bottom stud is centered. There is a second larger holes in the top that I don't have clue about. I should have taken a photo of the inside opening measurement too. It's close to 1.250" in case you're going to use something to heat that 3" wide plate and bend it around. That bottom stud is probably splined and was pressed it there before the metal was bent. I don't which one is right or left and which way they face or exactly sure which flatheads with which water pumps people use them on when installing them in '33-'34 Fords and maybe others. I haven't gotten that far on my '33 and '34 pickup projects yet. My dad just said he needed them on the '33 pickup which he never finished. just collected parts for it.
You definitely do not need the spacers on a '32 Ford with a later flathead, 59A or 8BA. A lot of people weld the water pump motor mount type brackets flush with the top of the frame rail on a '32. That is too high, and the back of the intake will hit the firewall. I use the forged stock '32 mounts since they bolt to all the other flatheads except for just one block I saw that was never tapped and drilled. With my luck that would be the block I bought. I wonder if all the later engines were intended to be replacements for the '32s. One person said those mount holes were used to hold the block during the machine and assembly process. if that was true, how did they machine the block I saw without the holes. A friend of mine had it, it was one of those 1937 21-stud blocks with the 24 stud style heads and water pumps and no '32 motor mount holes. If you're building a '32 with a flathead and '39 trans and welding side mounts to the frame do not permanently attach the mounts without the block in the frame with a trans bolted to the K-member, the intake on it and the firewall in place You will see those water pump motor mounts arms need to be lower than the top of the frame rail. Just guessing I'd say around a 1/2". I bought a chopped 3-wiondow 30-years ago that a "professional" hot rod shop had started on. They welded the mounts flush with the top of the frame and then the firewall hit the intake. They had the firewall all scribbled with a sharpie marker where they were going to torch it out. The 1932 came with a flathead, the intakes are all exactly in the same place from 1932-1953. Think about it guy, why would you need to torch the firewall for the intake to clear. I was new to flatheads. I called the shop up that had been paid to do the work. They had been only installing Chebbys in Early Fords. I asked the guy, why did you weld the mounts flush thinking he knew something I didn't. He said, "we looked in a magazine with a '32 with a flathead and that was what it looked like they did."
I tell car people, you can work on your cars yourself and screw this stuff up for free, there is no reason to pay somebody to screw it up for you. I should probably put that on a T-shirt
Always assemble the chassis without painting, chroming and welding anything until you know it all is going to work.