[Flathead Fever]

I have a 51 Merc motor I was going to put into a '32 Ford. I started on it and got sidetracked, like everything else around here. I used the truck pumps; the pulleys stick out farther, so the belt clears the distributor, but they still have the same mounting pads as the earlier pumps do and they use a wide belt. I'm pretty sure I bought them new from Airtex, it's been a long time. I was going to use a '49 crankshaft pulley with the outer pulley ground off, leaving just the one wide pulley groove that matched up with the truck pumps left. The 8BA generator and fan will be further forward than they are on the 59A. For the generator (if I remember correctly) I had a spare one from a 12V 57 T-bird that had two different alignment dowel holes in the side of the case, I don't even think it even uses those holes in '57. One of those dowel holes fit the late model generator mount and the pulley line up with my truck pumps. I changed the rear generator cover to a '53 late model flathead with the bearing instead of the bushing, this also got rid of the t-bird mounting bracket at the rear. Then I ground off the mounting bracket on the front of the generator so it would fit into the 8BA flathead mount. When I was done, I had a 12V generator that looked like it came that way. I "think" I also changed the pulley on the '57 T-Bird generator to a wide belt pulley with the holes for a generator mounted fan. The engine is on the stand and needs to be finished along with a thousand other projects.