24 stud flathead

[Jonnyenglish]

Originally Posted by scooder

Where abouts are you in England? There is a bunch of this stuff over here, just gotta know where to look mate, that engine may yield a good crank and block. I've stripped stuff that looked like that, it takes time and patience, most often it's the crank, rods, maybe cam and if lucky the block. Of this stuff, rods cranks and cams are findable over here for not a lot (used one's, so would need checking/resizing) cams easy, cranks fairly easy.
So with that stuff available, I'd pretty much do as Ron said. You can gas axe the valves and springs to get um out. Hole saw the pistons, but use a very short drill in the arbour, so you don't drill into the small end of the rod. Get under and remove all the caps you can get at and smack the broken (cus you just bored a hole in it) piston and Rod out. You can then fiddle fart the remaining rods out as you may be able to turn the crank enough.
Or gas axe the last ones and now the crank will come out.
Smack the tappets up away from the cam, then fight the cam out.
Just giving you an idea of what's ahead.
if your over on the east side, Bob Froch is your man. He will have all you kneed, may have a good 24 stud block, 21 stud blocks easy he has a bunch usually.
I'll pm his number if you want.
Martin.

Oh bugger! I've just remembered I was supposed to dig out an oil pump for a chap, had to clear my in box, can't remember his name.
If your reading this, bung me a pm re the pump please.
unless Bob sorted you out.
Martin.

Thanks Martin, im on the south coast, il google Bob and find his number, It would be good to be able to salvage some of it and make some progress on a tight budget. And i dont know where to start looking so hopefully Bob will be a useful contact. Thanks