'37 Flathead rebuild questions

[JSeery]

Originally Posted by cretin

Yup, I've found what I need. Would have been nice if they told you that you needed that if you were putting the cam in an earlier engine.

You are going to find that when you are mixing parts between years you will have some mismatch issues that you need to research. Flathead parts interchange fairly well, but you will run into difficulties if you try to just assemble various year parts without carful researching it first. Are you using good reference material (books)? This type of information should be covered in a good flathead rebuild book (the multi year type). Some suggestions I find useful are: