[Land-speed] OT: Old Flathead Engines

John Burk joyseydevil at comcast.net
Mon Mar 15 19:13:55 MST 2010


Rich
I'm curious , what OHV head bolts to a FH6 Plymouth ?
John


> When you look at my Plymouth flathead it has the classic ten head bolts
> sealing the cylinders and another 8 bolts above the valve area. When I
> converted to OHV I just used the ten bolts around the cylinders and put 
> plugs
> in the other eight.
>
> --- On Mon, 3/15/10, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] OT: Old Flathead Engines
> To: "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:27 PM
>
>
> Another possible reason - bolts of inferior construction, compared to 
> today's
> alloys.  Back then they might stretch under load more than current head
> fasteners.
>
> mjb.
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