Tell me you're a hack without telling me you're a hack. Look at the top of the stud. It has a flat profile for installation. Put a wrench on your nut and a metric adjustable on the flat. They don't need to be crazy tight.

That's really nifty idea. The home made forge is working as it should. The mouse tail piece you ended up with is very cool. The camera batteries are usually the fault of the camera freezing. I find that I have to take the battery out and then restart the camera many times during filming. GoPro shouldn't release cameras that do that without knocking the price down. This video didn't show up until today. Again, really good idea to be able to forge things at home with simple tools. The anvil is a great possession to have as well. Take care

Freezing shed & mickey mouse wiring on tires . Praying for you! May the fire gods leave you alone ! Yikes! Ken. Building flat heads 50 + years .

10 years later and this video is still a great help. I'm festering a plow truck from Vail colorado, been at it piece by piece for 5 yrs or so. It's great to be able to rewatch this video to reassemble the body on to the frame. Putting on new mounts to replace the Hockey pucks. Previous owner used tire treads for the transmission mount.. they sure knew how to make due with what was available. Thank you.

10,000 TIMES thank you. From Ghana West Africa.

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Just bought a set of Monroe Matic, and one of the two is one inch shorter than the other one, and for some reason, it's leaking oil. I just paid 57 bucks a piece for these things. Shame on Monroe. Their quality over the years has gone to crap.

IT'S ALIVE ! IT'S ALIVE !!👹👺👺👹 Points and condenser, huh. They worked for many years and there's nothing wrong with them. Sometimes they need a clean-up or light filing to bring them back.The carb cleanup and boil was the ticket. Usually, old gas makes a mess of things when they sit around. I have this same engine on an old Makita generator that was given to me. I haven't had a chance to tear into it yet but it will be an upcoming video over the winter. Still adding the odd thing to a box that will go out next week---just hard to pick certain items considering the weight of everything to ship. Just tossed in a couple of tool bits for the lathe that are brand new...and some other surprises. Still working at it every time I think of something that will fit in the box. What will you run with the Robin engine?

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There is nothing like the sound of a flathead V8. My great uncle Arthur had a 51 Ford Victoria that he he owned a gas station and used to drive it to work every morning and I remember hearing it and I was at my great grandparents. He lived next door and he would go by the house in the morning and again at night and of all the cars that went by. I always knew that one it had a special sound this was in the late '60s early '70s and they weren't that many flatheads on the road anymore

I always find that too....when the gas runs out the damn engine stops. The old gal sounds good and it runs smooth. That grill design is monster! Right in time for Halloween. You'll get 'er done right eventually. The cracked lifter valley will probably hold. If not just put some Barrs Leak Stop in the coolant or the new product by Blue Devil-really good stuff. I'm still up here , mashing fingers in the yard in Quebec. I had an oil issue on a friend's car last week and made a video. You should check it out to weigh-in on what you think happened. Take care man.

Build the Wall. Build the Wall! Now you can make anything you want. A cement mixer is a time (and a back) saver! All the best. Hope you are well!

Do you know where to find a schematic diagram or operation manual for this amplifier? Web searching only finds the TPU 100B manual, and that amplifier is different. I need to discover the values of the big filter capacitors in the power supply. One has failed and its markings are not legible. Are both of them the same? I thank you for any information you can give.

Thanks for the vid amigo

Just went through this and I still have very little brake until hill brake clicks.... New cables, shoes, and springs...cleaned drums up... only other option is new drums maybe mine are worn to far...but the adjuster should make up for that....ugh

I was wondering what you were doing there at first!! 😀

Aw, Come On ! Why does everybody want to hack it & go Fast ? Doesn't anybody want to just CRUISE ...

There’s nothing like a flathead.

Man that’s incredible. What’s your plan?

That's as good as it gets! It's running well and what makes me think you've got it this time is that when you step on it and it returns to a smooth idle afterwards and doesn't hunt or stumble....well, that's the whole package..It couldn't be expected to do more. Now just to hook up the nitrous oxide bottles and this is your new drag racer!

Carburetors can be a pain! They are simple enough in principle, but one little bit of dirt in a jet and you can chase a bad idle (or other performance issues) all over the map. The ether and propane idea is one I've used too. I have a piece of vacuum hose on a 1 pound propane bottle and I search all over the engine with propane for a change of revs, but you've already done this. I wonder is some other type of carburetor would work on this? Perhaps just some sort of modification to the base plate and you can try another one on there. Maybe run an ad looking for donor carbs and see what bites. You never know what kind of treasure is just collecting dust in some old timer's garage. Heading EAST again soon. Maybe some more sugar pies coming your way later in the year.

Great work...a lot of comments on here---I can't improve on the advice already given. Carburetors are really fussy! A little junk in a jet and the whole thing runs like sh*T. A small vacuum leak and they'll make the engine lope and lack power. The oil bath restiction may be it. Like the guy suggested, try restricting the intake at the top to simulate the restriction that would normally be created by air being pulled through the oil bath, and you may have it. Nothing like tearing the carb down again and going through everything with a tiny pin or wire to clean it out. Install a fuel filter right at the carb inlet and try premium gas. If all this fails, Fire the engine up and head the rig for the nearest cliff and put a rock on the gas pedal, them slam it in gear with a stick through the window. Many of my vehicles have smartened up when I prepared them for the cliff test! LOL

I missed this one. Very cool. I never would have guessed that you were making a plate tamper. I was wondering at first if you were repairing the motor....until you ripped the guts out of it--Nope....not repairing it......salvaging copper----yes but not the primary objective....., them you put the armature back inside....really had me wondering, then the box steel-thing really had me us at night wondering and then POW!!-plate tamper. Well done, man. And the wheels----too cool very good video and the tunes went right along with it.

it's not necessarily control, the corporations sure, they want to ensure their future profits, legally a corporation is like a person, a "legal person", and people want to ensure their survival... that's understandable... government has for mandate, by the people who form it, want it, to control certain things, and you live in the woods, in MN, there's 3M people outside my doorstep here downtown, most people don't want to think for themselves, they don't want to fix their cars, they don't even want to own a car, i'll leave alone what they want, that's their business, and it doesn't concern me, but essentially the government has to cater to the mass, and there's a bit of corruption in there, or a lot, depending where you are, officials taking money to let corporations have more of their way than they should, but most people don't see a problem with their lives, it's a stark minority, you, me, very minority... i think what you, and i, i guess, but i don't care what they do, i just want to be left alone, what you're experiencing is simply to be part of a minority where most things aren't made with you in mind... those people are fully conscious of what's going on around them, the system they're in, how it works, the stakes, the fragile, uncertain future it has... most Americans are happy of the armed forces we have, i'm in Canada, but i'm not from here, hoping to escape asap, but those people like the army not to defend their houses, and businesses, but to know that tomorrow they'll be able to dream of taking a loan on a new car... it's not a lie, it really is their dream, that system is what they built for themselves, we're just different... we think different, we feel different... we are different... they might complain, they love to take things out of proportions, and be the victims of their own lives, rather than the hero that takes charge of it, you're fine in the woods, not bothering anyone... they love attention! your neighbor that passed in his blue truck? either it's a cabin, or he lives there to be able to say "i live isolated", and get attention for "being isolated", i kid you not... they are like that... they will put themselves into situations they they don't like, but that allows them to talk about it, and then get attention because of it... they vie on fucking attention! it's absolutely insane! they are completely crazy, but we're crazy to them... so it's just different ways of thinking, different lifestyle, different dreams, etc... those people need no saving, they are where they want to be... i need saving because they're trying to grab a hold of me, and even if their own laws say otherwise, they think they can harass me into joining them, or whatever it is they want... possibly just petty revenge for having been caught doing something wrong, or whatever... who knows, i don't care, just want them to go away, but i digress... they just live like that because they want to... and if you lived downtown like i do... you wouldn't want those people with you, doing what you do... you'd want them as far away as possible from you as you can... what they really need is a way to know who to leave alone with their bs, so that people who don't want anything to do with them, or their bs, they leave alone... it's because most people are so stupid, i can't stress this enough... most people are so stupid, and gullible, and willing to follow anyone, for any reason, first of you don't want to have to think for anyone else, second, they live in a system that's too complex for them to understand... we understand what's around us, they don't... they can't take anything at all apart, and back together... they have to protect those people, and i guess us from them, but they, themselves, exploit them for taxes, so they imagine someone else wants a cut of the pie, they just protect those people, it's their job... but you might think other people have the same intellectual capacities you do, or that with a bit a training they can do it, or that they are anything at all like yourself, but you are probably wrong... don't know you that well, but they are incapable of independent thought in the current world, it's too complex for them, they have to follow... they have to... they cannot do what we do... they are dangerously stupid... behind your back those people are talking about you, and whatever it is they imagine, they believe... sure in the US it's more common people who will go check for themselves, have their doubts, but it's probably the same up to a certain point... you cannot make those people you, you cannot save them, they don't want to be saved, they cannot function in the wild, they will forever be dependent on you to give them the answers, i don't know why you care, i don't, never did, but you might've not had a big city, or a lot of people before you like me, and i just know they're different, i'm fine on my own, i don't seek them at all, but the bits that they manage to force through into my life despite my best efforts, they are horrible, and incredibly stupid, and there's no way in hell i would ever want to do anything for them, but i understand if you care, you see people who look like you, heading towards what you perceive as danger, and you try to warn them, but though you might hope there's other people like you out there, they're probably not it... i just see people doing what they want, and if they have the capacities for independent thought, or the desire to be independent, they neither need me, and they wouldn't be there in the first place... if someone wants something from me, they can ask, i might accept, and they can pay, but nobody pays me to care for them, and i don't think i would do it even if the money was good because i have better things to do with my time... so yes, i agree that money is difficult to come by, especially without having to entangle yourself in their bs... it's not like it used to be where you could give things for a price, and that was that, and the end of it, ... there's more, and more strings, but you really shouldn't care, or blame yourself for their fate... imo, anyway... from where i stand, in a big city, those people are where they want to be, they are where their path has led them, they are there of their own freedom, and the result of their own actions, and they have the means to understand what they're in well enough to agree, or disagree with it... the rest is just their behavior, culture, social demeanors, and what i call the "dog phenomenon", i once lived with a dog, and the dog thought i was a dog, and it made sense, all the dog knows is being a dog... it made sense it thought i was a dog, it was treating me like it knew, so people treat other people thinking other people are like them because it's all they know... even i fall prey to that sometimes, i make assumptions of certain people closer to me that are based onto myself rather than what i was able to observe, or know first hand... anyway, i needed to talk... i don't have a lot of people to talk to around here about those things, but this is getting long, and i don't want to take too much of your time, if you're even still reading... but thanks for listening if you are, i really do appreciate...

credit is the new economy, it's called "deposit currency", there was the gold standard, then there's was fiat money, today it's deposit currency... it's because money is digital, there's no more control over printed money, they count it, but it's an afterthought... so the banks, your bank, my bank, they put a certain amount with the central bank, and then they can loan 10 times that to whoever as a number in their computers, in exchange for realities, collateral, whatnot, insurance that that virtual number equates to something real, but bottom line, the central banks own everything via the consumer banks because the way it works these days is that you put up what you've paid for for more credit to keep going... with inflation, and whatever else, mechanisms to ensure that that scheme keeps going forward... ... meanwhile, all the people retiring today, they don't have enough money for their retirement even though they were promised they would, and whatever investments they put into society, they never see anything back, and by then they're too old, too uncertain of their understanding of things to really do anything about it... it's a horrible, horrible system... something happened to me because of the powers that be, they imagined i would side with them for whatever delusions they may have had, and i hope i get enough out of that to be out of their bs for good... we can meet at the cash register again like it's always been before, and remain polite, and civil, and go our separate ways otherwise, and never bother each other again... hopefully... i have better things to do with my time than those people for sure... wish me luck..! like luck with that, and luck in general, as opposed to someone pulling strings, or organizing things behind my back without my knowledge, or consent... i don't care what they do as long as it doesn't affect me, and i want no part of me in what they do, and i don't mind going away, just up to them to apologize like the decent people they claim to be, and stay out of my way afterwards... hopefully that happens...

no problems running the diesel in the mountain, in the summer, at night, things like that..? mine was turbo, but as soon as i took a little altitude, in some holes, and at night, was definitely a difference... sounds like it runs okay, though, but there's no leaves...

body is pretty nice on the MKII...

"don't let the bastards get you down" thanks.. ☺️

is that your starter not pulling back fast enough..? also maybe it's just asking too much from that old thing that's been modified several times, who knows what's happened to it..? there's always ways to move forward, and look at it more later... looks like that thing has more important work to be done on it besides fiddling with the idle at this point...

i understand how it would bother you, though, and i see how on an automatic, it sounds pretty bad, and i see where you'd like to have it, but i don't know how to do that...

i heard engines idle like that before... not sure what's doing that, but the sound isn't unfamiliar on running cars on the street...

Wasn't the carb a mess when you started this? How well did you go through it? Just a thought ...

Sounds nice. If you're having to choke it each time and having idle probs, maybe check for vacuum leak . I heard you can use raw propane around the carb base and listen for rpm change. And the spark click noise is probably coming up that tach lead near the plastic body camera.

If you bottom out the idle mixture screw(s) and it still runs then its pulling fuel from another circuit or an internal leak. If you back the idle speed screw out does it die? It should, and if it doesn't then you have a fuel leak AND an air leak. Assuming it does die then turn the idle speed screw just enough to make it idle (1-2 turns). You may even need more base timing to get it to idle nice with minimal idle speed screw opening. Re-check the idle mixture screws with the idle speed screw as far in as it can be to still run to see if they affect the idle. If they do, then the throttle blade was too far open, likely needed from not enough timing, and it was pulling fuel from the transition circuit. If they still do nothing the problem is an internal leak in the carb. Good luck.

Some engines use manifold vacuum to advance the timing at idle. You stated that you disconnected yours because it doesn’t work right. I would try advancing your initial timing a bit to see if it helps the idle.

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It's possible for a factory cam to be re-ground into decently radical profiles. I've had factory cams reground into thumpers. I don't think that's what is happening here though, but just letting you know it's possible.

That carb is made for an oil bath air filter which is pretty restrictive at idle which is what your hand choke was simulating so I'd put a filter on and see if that helps.

Either cam timing or ignition timing sounds off to me.

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Advance the timing a bit, and get the idle circuit working properly. That engine is running on the run circuit.

If the ignition timing is too low it will cause one to cut up like that at idle. Seems as though the throttle response was a bit slow and that may be another indication the ignition timing is low. I'd use a little carb spray to check for vacuum leaks. Something that old could have a worn throttle shaft. That will show up when you restrict the air horn of the carburetor and the idle speed increases. These old engines are a blast to work on but a guy can sure open up a can of worms.

How would you know if the motor rebuild was good if you don’t check the compression.. doesn’t run smooth tho never know what it is carbs suck they have too many issues but sounds normal for a vehicle that year

shit's old. The cam is probly just be worn out! The metal wasn't as good, neither was the design, or oil, and it was probly a teenagers beeter, at some point. pull the head & measure lift. It ain't hard to do that. i probly wouldn't even measure them, with numbers, just compare them to each other.

Put the air cleaner on

It seems like it's too lean especially at idle. I don't think the problem is with the cam, I think the problem is either a vacuum leak somewhere for the carb is too lean especially at idle.

its a ground cam.its got either an air leak.or the jets need to be bigger.spray a mix of water and dish wash liquid around carb and inlet and you will hear and see if its got air leak.if that checks out make sure carb was no crap in it.if that's ok richen jets by 3 numbers higher.its either one or the other.this should make cam run smoother.

Did you replace your filter for your Hydraulics.