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ESVADuke

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does it hit an old engine?

This looks like a Chrysler flat head 6?
Could have been ? combine, pump, truck, car?
Anybody recognize it?
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No but if you park any equipment in the fence row you will have a trees growing up threw them and and fork around them.
 
The motor is in the Chrysler family all right. Probably a Dodge or PLymouth. Chrysler cars may have had the 6 in early years, but later most had the
flat head 8. Not a ford flat head. Not sure what motor farm machinery used. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 06:32:08 04/05/21) does it hit an old engine?
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There appears to be a "velocity governor" installed on the carburetor mounting studs.

If that is true it would point to the engine being from a truck or other "commercial vehicle" rather than from a car or piece of farm machinery.

Some special-purpose cars or taxis may have been equipped with the previously mentioned governor.
 

Ha ha. I never cared for them much, but my Dad always said their engines were good, but the car bodies were garbage (!). Knew a buddy with a slant six that would not die, his car was ugly as sin, but that motor never quit.
 

Chrysler flathead six and they used a ton of them in the Massey and Cockshutt combines back in the late 40s through 50s. This one appears to have the downdraft carburetor so its not likely not from a combine. Dodge trucks and cars had them through the 40s and 50s as well. They had a good reputation.
 
those were also used in old generators and pumps for Army use during WWII. I have one here that was a surplus fire pump. It doesn't have
the silver paint, though. :) Maybe that is a clue to where it came from??
 
Chief ..... I had a 51 Chrysler Windsor, it had a flathead 6 in it with the fluid drive tranny, sort of a semi-automatic. Cost me $115 in 1966, I still have the bill of sale but a 57 Chevy wrote me off in an intersection argument in '68. My fault in the accident too, never saw him coming.
 

So does the engine still sound like a tin can when starting even though there is no tin can body around it?
 
I got over 225000 on a slant(lazy) 6 until the transmission quit. Engine still going great. joe
 
I will get corrected as I am quite limited in my knowledge. I'm going to say a flat head six and in that time period known as a Chrysler Crown. It's in a 47 dodge 2 ton
in the shed waiting and waiting and waiting for restoration. I think it was in a life boat I bought and lived on in the mid 70's on Vancouver Island, came off the Empress
of Japan I was told, the boat that is. I was told the boat was 75 years old at that time. Saltwater cooled, it wasn't expected to run much.
 

Chrysler never built a flathead 8. 2 versions of the 6. The one in the combines and tractors were about 2 inches longer than the car/truck ones.
 
(quoted from post at 17:41:55 04/05/21)
So does the engine still sound like a tin can when starting even though there is no tin can body around it?
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Gonna have to explain yourself a bit on that one.
 
those had a wide variety of applications. trucks, cars, combines, tractors, and even welders might have used them.
 
the one i have in my minneapolis 4292 combine has the 265 cid flathead. the combine is 1970 ,so that means these engines were in production late. the other 235 cid flathead that was in the massey 82 was shorter, and the super 92 had the 265 also. need more room for larger pistons. the massey had the updraft carb , while the minnie had the down draft carb on the same engine.
 
(quoted from post at 07:55:06 04/06/21) the massey had the updraft carb , while the minnie had the down draft carb on the same engine.
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Yes, once Cockshutt went to putting the engine up top I guess they went with the down draft carburetor. Prior to that there would not have been room under the grain pan for a downdraft carburetor sitting on top of that flathead. It was a miserable enough job just removing spark plugs on them with the limited clearance between head and grain pan.
 
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