Re: OT flathead fords

Posted by wdTom on February 14, 2007 at 17:29:13 from (155.212.222.143):

In Reply to: OT flathead fords posted by ken in texas on February 13, 2007 at 20:36:43:

I never did much work on one, however I did run them a bit. There were two 49 ford trucks on the farm where I worked as a kid. One was an F5, the other a F6. Both had flatheads. Over the several years I worked there one was replaced by a mercury engine, a little bigger I understand. The other ran for several years with little or no oil pressure when the oil was warm and had a knock too but it kept going. Understand there were two of us teenage kids running they trucks all summer getting in hay from all over, we put a bit of time on them. And you could go and get lime or fertilyzer which would load them down pretty good. Usually 5 or 6 tons. One time I went to get bulk lime and said to the guy loading it " I would like about 6 tons" thinking he ought to know how much of a pile in the truck body that would look like. Well after a while the pile was looking pretty big so I said "maybe we ought to drive over to the scale", turns out there was 9 tons on that F6. And it did it, about 25 miles back to the farm. Not too fast on the hills, but it did it, low oil pressure and all. They didn't have as much power as the GMC straight 6 in the dump truck we had there, but they seemed reliable and stood up to a lot of work.

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