Folks Of Interest ...like a hole in my head... 52 Chevy

You're Right! Memory isn't what it used to be!

 

Good luck with your '52! Hope to see more update pics!!

 

Yes, updates will be coming!
I pretty much*****oned up the engine after work this week. Today I‘m gonna give it a coat of fresh paint and finish****embling. The engine had been run without the bypass oil filter, and with everything being brand new now, I‘d certainly like to add at least the bypass system. We will see if I can come up with a stock unit or maybe something I can adapt. A bit of filtration would be better than none I guess

 

A few parts and a bit of paint make me the engine builder that I ain‘t …
at least there was something good in the newspaper today…

 

Awesome

 

I wonder if an oil spinner wouldn’t do a better job of filtering the oil instead of the old bypass system?

 

I don‘t know what an oil spinner is.The bypass system I have on my 55 Chevy seems to be doing quite a good job . For the last 80k miles or so I‘ve been running 15w40 oil in it, with changes every 4-5000 miles, that´s at about the time I notice that the oil becomes darker on the dipstick.
I ´ve found an old flathead oil filter canister in my pile of parts, Jay gave it to me when I got his 40 Ford. It was a little gummed up and rusty, but it´s perfect for what I intend to do. I drilled off the flathead mount and made a little bracket that bolts to the manifold. I good cleaning and a little paint make me the fabricator I ain´t. Must be true if it rhymes, hahahaha

 

Next step: finding a biga$$ shoehorn …

 

Guys, I need to pick your brains here. As you know I got the 52 with the engine out of the car and disassembled. Now I´m trying to figure out how the motor mounts got back together. The front mounts look like they need to be stacked. Is that so? I tried to find photod on the internet , but couldn´t find any.... thanks in advance!

 

Thank you for sharing pictures of your car and engine build . I’m enjoying the pictures of your shop . The brick floor is great

 

If I remember correctly that top piece sits on top of the block side motor mount bracket and goes through it

 

If I recall my ‘59 pu (as mentioned) had a metal mount on the block. The two piece of round rubber. Like metal washer on one side of each, then a double thread rod that separated the two by 3-4 inches. The rod must have had “nubs” for a lack of a better term. The nubs is what separated the rubber. I think it went through the crossmember and bolted from the bottom, the top the same way to the mount on the block, but bolted with the rubber on the bottom side.
Now a car could be different, Not sure.

 

Something like this

 

Saturday night I put the engine back in the car, all fit well, it went down like fat kid on a water slide. I finally figured out the motor mounts as you can tell.

 

I see I'm not the only one that leaves the hood on while engine swapping a 49-54 Chevy lol