Need HELP: flywheel for a Mercury flathead 1CM 1951

Hi, i recently buy this Mercury( truck or car?) flathead engine 1CM 1951 in France (Le Mans town).
For my hot rod plan i want adapt a T5 manual gearbox.
actually i try to find the flywheel, the bell housing & the clutch which are missed. but at the end of the crankshaft is fixed this metallic plate. I do not know for what it serves: belonged it to an automatic clutch of origin?
it can come out.
is what I can fix the flywheel directly on this clamp?
i join 4 pictures of my engine.
Can i adapt a 8BA Ford 40 - 48 or 49-53 on my engine (i think it must have 120 teeth?)
thanks in advance for your answer and to help me to find technical drawings or pictures of the original adaptation and for my future adaptation plan.
sincerelly.
Jean Phi

 

i cant see your pics as im at my work computer. is it a tin disk? if so, its the crankshaft dowel pin retainer. you can use any 49-53 flywheel that is drilled for a 10 inch pressureplate. you will need to make a pilot bearing with a smaller i.d. to fit the t5 input shaft. you also need to find a cast iron truck or steel car bellhousing to go between the engine and t5 adaptor. make sure you get the starter mounting plate with the bellhousing as its useless without it. hope this helps some.

 

What you show is the plate for the torque converter for the auto trans it came with. If you need a flywheel, contact Flat-O-Products in Oregon, as he has new alum. flywheels & can probably set you up with all the parts you need to install the trans you want.

 

There should be plenty of flywheels over on your side of the pond, any 8BA ('48-'53) unit will work. Throw away that flexplate.

 

Hi
thanks all of you for your help.
Have anyone a picture of the original auto trans that was adapted on this engine (Ford 8BA or Mercury)? and how is fix the auto trans on the flexplate?
i don't find technical drawing with this flexplate on the web or in technical motorbooks in France.
thanks in advance
sincerelly

 

The original Fordomatic torque converter had the ring gear for starter attached; it was a take-apart design that could be serviced internally. It just bolted to that plate. I owned one for about 10 minutes a couple of years ago--bought engine from a junked '51 Ford, they pulled it out with trans. I didn't examine the trans much...I noted it was extremely large and heavy and covered with filth, so I unbolted it and tiptoed away from the mess.
The trans is related to some later versions of Fordo, and I remember long ago one of the magazines described attaching a 1960's Ford automatic of some sort to a flathead using a mixture of 1951 and later pieces. Not worth it--this is a heavy lump that absorbs a lot of the engine's output.
By the way, your crankshaft has an extra hole in the back center, where you see a bit of white in the picture, to accept a pilot on the torque converter...this does not affect using with other flathead transmissions.
I might actually have a Ford of Belgium service manual in French for the Fordo...have a set of booklets covering shoebox Ford service. At least they're not in Walloon...