51 Mercury Mordoor Freshening

This is just so awesome to see. This is the type of cool four door that deserves what ever you ask for it when ever you sell it. Its is mistake free sytling with perfect execution. I feel like taking a match to my merc! LOL

 

Your doing a great job, keep it up!

 

We were ready to send the car to the painter. But first we wanted to get the Ol' Merc running. We knew it would be easier to move around if it could run. We finished wiring the engine, made and installed the fuel lines, filled the engine and transmission with oil, and started to fill the radiator with coolant, when the unexpected happened........



All the plumbing and wiring has been completed.







...... the coolant started pouring out of the p***enger side exhaust manifold. We had a leak. The engine had been magnafluxed and had come back ok. The billet crank and main bearing caps had been installed as had the forged h-beam rods and forged pistons. Everything should have been ready to go, but now we have a leak. What could have gone wrong you ask? We were about to find out.

I decided it was time to order that flathead block pressure tester from Speedway Motors. It arrived within 2 days. We installed the tester as outlined in the directions, and what did we find? Not a thing. Pressure held steady and did not drop. Then we filled the motor with water and guess what? It started leaking again. We ran our boroscope through all the p***ages and could find nothing to indicate where the leak came from.

The decision was made to send the original block from the car and the new motor down to the engine shop when we discovered where the leak was coming from. Water was leaking through one of the threaded holes in the block into the middle exhaust port on the p***enger side. Unfortunately, magnafluxing would not discover this problem. Only a combination of water and pressure testing would detect it.

Live and learn folks. Don't just ***ume magnafluxing the block will detect all potential problems! If you are going to be playing with a lot of flatheads, spend the $249.95 for the block pressure tester from Speedway. This would have saved a lot of time and expense!!!

 

We sent the car minus the engine and transmission to the painter on May 7th. We were advised he would need it for 6 weeks. He'd better hurry as he's going to end up having my custom 51 Mercury Coupe within 3-4 weeks and that car has to be at the Detroit Autorama next March. Here's the link to the coupe build;

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345525

In the meantime we'll get the engine in order and have it ready for when the car comes back. We have plenty of other work at JDH Rod & Custom to keep us busy until then. Next up I'll post the pictures of the 40 Ford Pickup build we're doing, along with some other goodies.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the painter will be taking lots of photos of the work in progress as he preps and paints the mordoor. I'll post them as soon as I have them.

 

great build thread

 

amen...

 

I have just stumbled across this Thread regarding your rebuild,, and I am very impressed,, You have a fan here in Australia who cant wait to see the next instalment of pics and rebuild info,, keep up the good work,,

 

how's things going... was getting right into the story and ****... no more updates.

 

Im very interested in this thread...I have the same car in the very same condition...

 

Ya past due for an update on this one!

 

Great car, thanks for all the pictures.

 

Very Kool project, this is the first time that I've seen this thread. This is one of
the best post that I've seen in a while. An update would be real kool....

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

hows the car coming along would love to see an update

 

Cool beans man, lot of work.

 

Great build....Looking forward to more updates.

 

Wow,looks like a real nice car,love what you're doin with it.I also can't wait for more updates!!!

 

your car n motor = CLEAN... nice work! That visor is growing on me, and i dig the diamond panels for the firewall.

 

great work .also great photo collection of progress keep it up.