Calling on all Flathead Experts

Remember the long ago times on the HAMB when someone who called themselves 'Flathead Johnny', with an OT avatar, who expressed a lack of familiarity with flatheads, would have been absolutely raked over the coals before getting anything near the guidance they were seeking...?

FJ - Don't knock the HAMB here... you posted a question and got several perfectly helpful responses right off the bat... just about the best one can hope for. Take that at face value, and then take yer 1:1 beef with RICHFOX offline, lest it escalate and get this otherwise perfectly-useful thread shut down.

 

well said.

 

tried to bring it offline blake and who care the avatar i put on, its it just a picture and its actually the car I drive, no different than anyone else that puts their car up and who is knocking the HAMB???...please read the entire thread before commenting bud....by RF: "If he emails again I'll tell him he was right all along and send him a little trophy" RICHFOX brought it back online BTW isnt your post contributing the usefulness?

 

Lotsa drama from a simple question.
Sorry if someone was mean to you, but life is like that sometimes.
If you can't deal with that, perhaps there is someone on the Viper forum that knows flathead cranksafts.

 

Looks like another Turd Toss to me

What's the point of fighting. Would you guys be this aggressive face to face, knowing you might get your face ***** slapped?

Just curious....

I give this thread another 30 minutes before it self destructs....

 

(sigh)... I tried.

 

all you guys are just feeding the drama and hey at least if someone dishes it to me I dish it back...no big deal and my feeling arent hurt in fact I find I'm blowing off steam, smiling and getting a kick at how dimwitted people are....so thanks guys for making me healthier and lets all remember I was very respectful and asked a valid question until a certain someone started running there mouth

 

BTW i do want to thank the people that were actually helpful in this thread I do really appreciate it!!!

 

No problem... glad to help.

 

You have a good at***ude about getting kicked in the nuts. That gets my respect for sure. Plus your interested in Flatheads. That can't be bad, no matter how you look at at.

Good luck on your project.

 

Viper + Flathead = XF/GC or maybe **F/BGC I think it could be done.

I know, I'm just throwing gas on it. But I was thinking of a way the Viper could be HAMB friendly.

 

You seem to want to take offense at what Rich posted, but his first post gave you a very simple and quick way to answer your question.

By your own words, you know nothing about flatheads. In fact, since you had to ask the question, you obviously know little about engines. Seems to me, this method would be a great learning tool.

....or, you could just get offended, and hope someone GIVES you the answer.

 

he called me out by inferring I had no common sense and stupid, I think my response was warranted.....but at this point we are beating a dead horse, our opinions have been discussed and feel its over....and to your point you are right I know little about the specifics in engine building which is why I have taken on this project...we all at one point knew nothing about engine rebuilding so lets always keep that in our minds

 

A. Measuring the stroke with a ruler is obviously the real answer, and with a crank with no block, resting it on anything that supports it by mains off of the floor will do the job. You can make things easy with no block if you let the crank push a board up and down and mark its extremes on a wall...
B. The tricks with sludge trap sizes and counterweight sizes are extremely useful when faced with a rusted up engine or a heap of stuff at a fleamarket. Good until you miss the obvious and measure a 59A counterweight because you forgot to apply other tricks first...

 

I would have implied. You would have inferred. But then this is not an English lesson.

 

guy get over yourself....please get help, I could search your past posts and find tons of errors...everyone makes them

 

bruce thanks for the tip, the crank is resting in my oil pan....the wall suggestion is cool