Technical Chrysler Industrial Engines

guys i'm looking for info on chrysler industrial flathead engines. I have one in my 1960 Yale forklift and looking for info and a spare distributor, thanks!

 

go to p15-d24.com, plenty of info and knowledge on the Chrysler Flathead 6s on there.
BTW, what info are you looking for?
Try this , http://www.t137.com/registry/help/otherengines/otherengines.php

 

The flathead 6 you have was the same as the passenger car model. Any earlier Chrysler flattie bits will fit. We used to have them in aircraft tugs, forklifts, etc right up to the '80's.

 

When we ran 137 Cockshutt combines we bought up every '57-up Mopar 6 we could find. They had the big cube engine that bolted right in.

 

looking for spare distributor i can convert to electronic 12v negative ground. my lift sits and i'm going to update with alternator since generator is bad and voltage regulators go bad from sitting. thanks!

 

i compared a 57 plymouth distributor i had and it was different.

 

i'm a old time mopar guy that cut his teeth on a 1936 plymouth back in 1976! the positive ground stuff got real exciting the first time i tried to jump it!

 

12 volt negative ground, well get a battery, and genny 1956 and later, and the starter motor too, if you can or modern alternator.
The dizzy, well what are you converting there, just use your 6 volt coil, with a ballast resistor inline, or a 12 volt coil with internal resister and hook up that coil as per 12 volt set-up, or a 12 Pertronix conversion.Or better yet a slant 6 dizzy with electronic ignition, that one requires some minor changes on the distributor shaft to fit your engine

 

i have some life truck converted to electronic ignition, i wish i would stayed with points the electronic modules go back often.

 

Points are simple and cheap enough to keep extra parts. Heck converting one of these dizzies to dual points is not that difficult either...

 

call vintage power wagon in iowa. they have a incredible stash of parts for the six cld mopar. i used one of their elect. conversion kits and had no problems after tens of thousands of miles.

 

The dizzy conversion is covered here:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/mopar-flathead-6-distributor-upgrade-48-desoto.653565/

 

thanks! sounds like you can combine slant 6 and 318 distributor parts to make conversion!

 

any pictures of the conversion? how much?

 

looked on engine and it's a model 30 serial number 234432, any way to tell year of engine? a manual/copy would be great.

 

I will have to dig but I think I have a shop manual, I lost some of my stash during Hurricane Rita. I'll have to look. If I have it I will message You.

 

thanks!

 

anyone else?

 

I HAVE A 58 YALE AND HAVE NEVER HAD PROBLEMS. JUST WENT TO NAPA AUTO PARTS TO GET POINTS, CAP CONDENSER PLUGS WIRES ETC.

 

There is a small Auto museum between Monticello Minn. and the twin cities that has a display of 5 Chrysler flathead six cylinder motors configured around a central crank shaft system to form
single drive unit for a WWII tank engine. The only one I have ever scene, I thought it was
pretty cool.

 

Do any of you know if a resistor is required for a early 50's Dodge engine with the 6 volt coil?

 

Is your early 50s Dodge still 6 volt positive ground? If yes then you do not require a ballast resistor for your coil. If you have converted to 12 volts negative ground, I highly recommend you have a ballast resistor for your 6 volt coil, and that you change the polarity on the coil too, meaning swap the wire from dizzy to - side of the coil and your power to the positive side of the coil, this is for 12 volt negative ground..

 

is your engine the model 30? need tune up part numbers, mostly rotor thanks!

 

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