What's a flathead worth?

I knew a girl once with a flathead.....a great place to rest my beer.

sorry about that!

A farmer has a 49 Ford pickup with a flathead for sale. The engine turns over but I'm not interested in that. I want body parts. The truck is junk except for a couple doors and the hood and grille. I know what the parts are worth but whats the motor worth?? $100.00??

.....Rick.....

 

100-200 dollars is what I'd pay for a block that hasn't been magnafluxed but looks good. It's hard to say. The first flattie I bought ran like a champ smoked a little, had alot of the original paint on it, seemed to be in good shape. When I started to dis***emble it I found that one deck had been sleeved in all four cylinders. When I got the sleeves out (some real thick ones that I think were generally reserved for tractors) I found that one of the cylinders had a crack and hole in it and another for lack of a better word was "shattered". I could stick 3 fingers through the wall.
IMHO they are risky, I would never buy any to resell and try to make money on it, but then again I would feel real bad if I found that somebody gave me even a little hard earned cash only to find that the motor is no good.
Mike

 

That'd fetch £400 + in the UK , there are times I really wish I lived in the states

 

$100 sounds fair. When ya want me to come and get it?

 

Michael M, Why would you remove sleeves that are already installed? the idea behind a sleeve is to restore the bore so it can be used for the life of the block. They aren't something that gets replaced with every overhaul.


Frank

 

I just sold 2 competes and one apart with a offy 2 pot and a shieffer alum flywheel,and very repairable headers.to help a fellow rodder out and I got what I gave for all of it.$850.00

 

To sell one in this condition, that is unknown but turns, pull heads, manifolds, and pan. Wirebrush areas between bores and valves, turn it over a few times with light oil in bores to clean them up a little, and spray some solvent around lower waterjacket areas and areas where main webs connect to them.
Anyone willing to risk more than s**** value will want to check those valve areas for cracks and the lower jackets/main areas for freezing damage. Drop a ruler into a cylinder and measure stroke--if 3 3/4 no points, if 4" your value just rose by several hundred bucks. If trans is 3 speed, that may be worth a few bucks too.

 

We sure do get ripped off over here.

 

If it had a 4" crank I'd give your asking price and wouldn't care about thr rest of it. I've seen 4" cranks go for as high as 700.00. But I think that the going price on 'em right now is about 300.00.

Uh, I hope I didn't just ruin someones day.

If you want to know thw worth of parts'npieces, best thing you can do is watch the cl***ifieds.

 

One of those babies was loose as hell so my curiousity got the best of me. Plus I really didn't like the idea of having a sleeved engine when I was going to drop so much money into it. I know, I know it sounds **** but I get really picky when it comes to this kind of **** I gotta have everything just right. Block works well for a mockup anyway so I guess it still has some life in it.

Mike