I hate when.......

gwstang

Well-known Member
...the flywheel comes off and lands on my air hose and pokes a hole in it! :evil: Why didn't ya'll tell me that thing was so heavy? I am use to the flexplate on an automatic...lol. Light by comparison. Any way, it is safely on the engine stand for now. Next is disassembly. I am surprised how heavy that little 4 cylinder from the 8N weighs. :shock: They sure 'nough made things solid from real steel back then :eek:
 
"I am surprised how heavy that little 4 cylinder
from the 8N weighs"

On my last rebuild, I took the disassembled block
and parts to the machine shop. This is a 'Mom and
Pop' operation actually a brother and sister
operation. Both are in their early 60's. Brother
wasn't in the day I took the parts in. Sister
lifted the block off the tailgate on my truck and
set it on a cart!
 
Les Paul, the guitarist, guitar maker, used a Cadillac flywheel for the first turntable in his recording studio. :)

In the mid 70's I overhauled my brother's 56 ford 6 and later it surprised me to find that the flywheels in my late 50's, 1500 Austins, were almost twice as thick and heavy as the one in that ford 6, with 4 spd.

The flywheel in my Jube is probably as thick or thicker than the Austin ones.

Cool thing i found on that truck was a grease nipple on the throwout bearing!!!!!

Edit: Just remembered Dale Fewings a mechanic saying to me, "Yeah, those 1500 Austins have bottom ends in them like tractors!!"

T
 
In the '50s we used to buy pig feed and chicken feed at a local mill. One daughter of the owner could throw a 100# bag of feed onto her shoulder and carry it out to customer vehicles. At 15 (then) I could not do that and certainly can't now.
 
Aas I said yesterday, "The probability of a given event occurring is inversely proportional to it's desirability."
 

I was careful with the oil pan as I know it is a heavy part of the structure. Did not think that the block would also be part of the structural integrity. I stuck a couple of 4x4's under the pan for it to plop down on when it came loose. I have a nice 302 Ford block sitting in the barn all ready to go, that would go great in the 8N. I don't have the fabrication skills to change the hood etc, to fit it. The 302 was in my '66 mustang before I went to the 5.0 HO engine/EFI/AOD tranny etc. It is still in good shape and only had about 30K on it when I removed it. :shock:
 
LOL! I have an Isuzu diesel that I would like to put in a non-running 8N I have.
 
That's a tough one. But as said, be glad it's wasn't a toe.
If you want to deal with a heavy flywheel take one off of a 3 cylinder Ford with the dual clutch.
I don't know why they're so heavy but I'm sure they're well over a hundred lbs.
I lifted one into place a few years ago and sprained a couple of fingers on each hand.
Slowed down my wrenching skills for a month.

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You wrote:
"I don't know why they're so heavy but I'm sure they're well over a hundred lbs."

I've always thought of it as relates to the advantage of momentum.
If you turn off a new engine it comes to an abrupt halt, whereas an engine with a heavy flywheel will roll over a couple of times before stopping because of the momentum built up in the flywheel. That momentum works to working advantage at lower RPMs as well I think.
 
T,
They made these engines in 158, 175, 183, 192, 201, 234, 252 and 401 CI. (modular - 3, 4, 6 cyl)
But the larger engines actually used a smaller flywheel. It was just the smaller tractors with the double clutch that had the real heavy ones.
 

remember that old rock music line,
"heavy makes me happy."

That's until Don McClean got hold of it and made "heavy" an unbrotherly thing. :)

The old fish boats in our harbors when I moved here had many an ancient Easthope engine among them, with their huge flywheels.

Like your heavy tractor flywheel, a thing of beauty, gathering momentum and you reaping the stored inertia for a smoother tractor engine's pull.

I plead the 5th! 8)

Cheers,
T
 

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