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Posted by El Toro on December 05, 2006 at 10:46:09 from (152.163.100.65):
In Reply to: Dumb question of the day posted by Mike CA on December 05, 2006 at 08:24:12:
Those flathead Ford engines up until 1953 didn't have any adjustment on the valves. The stems of the valves had to be ground. Some lawn mower and garden tractor engines had the same setup. The men that ran moonshine years ago used those Fords with the flathead engines and when they weren't doing that they raced one another on dirt tracks. That was probably the start of NASCAR. We did have a 500hp Ford engine with overhead valves that was used in Tanks and the M7 Mobile Field Dynamometer that the Army had at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The M7 used 2 of these engines for power. The engines were made in the 40's. Hal
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