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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1199196" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>I had about 50 old hubcaps a few years ago, maybe more, nailed to the top plate beams of a tractors shed. When the wind got up, they made a heck of a racket and I finally took them down and sold most of them. Did some research and at the time, they were worth more as stainless scrap than they were to the collector market. I kept a few--I'll have to try to get a picture of one, if I didn't give them to my son a few months ago. </p><p></p><p>Those Ford/Merc flatheads were nice, everything right out in the open--except when it came time to set the valves. </p><p>I worked on lots of them in my father's auto shop. They were sludgy tho, from having those bypass oil filters (only part of the oil goes thru the filter, while the rest goes to the bearing areas--straight from the pump. Had a tendency to run hot too, even with 2 water pumps--hot because of the really thin castings around the cylinders and in the heads. I still ave the sleeve pullers my dad used, and the precision reamers for the cam bushings, and several rolls of shim stock he used to shim bearing caps with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1199196, member: 18945"] I had about 50 old hubcaps a few years ago, maybe more, nailed to the top plate beams of a tractors shed. When the wind got up, they made a heck of a racket and I finally took them down and sold most of them. Did some research and at the time, they were worth more as stainless scrap than they were to the collector market. I kept a few--I'll have to try to get a picture of one, if I didn't give them to my son a few months ago. Those Ford/Merc flatheads were nice, everything right out in the open--except when it came time to set the valves. I worked on lots of them in my father's auto shop. They were sludgy tho, from having those bypass oil filters (only part of the oil goes thru the filter, while the rest goes to the bearing areas--straight from the pump. Had a tendency to run hot too, even with 2 water pumps--hot because of the really thin castings around the cylinders and in the heads. I still ave the sleeve pullers my dad used, and the precision reamers for the cam bushings, and several rolls of shim stock he used to shim bearing caps with. [/QUOTE]
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