Alternative motive power

[Stew Robertson]

The flat head is one of the easiet engines to rebuils the biggest problem is finding good blocks that are not cracked between the valve seats and barrels
Your own home made tools will work for valve removal and for less the a grand you can have all the parts- Oversize piston, crank regind, cam and gaskets your only other cost is clening the block and magna flux
I just finished a 100 hjp merc engine without labour I head 1047.00 in it
Then I had to put the starter on and rebuilding the Generator
I would rather rebuild an old flatty any day compared to a six banger Chuv
Stew

[Marc van Aalderen]

Hi All,

This Carrier was brought to the Netherlands by Dirk Leegwater. It has a Chrysler V8 with automatic TF8 gearbox. Dirk drove it in Canada when he purchased it and he told me it was very fast and turned like a dream.

It was sold after I declined to buy it to a Belgian guy who has since restored it.

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Cheers,

[D Ellery]

Thanks Marc, Mean looking set up, not much room left for anything else though. Although I suppose the owner was only after a fun machine.

[D Ellery]

What was the last Ford v8 produced that could be bolted to the standard Ford truck gear box found in Carriers without any major modifications.

[Tony Smith]

Efi Mustang 5.0 with a simple adapter:

[John Mackie]

I have a new adaptor housing (for sale) Ford gearbox to Ford 4 cyl 220 CI diesel as used in Fordson tradtor.
This plate part # E9-GA-5 was used on Fordson Thames trucks fitted with the 4 cyl. petrol or diesel engines.
As the sump on these is much deeper than the V8 it would create all sorts of preblems with the flexable coupling.

[Rob Dyba]

Hi guys, as an experiment I thought I would trial fit a Commodore V6/Auto into an empty hull & see what the outcome would be. If this was to be something that a restorer was contemplating to do while an affordable flattie came along you would need to do a gearbox conversion, the Auto will not fit without cutting of the rails where the flatty would fit- not an option for me. I can't find an adaptor to mate a GM V6 to a CMPor Ford T8 box so that is that as V6/Auto goes unless you are prepared to remove a lot of original (structural) steel goes it's not a viable conversion. There is one Carrier owned by Emu Gully that is reported to be v6/Auto but I have not seen it move under it's own power, nor the install either.

Anyone got an adaptor to fit a V8 anything to a CMP box for sale? I have no flatties to spare, and to be honest I want a powerup over my STD LP carrier for a bit of fun.

Rob