[AT] Ford N

[Richard Fink Sr]

Yes Mike i tryed both ways. That was the best wet. Was told it does 
not use much oil between changes. I tryed to open your album but must 
have a neighbor on the phone waited about 4 minutes than gave up. I 
know what your are saying about bad seats have worked on some older 
ford flat heads. And found they had cracks in them. No fun to 
replace. This is not my tractor a neighbor owns it and asked what it 
would cost to get it hitting on all four again. I said i thought 
around 400 if it had no bad seats. That was replacing 4 valves if 
needed. And the kit to put rotators on all the exhaust valves.
I always used water to clean up the valves if i thought they were 
carboning up. Keep up rpm and spray water in the carb let it stem real good.
R Fink



At 08:05 AM 4/27/2010 -0400, you wrote:
>Doing the valves on an 8N is not a bad job (compared to doing the same
>thing with a 9N/2N with those split guides). If you take the engine out
>and bring it to the shop, it will be a lot cheaper than bringing them
>the whole tractor. It would depend on what has to be done - "bad valves"
>covers a wide range of sins from burned heads to damaged seats to just a
>little carbon stuck under the lip. Plus, you might find a wide range of
>prices that are related to the experience of different shops.
>
>If it were me, I would pull the head and side covers and take a closer
>look before going any farther. Have you done a dry vs. wet compression
>check? - your valves could be OK and have really bad rings. Here is what
>I discovered when I popped a piston out of my 2N when it had similar
>compression readings:
><http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/1946_ford_2n/2n_no2_piston_sm1.html>.
>
>As it happened, the valves weren't all that great either, so I took the
>engine down to the local machine shop and had the valves done (two bad
>seats). Fortunately, that engine is not as heavy as it looks (if you
>take the crankshaft out first!). I put it in the trunk of my little
>Subaru easily; taking it out was a little more work...
>
>Mike
>
>Richard Fink Sr wrote:
> > Hi people what would be a fair prise to do a valve job on a 8 n
> > flathead. Has at least two bad valves   comp. 1-55 2-25 3-75 4-75
> >
> > R Fink
> >
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