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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 1 Moderated | | Moderated Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 1 | New to the forum, but not old iron. My tastes do run towards South Bend's finest (Studebakers), but my wife inherited a '50 216 powered half ton, ex Air Force, or was it still Air Corps back then? someday we will have it back on the road.
My main reason for joining was for technical info. I have been rebuilding engines professionally for 32 years ( you get a masters degree,and you too can work in a machine shop! ).
We have 2, 235s in the shop now, a late engine that is going into a '52, and '44ish babbitt pounder. NOS military block and head, modifying the block to accept a late full-pressure crank. It fits a G506 ton and a half Army truck.
And a 289 Stude, 352 Packard, 7 Model T, 2 Bristol 6 cylinders, 2 '28 Stutz, etc, etc,etc | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 | Welcome to the Stovebolt madness. There is no cure! 
Martin
'62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress)
'47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project)
‘65 Chevy Biscayne (Emily)
‘39 Dodge Business Coupe (Clarence)
“I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one!
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USAF 1965-1969 Weather Observation Tech (I got paid to look at the clouds)
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Welcome to the Stovebolt. You are now a member of the Texas Connection!
Glad to have you here and I'm sure you can contribute much to the discussions with you experience. Great guys here to interact with. See you around the garage. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 | Welcome to the 'bolt.
Please scroll through the various forums to see what they have to offer.
Make sure to check out the rules of the page as well.
Questions pertaining to your problem are welcome and will usually get answered quickly.
There are many "how I done it's" here as well that can be found using the search feature.
Another quality post.
Real Trucks Rattle
HELP! The Paranoids are after me!
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 | Welcome! Sounds like you have an interesting stable of vehicles. Lots of good Chev. info on this site. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,927 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,927 | I too am interested in Studebakers though I never had one. Personal story: back in 1960 my folks wanted to replace their worn out 58 Ford so one day Dad brought home a new Lark to try out. We kept it a couple of days then Dad took it back, and they bought a new Rambler instead. For 50 years and more there have been no new Ramblers or Studes.
I am interested in your '44ish 235 crankshaft project. Please share with us the details. I imagined doing something similar in the past myself.
Welcome to the Stovebolt Madness!
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 4,209 Moderator, Electrical Bay | | Moderator, Electrical Bay Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 4,209 | Howdy from Dallas and welcome. I take it you have a shop in or around BCS? Our daughter and son-in-law got undergrad degrees from A&M by the way.
~ Jon
1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 2,061 Big Bolt Forum Moderator | | Big Bolt Forum Moderator Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 2,061 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | While you're whittling on that block, counterbore the rear main bearing cap area for this seal: https://www.zoro.com/skf-shaft-seal-3-78x4-34x38-crwa1-nbr-38647/i/G9397674/It eliminates the rope seal and stops that annoying drip from the flywheel housing dead in its tracks. I have a home-brewed mounting fixture for my Van Norman 944S boring bar that allows me to set up in the rear man bearing bore with the cats' paws and cut a square-bottomed counterbore the right size to press the seal into. Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 10 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 10 | lol that's too funny....now I have an excuse.... | | |
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