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oil slingers
does the ford fe use a oil slinger on the crankshaft?, is it needed if so where can you purchase one?
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Yes they do. From the course of some of your posts/questions, might I suggest that you go to a local junk yard and purchase a dead FE from a truck and many of the items that you have been asking about will all be in one package. You can also see how they are assembled while taking one apart. I make this suggestion as someone that has 30+ years in building FE engines, with the amount you have tied into some of the parts it isn't probably a job for an FE novice, which you sound to be.
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yes it is my first fe , but not first engine. this is a forum i like to ask the questions to get opinions and answersi dont like to use used parts but i am finding out a lot of the stuff is not available new. the only thing i had questions left on was the cam eccentric and the oil slinger, i think i have just about every thing else. my 342 was my first ford engine so i dont have experience in fords, but i dont appreciate being insulted on a forum.
what is that saying there are no stupid questions. |
I just used an old oil slinger. It's just a piece of thin metal...nothing really special about it. I'd just grab a clean one off of Ebay. Maybe you can find a place that has the oil slinger and spacer together.
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Hey,
Woodzs knows most all of it, you can learn a lot from him. I realized my 40 plus years with Ford and FE's means I never saw and did what I did. Byron |
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Two good places to get all the little odds-n-ends are ebay and DSC motorsports. (www.dscmotorsports.com) Also, no insult intended, but if you haven't purchased and damn near memorized Steve Christ's book yet, you really should. JMO. phil |
The original seal material for the FE was leather…
To keep from flooding the seal beyond it’s capabilities the slinger helped. (It wasn’t perfect, they still wept a bit) With modern seal design and materials the slinger is no longer really necessary, modern seals can handle it. Having said that I still use the slinger out of habit – LOL I have seen more than one that went together without it, no problems. |
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