"New" head on an old fourdoor.

Tonight I didn't get to do anything on my own project, as Brian asked me to help him with some work on a beautiful, black '31 fourdoor.

The part-owner, a business associate of Brian, bought this beautiful fourdoor late model A with his father-in-law some years back, but didn't prepare it for winter storage, and therefore the water, and not coolant, expanded at frezzing temperature, cracking the head.

So we needed to install a new head, so it can get ready for a wedding at the 10th of December.

I immediately spotted, that it was a “C” head with the three bolt water pump, and saw to my delight, this beautiful car was equipped with a G28T motor, modified to fit the model A.

And again, this one has also had the full aluminum oil pan cut to fit a model A front bell housing – I cannot grasp, why people are doing this, instead of using the model B bell housing and gearbox.

Brian found an old G28T head in the storage, but it was in pretty bad shape, so he welded the corner of the cast iron head with the tig welder.

We lay a modern gasket under it, and as Brian was putting the head on, I had to leave in order to get home with the last train-bus connection.

I haven't heard from him, so I guess, it started up perfect and that it's not leaking.

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr