Getting ready to rebuild an old continental (4cly) flat head motor, Any body know of any sources the may have engine parts for rebuilding this massive motor? A whopping 48 hp at 2400 rpm.

divco:

I am sorry for you! ;^D I used to rebuild "F" series and "Y" series Continentals many years ago, and I thing I did one or two of the little N62s

I expect that you are doing a Y, and as I recall, they came as Y112s, since I think they were in some kind of car. I am trying to remember what cars they came in, but can't. These engines were all for lift trucks and other industrial use.

If you have the "F", like an F124, or F162 or some such thing, macke very sure that you carefully flatfile the aluminum filler blocks to sit flat on the block - these are at each end of the cranckcase, and the back one has the rear rope seal.

The blocks of the smaller versions in a series can take a big overbore to the larges; recall a whopper overbore of about .200" once! We'd face the heads down so much that most of the combustion chambers were gone.

Why don't you try Egge? www.egge.com

Try the Yesterdays Tractors website, @ www.ytmag.com its a very large, (I think the largest) antique farm tractor and equipment site on the net.
I think there were some farm impliments and tractors that used the continental engines.
jim Callaghan