When Mortske found this truck and showed it off the first time, everyone was asking what the price would be when he sold it. This is because Mortske sells a ton of the cars and trucks you see on his channel. But this one here is NOT for sale, which is annoying since it also won’t run very far without getting hot. Now if you don’t know anything about a Flathead Ford V8, they are incredibly simple in some ways and overly complicated in others. The cylinder heads are just big slabs with combustion chambers in them and reliefs where the intake and exhaust go in and out. There are not ports like you would see in a standard overhead valve engine, because the valves are in the block and open up to let air and fuel in or exhaust out. But that’s a story for another day. They have a distributor like your average older V8 and such, but the cooling system is interesting because there is a water pump on each side of the engine. Yep, two water pumps.

So if one goes out this thing will get hot. If two go out then something strange is probably going on to cause both to go at once. But who knows. We’re about to find out what the cause is on the flathead in this 1936 Ford pickup. It could have nothing to do with the engine at all, and all be in the radiator or something. Regardless, we’re pretty sure that the fix can’t be something horrible to fix on one of these. After all, this was before Ford abandoned their model of simplicity and interchangeability that Henry Ford was so proud of.