I wanted to know the MEL block deck ht. My Lincoln Gold Portfolio 1949-60 book has a full page transverse cross section of a MEL engine on page 156. The illustration shows the rod journal, not the main journal, but it does show the flywheel. I got an idea - the center of the flywheel is the crank center - I have a few protractors - if one of them fits the flywheel, I could find the crank center. One of my protractors was a perfect fit for the flywheel, and I found the crank center and marked it on the illustration. With a triangular engineering ruler, I used the 60 parts per inch scale and measured the MEL con rod length at 80/60. 80 divided by 6.6 = 12.121212. With the same scale, I measured the MEL block deck ht at the center of the cylinder at 132/60. 132 divided by 12.121212 = 10.89. I measured the MEL cam - to - crank centers at 64/60. 64 divided by 12.121212 = 5.28. So the MEL center block deck ht is 10.89 and the cam - to - crank centers are 5.28 apart according to the illustration. I measured an FE illustration - AERA 5.044 is the FE cam - to - crank.
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