Ford Y-Block: How to Repair and Rebuild the 1954-62 Ford OHV V-8

This book is a waste of money. First half was about golf. Second half looked like a reprint of the shop manual

Needed a book to rebuild a 368 Lincoln y block motor exactly the book I needed and delivered to my door next day

This book is a wonderful source of information on the Ford Y-Block. The front is a good history section, the middle is a good section on repair, and the end is a series of blow-up diagrams and parts lists. A History buff might want to also look at Chase Morsey's book "The man who saved the Ford V-8" on the product decisions behind this engine.

this entire book looks like a photocopy. The pictures are so black you can't even make some of them out, let alone see any detail. I have several other books published by MBI, and they are all first class. I can't believe they would release something of such poor quality. If it wasn't for the good history brief of where this engine design fits into the chronology of Ford V8 engine development, and the high quality technical information (I think it is the only book around on the Y-block) contained in this book, I would have given it only one star.

There just isn't a whole lot out there on the Y-block, so that alone makes this 3 stars. However, like other reviewers have noted, the illustrations and photographs are absolutely horrid. The best of them are pretty bad and most are completely useless - black and white blobs with no detail. The text reproduced fine, but completely falls apart with the figures. Don't purchase this if you're hoping for visual references - it's for text content only.