I hope I'm doing this correctly, but I know y'all will be gracious if I'm not.
I'm Gary Lewis and I'm reasonably new to Stovebolts. Well, to be honest two friends of mine and I bought a '37 panel when we were in high school in about '65 and made a dunebuggy out of it. Sorta rebuilt the engine, shortened the frame and torquetube, put dual rear wheels on it, etc. So once upon a time I could spell Stovebolt.
In the year or two since I've gotten into 1980 - 86 Ford trucks and have a similar website and forum to this one
here. There I have a "little bit" of Ford documentation and kind of know what I'm doing.
But along the way I was given a 1950 Chevy pickup that has so many things wrong with it that I was letting it sit. But my 13 year old grandson fell in love with it so we are now working on it when he visits with the hope that some year we'll be able to drive it.
Last summer we found that the block was cracked in several places, so we pulled the old 216 and I bought a '55 235 to put back in. So when he visits in July our goal is to install the engine and get it started.
Originally I'd planned to install frame mounts and use the side mounts the 235 came with, but talking to Brian Davis of Davis Speed Equipment I've come to understand that the easier way would be to go back with the front mount. Unfortunately I didn't save the front plate from the 216 so will need to source one of those as well as the rubber mount itself and the rear mounts.
Which leads me to the question of what books or resources y'all would recommend that would let me know what the part numbers are for those, and many other pieces we will need. Thanks in advance.
