Ok yesterday I set out to put the new motor in Big Ugly but as you know one thing leads to another and pretty soon you have half a dozen cans of worms opened. fist off I reassembled and recammed the motor that I had pulled from my 71 Chevy one ton. I gave it a Comp Cams Duel Energy 255 and added a set of their High Energy roller tip rockers.
http://inlinethumb45.webshots.com/42668/27...S600x600Q85.jpgIf you remember it has been my plane to put this motor in Big Ugly for the better part of 6 months when I first thought that I had blown her motor up after over heating her really bad. Well I had gotten as far as pulling the motor from the 71 tearing it down and inspecting it but the old motor
http://inlinethumb43.webshots.com/44458/27...S600x600Q85.jpgkept right on going , it had very low oil pressure and consumed more than it’s share of oil but had good power. Well beings as the two motors had all the same casting numbers I had assumed that they would be the same well they are not. It doesn’t matter as far as the swap goes but I was hoping for it to be a great core it was still going with good power but I didn’t want to have a rod let go and junk it out. You see the motor from the 71 is a four bolt main a forged crank and 2.020 valve heads but as it turns out Big Ugly just had a run of the mill 350 two bolt cast crank 1.94 heads I could really care less if I had sent a rod though the block.
http://inlinethumb03.webshots.com/42242/23...S600x600Q85.jpg oh well
Next I decided that I wanted to use the exhaust manifolds from the 71 because it had had new exhaust when I quit driving it and the head pipes to the back of the cab
http://inlinethumb31.webshots.com/10974/26...S600x600Q85.jpg would work great on Big Ugly then I would only have to get new mufflers and have tailpipes made. This was a great idea till I found that the left manifold from the 71 dumped right on the clutch linkage so this took some fab work if you look at the picture you will see where I cut off the leaver that goes to the clutch arm and welded it back on where it will clear the manifold and down pipe.
http://inlinethumb17.webshots.com/41168/22...S600x600Q85.jpgThen while I was cleaning her under hood I found she had a broken bell housing two out of three of the bolt holes that hold the starter on were broken
http://inlinethumb32.webshots.com/33567/22...S600x600Q85.jpg But I have another it has a bigger pilot hole but I also have an adapter ring that takes up the space between the pilot hole on the bearing support on the transmission. If you look closely you will see where I have glued the ring in with Lock Tite.
http://inlinethumb16.webshots.com/42959/21...S600x600Q85.jpgWell this is as far as I have gotten and you can see my excessive compulsive behavior is taking over and gets worse with every can of worms that gets opened up LOL. When it is all said and done I will have one good running and good looking drive train wrapped in a rusty pile of sh!t LOL oh well it has been a good truck.
