Hi,
I've got a 58 Apache, which came with a 283, which is sitting in it now, with front mounts. I'm fix'in to swap out a 327 for the 283 and wanted to go to side mounts. I ordered a universal cross member side mount conversion. Seemed like a good idea to me to just slip under the truck and bolt it to the 283 to locate the holes in the frame and drill and mount it, then pull the 283 and drop in the 327.
The problem is the cross member interfers with the emergency break cable lever. Have you encountered this problem? How did you solve it. Oh, FYI it has a 4 speed manual muncie gear box.
I was thinking of just ditching the cross member and going with the front mounts...what do you think?
