The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Engine Shop need to repalce V6 engine

I was going to try and rebuild the original V6 engine in the 65 GMC I bought but just found out can't get all the part I need. Will try to put in small block chev engine with automatic and overdrive where can I get motor mounts and tramy mounts is this possible

Bob, Try asking for the parts you need in our Swap Meet section (it's free ) before you give up. What size V6 is it? PM me if you want -- I have some spare 305 parts laying here. I am on the road to Kansas City (see the all truck nationals forum below) but can look next week when I'm back.

I can't imagine just what specific parts would not be available for any fairly modern engine, V6 or otherwise. Just have to be more diligent in your search. If it is a 305 those things were bullet proof and well worth rebuilding. Yes, the drop in 350 small block route is easier but not near as much fun. JMO

You should be able to get motor mounts for that at any local parts store like NAPA. Seriously.

I went to two different machine shop that I have used before to rebuild engine this is there business and both of them told me they could not get all the parts needed as this truck must have been under water as the motor was rusty inside

I think you gotta find someone who wants to do it. An old time mechanic with a boiling vat for the block. If the block is cracked that's an entirely different matter. All internal engine parts are readily available for the 305 V6. Do what you want of course after all it is yours but for someone to tell you the parts to rebuild it are not available, that's just not right. Good luck on your project and post some photos as you go along.

it seems to me that you need to find a good machine shop. (trying to find a decent machine shop to work on old stuff is very trying, I went through 4 before I found a decent one) However, there also exists the possibility that YOU could do some research of your own. I don't know much about the V6, but there has to be parts available, just what exactly are you looking for?

'60-'66 GMC 305/351 V6 parts are available.
A good machine shop, doesn't mean they will work on your V6. A machine that will work on your V6, that is reputable, is the key, in selecting a service-provider.

Good luck with your project.

If my vote counts, go with the 305 V6, be unique and unusual.

perhaps that was the wrong choice of words, maybe "find a different machine shop" is what I should have said. One that is capable of doing what you need, like I said I had a horrid time trying to find one that had any idea what they were doing with old stovebolt engines, I can just imagine how difficult it would be to find one that knows anything about these engines. I am probably wrong, but I'm thinking they made a whole lot less of these V-6's than the old inlines. But in either case it wouldn't hurt to do some research on your own, the internet is your friend in some cases.

I think you used the right term to start with. A good machine shop should be able to work an just about any engine brought to them.

Doesn't require any special tools to line bore, do a cylinder bore, press on new rods for these old V-6s than for the inliners or later model engines.

The difference may be they don't have the knowledge to use them. But that shouldn't be a problem either unless the shop doesn't have any books with the specs in it to start their measurements with.

There is a man here in town that does machine work and he is in his 70s now. Does just about everything from new cam bearings to sewing up a crack in the block. He bores blocks, sleeves them when needed.

About the only thing he doesn't have the equipment to do is line boring.

So perhaps finding a GOOD machine shop should include knowledge of how to work on these old engines. They really aren't that hard to work on.