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Offline Blazin

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Heart transplant coming soon!
« on: August 10, 2010, 08:38:10 pm »
Head gasket gave it up in the 86 this morning! Didn't quite make 227,000 miles!
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Offline BigHemi353

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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2010, 08:52:04 pm »
Aww! Thats too bad!  Im sure it had a good run though. lol   ;D
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2010, 09:22:11 pm »
Was a faithfull motor both times I have run the truck. It sat for about four years while I swapped the cab etc.
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2010, 09:27:49 pm »
Always a good reason for upgrades  ;D
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2010, 09:38:23 pm »
Might still be under warranty.
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Offline fitz

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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2010, 10:13:10 pm »
Are you going to grab a spare 350 from 1 of your parts trucks?
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2010, 11:22:47 pm »
I have a low milage TBI 350 in one of them. Going to slide an RV cam, double roller chain, and a high volume pump into it. Need to get an intake to run a carb too.
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Offline jaredts

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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2010, 11:52:37 am »
Are you going to leave the tbi heads on there?
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2010, 03:18:37 pm »
Does your TBI motor have the fuel pump boss on it?
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2010, 10:08:38 pm »
Yes I am leaving them, and it has a place for a fuel pump.
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Offline pocket5s

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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2010, 10:57:12 am »
I had a head gasket give out recently myself and after a replacement and a failed head I decided to pull the motor and build a 383.
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2010, 01:00:52 am »
After the head gasket gave it up I was still limping it along as I only live about 4 miles from work. Figuring I would get the motor done sometime before snow. Well the clutch blew lunch and its been sitting for about a month now. Been gathering parts. I had a guy that owed me money rebuild this motor about 15 years ago. After about 700 or 800 miles the harmonic balancer fell off and munched the end of the crank where the key way goes. Its been sitting under the hood of that truck ever since. Got run about once a year. I put a new key way in, and filled the missing metal on the crank with weld. Put new rear, and front main seals. New intake, valve cover, and one piece oil pan gasket. Then I primed the bare metal with Transtars self etching primer. I painted all the rust with Chassis Saver. Then I gave it a nice fresh coat of paint. Going to try and drop it in next weekend.







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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2010, 01:53:14 am »
As much as I am not a fan of yellow, Cat yellow makes my inner redneck heart go pitter-patter. Very nice!
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2010, 08:03:59 am »
Didn't you know Cat Yellow adds torque?  Looks like it does anyway.   I like it.
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Re: Heart transplant coming soon!
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2010, 08:18:19 am »
Ain't no 550 C15 but it will work!
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