QuotePwrWgnDrvr A high compression, hi revving performance motor won't do shit for his situation. Did not say high compression or high reving, dont put words in my post, clear you have no clue between the specs on a low perfromance 383 or a 413 truck engine and a perfromance magum 383 RR motor, but you have always been like this and everybody knows it. Go ahead, switch out the engine and
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Sounds like you just need to refreshen the 383 in the truck, add some Roadrunner 383 mag heads with a 5 way valve job, new springs, a perfromance camshaft and rering the pistons with a good hone job and add headers, MSD ignition, big carb and alum torker intake, forget that boat anchor 413, waste of time and effort and money, you cant make a silkpowerpurse out of a 413 boar harelol Good luck, t
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How does one bolt up a New Venture 4500 onto the back of a Dodge 360??? What factory bellhousing is still available and what year do I ask for and what is the part number?? Does anybody know of any other adapter like from Advance Adapters or Novaks that would allow a Jeep 360 factory bellhousing to be redrilled and the nv4500 to be bolted up to the adapter??? What about a truck bellhousing out
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Found old pic, looks non orginal as attached with screws??
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I cant remeber its down at the ranch locked up. I am thinking it is a 4 speed direct, i dont ever drive it on the road but use it to feed deer.
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The transmission in my 1966 w500 has locked up and i need a good used one to replace it, anybody have one they can ship to texas?? Could you post a picture of it?? It has the pto that uses the spacer to make it clear for the front mounted winch, am also looking for any w500 chrome emblems. I have the orange one that I found on this site out in New Mexcio, Thanks in advance to anybody who can
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My w500 hood just blew up and ripped out the hinge from the firewall, does anybody have the link and parts needed to make the later Ram truck cable and hood latch setup install how to for our sweptline trucks??? i think somebody made up some brackets or???? I need some glovebox"s too??? Who has those metal rerpos?? rats eat mine to swimthereens down here, thanks. I am about to get my tr
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Thanks for the link, i looked at Woods page for a long time and will buy an angle finder and get to work, I have to lift it to install the 18.4x16.1x44 American Farmers v treads, the closed knuckle especially the odd crewcab dana44 is a crossover steering orphan, basically I ordered a kit for a 77 1 ton chevy 4x4 with a dana60 and had the dropped pitman arm made for a 78 ford 3/4 4x4 gearbox spli
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Please, where does one measure exactly the pinion angle and what should it be for a lifted sweptline truck, I lifted my truck 12 inches and now have extreme angles and too short driveshafts. I have seen transfercase drop kits and can make one but I dont get how to figure how much to drop the transfercase before it gets too off itself. I am still struggling with the conversion but am close to s
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