a few things to consider: 1. are the intake and manifold botled together well and are the mating surfaces to engine prefectly aligned with each other? 2. are you using at least grade 5 nuts and the correct washers? 3. Even the grade 5 yhou get these days is chinese junk so I buy grade 8 for that job...

i am in the process of changing all wheel cylinders and replacing all brake tubing with this on my truck: http://catalog.fmsiinc.com/viewitems/brake-lines/poly-vinyl-fluoride-brake-lines? it is very close to 24087 OD in color if that is the same green lines that some napas sell it is the worst junk...

looks great! Keep it! just slap a winch on it and charge toyota owners for rescue missions. :lol: question: how does the crankcase breathe without the oil fill tube breather line hooked up? If you want to keep that style of carb you could swap out the fill tube to a WW2 style that has a miniature oi...

yes they come out the top. inframe rebuilds were common back in the day.

just throw a hydravac booster on the stock brake system and it will be as good as anyuthing else. learing how to adjust the stock brakes is important too. takes some learning buts does not costs 1000s of dollars like convertng everything over does. plus stock diffs are way stronger than any D44 and ...

it is 25 to 30 foot pounds. some books say 27 ft lbs to be exact. some run 2 bearings but not recommended for offroad. ther is a reason all closed knuckles are set up with the bronze cone on top. strength and stability.

what vehicle does that come from?

I believe all the light duty trucks have the same pan. there might be variances in the drain plug size. the way they bolt on never changed to my knowledge over the entire life of the 23 inch engines or the 25 inch engines

interestingit fits like a glove!. howcome you couldnt use the 318 flywheel?

I would like to see the engine conversion pics. keep em coming! foruma are for hamming it up

nice work. what engine?

you could just run it stock for now and then if you come up with the parts switch them with engine in the frame and see if there is any difference. The big crankshafts in these engines are always making torque. the crank in a mopar flathead six weeighs more than a straight pontiac crank. I would gue...

that is intersting educational stuff. thanks for posting it. But I think the point of all that is to gain more torque. I personally dont think you need to look for torque gains on a 265! they have a 4 3/4 inch stroke as it is. they are torque monsters. They idle smoothly at 325 rpms. I would run sto...

im hoping to increase the rod ratio to get some gains out of my build. i have zero dollars invested and everything i need to complete the build including a fully machined block. i can afford to do a little extra. im looking to get 20% to 25% gains compared to my 40over 251 @ 8.2-1 I have driven 265...

cant answer the question but I have one. What will you gain by doing that? I have driven 265s and they are beasts compared to the smaller flatheads