351w swap in progress.

[farmer]

No pics of the cooler setup yet. Haven't got that far with that yet. The power steering lines turned out to be a huge PITA, a botched abortion of multiple lines cut , spliced, compression fittings. That will be revisited soon.

Exhaust is done, 2-1/2" straight pipes, yup it barks.

Drove the truck a couple towns away to see some bands play this weekend, made it there and back no problems. Gave me a couple things to fix though

After major header mods the header rubs the rag joint still when the motor moves. Also motor moves a lot. Getting some chain and turnbuckles, going to chain the front of the motor into place, pull it a bit to the passenger side for clearance, then tighten the drivers side to keep it in place.

Transdapt oil filter relocation SUCKS ASS. Pisses nonstop can't seem to solve it and of course it's buried in there. Probably pisses me off the most.

Have some sort of earlier truck throttle cable. Sucks too. Huge loop makes the accelerator stiff, I have no finesse with the throttle.

I think that's about it for now.

 

[dangerranger83]

My oil filter relocator leaks where the fittings go into it. Instructions said to put only two wraps of Teflon tape around the threads so that's what I did....guess I need to put more, why I listened to instructions like that is beyond me.

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[farmer]

I don't think I put Teflon tape on the plugs. The one I had to use comes out 90* with 4 ports, you plug off 2. It's leaking bad. I have almost no clearance around it to get up on there. Just need to do it and get it over with.

 

[grips]

Don`t trust those remote filters. That is why I installed a steering box on the outside of the frame and run as standard filter.