The Transplant Begins.......

[COPPERHEAD85]

Pulled the core support out last weekend,rusted out at the frame mount under the battery tray.I thought ...hell ...I can fix that!Screw it.............put the order in at LMC for a new one.
Started pulling the engine and trans today.................when I started....

This afternoon,Sorry so blurry.............Don't know what happend..

Hopefully I can pull them both out together tomm.
I pulled the heads because it will be easy to handle by myself,Its funny how your so called friends disappear when you could use them .
The replacement waiting on its new home............

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Came out pretty easy

Found the problem,It was wht I thought.When they swapped the 302 for the 351 they used the 302 flexplate the balance was off and it killed the main bearings,the reason for low oil pressure and a bad viberation.
302 counter weight on the flexplate

The 351W flexplate wieght,big differance!

I hope it didnt hurt the AOD,fluid looks great,going to pull the pan this week and look closer.I hope I can give it a good outside cleaning,paint job and filter change.

After that if all is well........strip the engine compartment and repaint everything,cleanup the wiring.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Before,

After a good scrubing and some paint,

Heads are on with new ARP bolts.

The Excaliber of torque wrenches.

Gotta pull the master cyl. and all the junk off the fender on the drivers side to clean it up.I have the pass. side cleaned and the inner fender out and painted but pic will not upload to photobucket for some reason.

The new core support came in last week with all new hardware for the headlights and everything else that bolts to it.
The wife scored me some new Poly mounts for the support and the cab plus a trans seal kit for the AOD and some POR-15 for the frame (she is AWESOME by the way).
My heater died in the shop yesterday and its 25 freakin deg. in there today.She made 2 trips to town and bought 2 different space heaters from the pawn shop neither of them worked......lol.She wasted over 3 hours off her last minute shopping for Christmas trying to help me so today Im gonna hang out with her and help her finish.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Slapped on the POR-15,inner fender painted and ready to go back in this weekend.Its gonna be a marathon during my Christmas break from work.

 

[mjonesjr]

Looks good.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Thanks Jones.
I wish i could have found the paint code to match the fire wall,fenders to the outside of the truck but I couldnt.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Together again!!

Back in its home,I cant wait to fire this pig up with uncapped headers!!!!!!

If Im lucky,may get to pull the trigger on it this weekend.