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Clockwise = Tighter
CCW = Looser

The short bolt goes in the passenger side lower hole on the pump....Bob T.

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check your exaust heat valve it may be stuck and heating up your intake making your carb boil over

Sounds alot like my 67 gt 500's problem but it was a defective coil. This was after radiator, spacer between carb/intake, thermostat, and insulation around the fuel lines were examined/replaced. Good luck
christian.

know this one. Every tranny rebuild place in the book has a book that tells them all that. Just call one and see what he has to say.

The 351C case is a popular truck tranny, being found in 300-6, 302, and 351W truck applications.

The FE version of the C6 only fits the FE.

Fortunately, these trannies remain readily available used in automotive newspapers for about $75.00 to $100.00, a little more if you go to a salvage yard. Look in 1968-76 2WD pickup trucks for a tranny that'll often drop right into a Fairlane or Mustang, as long as the shift lever and downshift is swapped out or adapted. Beware - some truck C6s have a short tailshaft stub that looks nothing like the car version of the tailshaft.

Shoe.

Fe engines just show low oil pressure. It is one of the natures of the "beast". If the temp gauge is ok and the motor isn't making any weird noises, I would just drive the thing. Watching the oil gauge will drive you crazy on this engine family. You are not the only one with this compaint.

the only thing i have found a hi press pump to do is trash out the cam and dist gear! but i have good luck with melling hi vol pumps.

You said you are getting this reading from the guage in the car. I've got a 65 Tbird that reads low at idle on the guage but there are no other indications that the pressure is low. (no lifter clatter or other noise). I'm more suspicious that the guage is just not accurate at lower rpm. The oil pressure guage is driven by a constant voltage regulator that also drives the fuel guage and temp guage. This little regulator may not have the capacity to accurately drive the the guages at low RPM when the input voltage may be lower. As soon as I increase the RPM just slightly the oil pressure reading increases immediately. It seems like this may be an indication that the voltage regulator may be kicking in the alternator voltage rather than just the battery voltage. Just a theory at this point, but thought I'd pass this along for comment.

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A sonic tester would be able to perform the checks to see whether a particular casting might be able to handle the requisite scalloping of the cylinders without damaging the block, but for the most part it's best to keep the HRs in 427 blocks.

If you feel daring, and are lucky, and the sonic results suggest there is some thick cylinder wall to play with, it might work. Still, the HR really shines at the higher RPMS, and you should also have crossbolts to help contain the extra stresses.

Shoe.

http://fomoco.com/ford-forum-FE/results.asp?Page=1&Max=20&Option=0&Name=on&Email=on&Key=oil%20mods

Any article on oiling mods that does not cover front sump oil pan issues first is the work of an amateur. If you follow it, you are following the advice of someone who does NOT know how to properly upgrade an FE oiling system.

Personally, I believe the stock FE oiling system, with exception of the front sump pan, is basically race ready. Anyone who claims the sideoiler was needed to fix problems with the topoiler has also read too much bad writing. The sideoiler was developed for the Cammer.

If you want, you can perform those mods, but I'd keep looking for an article that get's to the meat of it. Since a front sump engine can dump the oil to the rear if the car is quick enough, it's primarily important that consideration be given to a performance oil pan.

"Sucking air" is one forum search key that might help you find info on the topic, as is "oil starvation". When the pump draws air, the FE runs into problems. Otherwise, the top oiler is one very efficient oiler.

Oh, the mods that are too often printed in so many places are not all bad ideas. They're mostly just presented in an unbalanced fashion, and incorporating them as written has more often caused damage to FE engines than good. Still, some of the ideas in some articles are plain bad.

The topoiling system performed well in NASCAR, as well as other forms of racing.

Shoe.

oil mods are not worth the time. the fe is a very uniform oiler. if bearing clearances are corect

.500 is about the limit, sometimes stock can go as high as .530. However, the cost is minimal and if you stack a spring you can break off the valve and lose the whole motor.

Dont chance it, honest. Its not a spring pressure issue, its a wire diameter and max lift issue.

Trust me, I learned the hard way. I dropped a valve at 6000 RPM in my 351 cleveland. I can email a picture to you of a valve shoved up into the head sideways and 3 cracks in the cylinder wall. It was a big cam with stock springs. Go for the double springs

542 lift is getting up thear almost to the point of cutting spring seats for taller springs i would strongley sugest calling isky and optaining corect spring setup.

Flex-a-lites become flat as the RPMs increase, and therefore perform the same function as a clutch. Clutches are helpful if you have a large rigid fan blade that pumps a lot at idle (desirable on air conditioned cars), but would otherwise pump too much at highway speeds, reducing gas mileage and eating horsepower.

Most all 1960s engines are standard rotation. Only when the serpentine belts showed up a decade later did reverse rotation become much of an issue. All car cranks rotate clockwise, if standing in front of the car and looking rearward. This is why the Ford 9" rear can be used in other cars, and also why trannies can be swapped.

Are you having overheating problems? Does the gauge get hot during normal driveing? It's notmal to peg the temp gauge when you turn off the car, but idling, rush hour, and freeway driving use should be able to handle things without showing anything on the gauge.

You'll have to tell us how your car behaves if you want any good fan suggestions. Bigger eats horsepower, but it must be large enough to prevent overheating the engine.

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