I am putting a 73 460 in my 88 dually but the brackets attached to the block do match up to 88 motor mounts any help here would be appreciated

 

Pretty sure the 460 truck mounts will work for you. You can also find kits online that have the mounts, oil pan, & rear sump pickup for the swap.

 

Some updates...

Almost 8k miles on the engine since the late October rebuild. I really need to find something else to drive too keep miles off of the truck even though I love driving it. Plus I may be able to buy more parts with the gas $$$ savings, haha


Took the truck off-roading a few times recently. Had some fun, and got it pretty nasty...




A couple pictures after I cleaned it back up:






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I also ordered 2 more tires for the truck. I've got a "bubble" starting in one of the rear tires, so I figured I'd just put 2 new ones back there and keep the good one as a spare. Should be getting around to putting those tires on soon.

 

Are you referring to the '88 motor mounts? i.e., putting '88 mounts on the older engine?

I coulda swore I read somewhere that the bolt pattern on the engine block itself changed when they went to fuel injection.

I'm just about to go through with my swap as well, so I will need to figure this out. I've got an older 460 block (C9VE) that I'm putting into my '88

 

Lookin' good dude! Gonna start rebuilding my '89 7.3L soon and your pictures are inspiring.

 

Yeah, I'm talking about the motor mounts for the model year 460 configuration of the truck. I don't think the blocks changed, but I could be wrong. Mine is a 1973 D1VE block. The mounts I have were available from Bronco Graveyard the last time I checked.

 

Thanks. Been having some fun with the truck, but I've still got a bit of stuff to do. Sometimes I wish I had a 7.3 diesel like your truck to do a little better on fuel. I do like the power of my 468 when I put my foot down though. I'll get a diesel at some point.

 

Yeah I get like 17 mpg with the bed empty or full. Unfortunately, diesel is like $4 a gallon around here. I've since bought a little ranger for commuting and something to drive while I fix Big Red up.

 

The Ranger sounds like a sensible option. I get right at about 9.5 MPG every tank with my mixed highway/city/traffic driving during the week. Maybe 10.5 running 60 MPH highway. At $3.50 a gallon on gas, you're still making out a bit better in your diesel. $0.24 a mile vs. my $0.36 a mile... It adds up. I really worry more about putting all of the mileage on my truck when I want to keep it in good shape. I'd like to buy a V8 5-speed Mustang for daily driving once I can afford to buy one outright (really don't want to be making car payments...). I'll probably manage about double my current MPG and still have a fun car with some modification potential.

Been hanging around the Ranger forum?

 

Yeah, the mustang would be nice. I like the '83 - '86 fox bodies. My dream car is a 1970 Gran Torino, although I'd settle with a 1970 Fairlane.. or 1970 Ranchero... You get my point.

No ranger forums yet. I've just been too busy. There is some good information on there though. Still can't seem to get her to pass emissions though.

I'll be getting a place (with a garage) in July where I can tear into my truck a little more. Flat bed, custom bumpers with brush guard, twin stacks behind the cab and turbo (with all the supporting mods of course) are some of the things I have in mind.

 

Put a new alternator on my truck this week. The old one has been on its way out for a while and started acting especially weird a few days ago while it was raining so it had to go before it left me somewhere. The alternator might have been original to the truck. It had December 1987 marked on it, so... New alternator came to $105.99. Didn't go cheap on this one. Some of the remans were around $40, but I was a bit skeptical...

I'm about to replace my mechanical fuel pump this morning. I think the diaphragm is damaged in the old one because it got extremely weak. I've just been running off of an electric pump. With the new pump, I should be able to switch back to using only the mechanical pump. I don't know the age on the old pump, but I think it was put on that engine in 1997.

 

Actually the motor mount adapter plates (6046) were very hard to find my motor came from tbird but when I found them in cincinatti I am in detroit I drove all the way there to get them $40 parts but the engine is in the truck and running now I dont know how to add pics on here but I will add variouspics and hints when I can figure out hout to add pics

 

Does your block have 2 or 3 mounting points for the motor mounts? Mine have 3.

The '88 460 motor mounts only have 2 mounting points to the block. Is this what you did? I can't find any swap mounts with 3 holes to the block, and 2 studs to the towers...


Mounts I have:





Mounts I need to convert to:

 

My engine has 3 holes like you're talking about. My mounts look just like that second picture. I have adapter plates in between the mounts and the engine. Bolt the plates to the 3 holes in the block and then bolt the mounts up to those plates. Wish I'd taken pictures of that while I had everything apart.

 

The blocks have the same 3 bosses.
It's a holdover from the internal days when these were mounted in cars.

All D9TE blocks are like this.

There is an adapter plate that connects those truck mounts to the block.