My father in law and i just got the 360 out of hi 1956 F100 and found several of little hard plastic pieces once we removed the valve cover come to find out that the Valve Seat are some of them are cracking and have some pieces gone ( the ones the we found bouncing around) now how much will it cost to get this things replace or fixed, the engine spilled all of the oil that was left in there from about 15 years of sitting outside and it did not look milkie or anything it was dirty but we could not see anything else wrong the pistons looked a little burned but they move very freely, so my question is what would cost this valve seat to craked and brake? any help would be nice thank you guys.

 

You are referring to valve seals, not valve seats. Valve seats are made as part of the cylinder head.

Valve seals are available at any autoparts store. Intake/exhaust are the same (16 total) and the same seals were used 1965/76 in 352/360/390/410/427 & 428 engines, all commonly referred to as FE engines.

These seals are rubber and flexible when installed, but over time, harden up, then crack apart, the bits and pieces appear to be plastic, but aren't.

Since the only V8 available in 1956 F100/350's was the 272 Y block, the 360 was swapped in by a previous owner. 360's were factory installed in 1968/76 F100/350's only.

 

Do you have the heads off? Are you planning to rebuild this or just run it?

Valve seal replacement as per the prior post can be done with the heads on the engine with a special tool. If the heads are off, it's easier. DO NOT try to take the valve springs and keepers off without the proper tools. You run the risk of "getting an eye full". Not the good kind.

 

Yea he swap the engines back when he got the truck back in early 80's, but yeah i got the name confuse, but yeah the heads are off, well he said that he had this rebuilt and bored back in early 90 but something happen and he just kind of parked the truck out back yard and after 6 years of me and my wife asking him for the truck he finally gave in and choose to work on it again, but he still has not told me what happen and why he just parked it, but anyway he said he is going to take it to the shop and have someone check and make sure everything still good, in my opinion everything is good in this engine but i have been wrong before.

 

I hope we can just get it back together and run it, but is his call still so i am just helping with what i can

 

You took his little girl, now you want his truck, might be more than the man can take.

just sayin





John

 

LMAO!! Joe!!!, thats hard man.

Hey surely he still has the dog and wife to keep him occupied right ?

 

While the heads are off check for hardened valve seats for todays unleaded fuel.

 

D2TE-AA heads (introduced 1972) have hardened valve seats factory installed, C8AE heads do not.

 

Yeah we will thanks

 

Clean out the pieces, as much as you can, reinstall the valve covers and run it for a few weeks/months to see if it has any other problems.

Make sure you get the pieces out of the head drain holes.

It won't kill it to run it without the valve seals (umbrellas more like it) for a little while, just to make sure the rest of the engine doesn't need work.

 

Yeah we are going to check everything else to make sure that it has nothing else wrong thanks man.

 

yesterday i pulled the valve covers on my 360 and found the same thing, little pieces of hard rubber. guess i'll be replacing the seals as well.