had (the car my engine/tranny came out of).
429 v8
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well im sure they didn't hurt seeing how corroded those sparkplugs were, but turns out at somepoint the dizzy did ocme out, because it was 180 outt, so the ole girl is runnin! another question though is the oil was milky, i guess there was water mixed up with it, you guys think this is just condensation from sitting in that old parts truck for two years? because the hoses or nothing were covered upp, so i assume it wasnt part of engine failure??
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and also when i went to buy the plugs the guy kept trying to give me the little 5/8 one because he said thats what the 73 429 out of a lincoln had (the car my engine/tranny came out of) but the plugs i pulled were gigantic 13/16 ones, so i had to take one up there so he could get the number off the plug ( like he couldnt just look back there and grab the fatter plugs 
) anyways he is trying to tell me i have aftermarket heads, but the casting numbers say d2ve-aa which from my research are the original headss?? so did some of these engines come with the 13/16 plugs stockk?
P.S. i already got the plugs from them and all and put in my engine im just curious about the headss
) anyways he is trying to tell me i have aftermarket heads, but the casting numbers say d2ve-aa which from my research are the original headss?? so did some of these engines come with the 13/16 plugs stockk?P.S. i already got the plugs from them and all and put in my engine im just curious about the headss
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NO Lincoln or Lincoln Continental Mark of any year came with a 429! 1968/77's all came with 460's. Some 1978's came with 400's, some came with 460's as it depended on state emission requirements.
1971/73 429 & 1971/78 460's, some 1979 460's share the same block casting number: D1VE-6015-AB / 429/460's look identical and share the same bore. The stroke is different.
1971/73 429's, 1973/78 460's came with ARF-42 spark plugs.
1968/70 360/390/429/460's came with BRF-42 spark plugs.
429: 1968/71 Thunderbird / 1968/73 misc Ford/Merc Passenger Cars.
460: 1968/78 Lincoln/Continental Marks / 1972/76 Thunderbird / 1973/78 misc Ford/Merc Passenger Cars // 1973/76 F100 / 1973/97 F250/350 / 1975/79 F150 / 1975/97 E250/350.
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hmmm well then i have no cluee, i guess the tranny and engine are out of two different vehicles then, because i know the tranny came out of a 73 lincoln, so i just assumed thats what the engine came out of, so i guess all i really know is that its a 73 429
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And if the oil was milky the engine could have gotten water in it while sitting or it could be from head gasket failure..
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I would suspect head gasket failure to be the culprit of the milky oil. Did you go through the engine before you put it in? A simple $100 gasket set is well worth the time/money while you have the engine out of the vehicle.
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well the truck is my daily driver so i just pulled it and stabbed it in, to get her back on the road fast as possible, so im going to have to fix the problems asthey arise, hope its not a head gasket and its just from sitting
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Ah I gotcha. I have been there too. Is your radiator still full of antifreeze? You did say you had it running, so if it was a head gasket, I would think your radiator would be low.
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i didnt have any fluids in the radiator, i just crank it up for a few minutes, the fluid thats in the oil was already in there, just got done dranining the oil, changing the filter it started raining so when i tstops im gonna go fill the radiator up put new oil in, and see how it goes, and i checked on oreilly's, if it is the head gasket, they're only 16.99 a peice for the felpro's, you said 100$ so im kinda confused
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i didnt have any fluids in the radiator, i just crank it up for a few minutes, the fluid thats in the oil was already in there, just got done dranining the oil, changing the filter it started raining so when i tstops im gonna go fill the radiator up put new oil in, and see how it goes, and i checked on oreilly's.
if it is the head gasket, they're only 16.99 a piece for the felpro's, you said 100$ so im kinda confused
if it is the head gasket, they're only 16.99 a piece for the felpro's, you said 100$ so im kinda confused
Read the post again. big-ugly said head set not just one head gasket. What were you planning to do, use the other gaskets over again?
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noo, i hadnt planned on replacing them, i didnt take the heads off, i put the new oil in and it still leaked some water in, so i put some bar's leak stop leak, in as i have before because my radiator was leaking, well long story short i think it fixed the problem now, no water was leaking out of the radiator, so going to change the oil again and see how it goes
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Those little "mechanic in a bottle" tricks never seem to work for me.. If it worked for you, more power to ya. I still think it would have been well worth the time and $$ to buy a complete gasket set for the engine and replace most of the gaskets... but that's just me.. I guess it's too late now anyways. Did you at least put new freeze plugs and a rear main in while you had the engine out?