some research and I find out it comes with the 3 year membership

 

I can't run a 347 in my F150 I am speed density the computer will never recognize it. In order to go 347 stroker I would have to go carbed and I am not real big on carbs. Plus I don't think that will be very daily driver friendly.

Lady at the scrap yard told me $80 for the block with pistons, crank, oil pan, and more goodies like that and she will let me pull the pan before I buy it. Going to get that for the mustang.


All this weekend I am going to be tearing down the 302 I got from my buddy a while ago and Monday bringing it to the machine shop to be baked and checked out. Probably will have the cylinder walls honed to unless they need bored. Also he is going to put new cam bearings in. Probably going to run the stock crank unless he says I need to get a new one. If it is possible I might take the 302 from the 90 F150 and have that one checked out also but I kinda doubt I can pull a engine and strip two by Monday even with my dad's help.
Trav

 

Trav, this has been bugging me for a while; how many trucks do you have exactly? I count 10 in your signature, excluding the bikes and whatever a "Mustang Sedan" is (a Fairmont?). You probably get asked this a lot, but why? It doesn't seem like you have nearly enough people to drive them all. Wouldn't you be saving yourself a whole lot of money, and have higher quality vehicles if you were to take all the good parts and put them all onto one or two vehicles and sell the rest that aren't in as good of shape? IMHO one truck that can do ten things is better, and MUCH cheaper than ten trucks each doing one thing.

 

That is correct I emailed George & that is what he told me.

 

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I have:
2 F150 (my 1988 F150 and dad's new daily driver 1990)
4 F250 (1989 work truck, brother's 1991 F250, fun/work truck 1992, and me and my dad's baby 2002)
1 F350 (hauler truck 1989)
1 chevy van (had since I was 5 and can't find anybody to buy it at the price I am willing to sell it at)
1 bronco II (trail truck 1984)
1 Envoy XUV (mom's 2004)
2 Harleys (my dad's 2007 FLSTC and my 1973 XLCH)
1 mustang (sisters car that is a sedan not a hatchback that I am building slowly)
1 ranger (other brother's 92/96 ranger)
1 explorer (my current and probably for a while daily driver)


I have so many vehicles because we get them cheap and I love working on vehicles in my free time. Yes it takes a while to work on all of them but I have been able to get rid of them also if I wanted to but I get so attached to them. No we can't drive every one of them but I can work on all of them. Really as much as I paid for most of them I am always ahead. Sometimes I think I have a lot of vehicles but then I think what would happen if I didn't have all of them. It takes time and money to get them to par but that's what me and my dad are willing to do to make everyone of them nice again.
My problem with just having one truck that can do a lot is some of these are so nice I get scared even hooking a small trailer to them where as others I get scared taking them on a road trip because of how they are set up. Every one of our vehicles have different specifications that makes them each cool in their own way.




Craig after looking at the block and all the parts I have a lot of them look really good. I am willing to put a lot of money into a 302 to keep my 88 the way it is. My 88 has been with me 4 years and is my first truck so keeping it one way (the way I have almost always wanted) is cool to me.
Trav

 

Good afternoon Arizona...looks like rain is in your future!

 

Good Morning Everyone.

 

Hello Craig, Trav, and Bart. Hope everyone is doing well.

 

break time! decided to put my spare transmission in my truck today, I had a vibration in 5th gear at 1900 to 2100 rpm. once I got it out I noticed an exhaust leak on the up pipes so I decided to pull them and put new doughnuts in them, upper left bolt galled coming out, had to run a thread chaser in the collector, upper right bolt wouldn't move, head was slightly rounded! had to pull right manifold slide up pipe put heat collector red hot hammer on bolt head finally got it to move. started to re assemble and a manifold bolt broke off. removed manifold again removed broken bolt. now putting everything back together.

praying that this is a good transmission, is supposed to only have 60,000 miles on it, but I bought it used! and some people do lie when they are selling stuff.

 

Good Evening Everyone.
It should be fine Bart. Pull the top & look inside if you have doubts.

 

short drive tonight, seemed good. for the first time since I have owned this truck about 8 or 9 years and almost 200,000 miles I can down shift every gear!
the original owner didn't know how to shift and ate up all the synchronizers.
going to phoenix tomorrow so i will see what the temps do.

 

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Good Morning Arizona.

 

Howdy az gang dropped both my 302 and my brother's 460 off at the machine shop. he is going to have them baked and bored .030 over and we then just need to get a rebuild kit.
Trav