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First off, welcome abord!
Secondly, what motor do you have in the 79? The 410 Merc should be a FE motor, so you will need motor stands from a FE powered 4x4. If you are running a 4-speed, a new bell housing will be required too. If an Auto, you need a trans.
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Secondly, what motor do you have in the 79? The 410 Merc should be a FE motor, so you will need motor stands from a FE powered 4x4. If you are running a 4-speed, a new bell housing will be required too. If an Auto, you need a trans.
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welcome!!
good luck with this swap, you will like the results. the 410 has a lot of go juice.
where did you find the motor?
had one in my truck a while ago, but had to get rid of it cuz i couldnt get a set of pistons for it after i blew one up. keep us up to date!!!
shadow44_z
good luck with this swap, you will like the results. the 410 has a lot of go juice.
where did you find the motor?
had one in my truck a while ago, but had to get rid of it cuz i couldnt get a set of pistons for it after i blew one up. keep us up to date!!!
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410 pistons are the same as Ford pickup (truck) pistons as far as dimensions go and will interchange. Basically low compression 390 pistons are 410 pistons.
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Just being picky buy a 410 is a ME enigne not a FE Ford never used a 410 in its line. A 410 is a small bore 428 so as far as pistons go a bore job could have taken care of the piston problem. The radiator should work just fine as long as it's in good shape. You deffenatly have a keeper there, they make a lot of torque, have fun.
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I would have to say that the 410 is part of the FE family, although it may be designated as an ME (Mercury Engine), however, I think the MEL engines were the early Merc motors and not the 66-67 version used in the carline (410's, 4.05 bore and 3.98 stroke).
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Actualy A ME engine is any engine that is used in the Mercury line onlyeven if the origin is derived from the FE engine line, just as there were EE engine for the Edsel line and LE enignes for the Lincoln line up. The designation is given when a particular engine is used in that model line only. If you reseach the Edsel engine line you will find that they used a 383ci engine that was based on the FE series that was called the 400 because of the torque rating, and that engine was only used in a Edsel, and so on and so forth.
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I respectfully disagree with your description Chipndale63. Reading this web site:
http://www.fordclassics.com/enginespecs.html
It looks like there was a 410 MEL and a 410 FE. Different engine families and it doesn't look like any part swap compatibility. Also the 383 was part of the 410 MEL family, not the FE family.
http://www.fordclassics.com/enginespecs.html
It looks like there was a 410 MEL and a 410 FE. Different engine families and it doesn't look like any part swap compatibility. Also the 383 was part of the 410 MEL family, not the FE family.
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Respectfully, I see where you are coming from, and I oppologize for the mis-imformation,I was lead astray by asourse that didn't know what he was talking about. Thankyou for setting me straight and also the link.
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It's cool. Actually, in doing the research, I learned something new. Ford had 2 different 410 engines, with different bores and strokes. I thought the 351s were the only engines that were in different families with the same displacements.
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