She is running again! Finally. My Sweet Southern Comfort '66 F-100 is up and running, with a 460/C-6 combo in place of her tired old FE. (She had a 3 speed overdrive until I swapped it out for a C-6 a year ago.) We had to move from SC to Maryland, and she blew the motor on the way, back in December of '04.
Now, I need only figure out the wiring for the turn signals and the rest of the steering column.
Some lessons learned:
Use an '83 - '86 oil pan for good clearance and slobber-free oil changes.
If going to a serpentine system, use a system from a truck, not a van. The PS pump is different, so you cannot use a truck PS pump and lines. In any case, use the brackets and pulleys from a truck engine, not a Lincoln one.
The passenger side serpentine bracket is still available fom Ford for $75. The driver's side is obsolete, but is available through Green's Obsolete Parts ($125). For an '88 460, that is.
The water pump sticks out from the front further than the FE pump; clearance between the radiator and the clutch front (heavy duty) is less than an inch.
Only a 460 water pump clutch fits a 460; you cannot use one from the FE or other engines. '80s and '70s 460 clutches will mount to the water pump correctly.
You must use a '70s fan on the fan clutch. An '80s fan is too big, and will strike the radiator inlet and outlet. I got a 7-blade off a '79 with a 400; it bolted up fine to the '86 heavy duty 460 fan clutch I am using. I could have used fans from SOME early Lincoln 460s as well. The center hole was not large enough on some of them. Crazy Rays south of Baltimore had a bunch of good ones.
The FE 4 core radiator seems to do fine for heat transfer without a shroud, but that is true so far only for extended idling and for short trips. She isn't insured or tagged yet, so I cannot drive her on public roads to give her a full and accurate stress test.
If you use the '70s 3 piece engine mounts (with perches), the transmission will bolt right up to the crossmember, and the driveline will not need to be changed. (I changed from a FE with C-6 to a 460 with C-6, and it all bolted up exactly the same.)
The FE fan shroud that worked well with the old 352 won't line up with the 460 fan. It sits higher; if I used a '70s radiator, it might work OK, but the '76 radiator I had was too tall and bumped into the hood.
Use the '80s thermostat housing and upper radiator hose. Cut 2 inches off each end, and the heat will form it to the correct shape. I had to use the '80s thermostat housing with the serpentine system. The '80s style angles upward; the '70's style is parallel to the ground.
I had to fabricate a bracket for the accelerator linkage. I used the '80s bracket as a stand, cut the clamp-type section off the FE bracket, and bolted them together. The FE bracket mount holes are different both in the location and the angle; it just won't bolt up to the 460 manifold.
Exhaust was different, but I just used the front end of the exhaust from a '77 F-250 and clamped it to my existing system, where we cutoff the pipes from the FE manifolds.
I'll add more as remember it!

 

congradulations and thanks for the information.

 

Good job bud.Had my doubts when I first saw it.

Congrats,
Joe

 

Way to go!

 

Awesome update on engine conversion especially serpentine belts; glad to here your up and running; to bad your farther away from me in Maryland now, still chugging along in clarksville.

Customcab

 

Excellent, Banjo!!!! Hopefully I'll get to post a similar living tale soon.

 

Very nice good job this could almost be a tech article

 

I knew ya could do it "BP". . . . GOOD JOB & congrat's

Altho I never used later model stuff myself, like serpentine belts or Oil Pan, that's good info. How do you like the way it sounds and drives with that sweet engine?

FBp

 

John da picker, I copied this info from the net, and didn't get the author to give the credit to. If you can use it, I hope it helps.

John

67-72 steering column pin out.

Big Connector:

White/Blue stripe: Right Front Turn Signal/Indicator on Instrument Panel Green/White Stripe: Left Front Turn Signal/Indicator on Instrument
Panel

Blue/Yellow stripe: Ground When horn Depressed

Red/Black Stripe: Brake Pedal Switch (12 VDC when brake pedal is depressed.

Blue: Turn Signal Flasher (Provides 12 volts to Turn Signals) Little Connector:

Green: Right Rear Turn Signal/Stop Lamp

Yellow: Left Rear Turn Signal/Stop Lamp



Connect the following color wires together.

White/Blue Stripe on steering column: Connect to White/Blue Stripe on big connector Green/White Stripe on steering column: Connect to
Green/White Stripe on big connector Black/Red Stripe on steering column: Connect to Red/Black Stripe on big connector Blue on steering
column: Connect to Blue on big connector Yellow/Black Stripe on steering column: Connect to Green on little connector Light Green on
steering column: Connect to Yellow on little connector