Will the engine fit???
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Will the engine fit???
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Need to replace my p/u engine and want to know if this van engine will fit? <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ad_showthread_firstpost_start --><!-- END TEMPLATE: ad_showthread_firstpost_start -->
My 1993 F-150 302 engine has a hole in piston #7 and I need to replace the truck's engine. Will a 1989 van V-8 302 engine fit into my 1993 F-150 pick-up that has/had a 302 V-8? Will it bolt-up to to the bell housing? It has an auto transmission.
Need to replace my p/u engine and want to know if this van engine will fit? <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ad_showthread_firstpost_start --><!-- END TEMPLATE: ad_showthread_firstpost_start -->
My 1993 F-150 302 engine has a hole in piston #7 and I need to replace the truck's engine. Will a 1989 van V-8 302 engine fit into my 1993 F-150 pick-up that has/had a 302 V-8? Will it bolt-up to to the bell housing? It has an auto transmission.
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Those motors are almost exactly the same, it's a direct bolt-in just as it but you have to change the distributor drive gear, take the one off the '89 and put it on your '93 dizzy, and then use that with the '89 motor. That's because the '93 has a roller cam and the '89 doesn't, if you don't change the gear it will get chewed up. Your 93 should also use a remote TFI module while the '89 had a distributor mount TFI, another reason to use the '93 dizzy.
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i don't know if i would change the dissy gear myself they have to be set at the right distance from the bottom of the shaft and in my experiance every distributor has the hole drilled in a different place so where the hole in the shaft and gear line up might not be the right spot for the gear to sit....i ruined an msd pro-billet dissy like this but msd took it back under warrenty since they forgot to put a pin in the gear
that said i never fool around with stock distributors so factory ones could all have the hole drilled in the same spot but on all the aftermarket ones i have seen it looks like a 10 year old kid drilled a random hole and put a pin through it
that said i never fool around with stock distributors so factory ones could all have the hole drilled in the same spot but on all the aftermarket ones i have seen it looks like a 10 year old kid drilled a random hole and put a pin through it
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doesn't it have to be pretty percise on where it is mounted on the shaft though? the one i got msd forgot to drill a hole and put the pin in and i drilled a hole and pinned it in where i thought it was the right spot and the gear i guess was a little too close the bottom of the billet housing when everything was warmed up, only took a few hundred miles till the bottom of the housing had enough wear in it to be a problem, and the gear wined like a poorly set up diff
ever since then i havn't messed with gears on dissys i always send them out if they need a new gear
ever since then i havn't messed with gears on dissys i always send them out if they need a new gear
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