I am having better luck with the parts people, the key was/is not to mention "Lincoln" just as some have said to ask for parts for a 1960 Ford 332 HD Truck and give them the big truck applications...do not even mention that it is a Lincoln Engine.
I ordered a distributor from a 1964 292 and with the old gear on the new distributor it will work.

The project is coming along I will look for directions on and study up on posting pictures and throw some up. I am going ahead with the 332 and keeping the 3208 cat/allision in reserve for now.
These old buses are neat and addictive.
Thanks for all the help..

Rick

 

Yeppers, we definately need pics of this project. I remember about 3 years ago I was out on one of my road trips looking for old salvage yards and what not and came across an old Vista Cruiser bus I think it was called. The roof line stepped up about midway and had tinted glass in it. Really a neat old bus and this guy was converting it to a motorhome, although he was trying to do it on a nickle budget and it showed. Still remember the suprise I got when we walked into his shop and there sat a 40 foot bus. Wasn't expecting that at all!!

 

Hey 69supercj,

It was a Greyhound SceniCruiser. The Vista Cruiser was an Olds wagon (see That 70's Show). They were cool !! I remember riding on one in the mid 60's.


Rick 45,

I have a '56 332 and a '63 302. The easiest way to ID the HD Y-block is the thermostat housing: faces forward on the 272/292/312; faces up on the big boys. My info says they'll take a lot of over-bore. They are very heavy; I blew the seals in a lift trying to get first one. It was bending my four leg engine stand stripped to just a long block (no intake, exhaust or accessories). The diesel might actually weigh in lighter than the 332.

I was gonna mention the "Don't say Lincoln" thing, but you figured it out (See you are learning). I knew about the distributor swap, and I heard/read something about using early Olds intakes, but I don't have any info on it. (Yet!) Anybody else heard of this ???

The Hydro-Boost systems were also on any 70-80's light truck or car with the 350 diesel (an Olds engine). I have one on a diesel '85 Cutlass and I took one off a gas Chevy wagon at a junkyard. I don't know how the gas one came to be - it looked factory. They are available aftermarket [url=http://www.hydratechbraking.com/ [/url] or hydro-boost - Google Search , but they're not what I would call affordable.


Jim

 

I've heard of it. I've seen a picture of a claimed swap but have yet to see one in person. I don't know enough about the Lincoln or Olds to know if the picture was bs or not. Apparently all that has to be done is to mill the intake so the angle matches the heads. I'm sure there will be other smaller issues with hoses, and such.

 

the olds intake is close but cut on a different angle at the ports. you'ed have to make a adaptor plate. ports line up pritty good. royce used a set of hilborn inj. for a olds on his mermaid, 57 merc. but they are seperate plates. he just had to drill some extra holes to make it fit.

 

I had an '85 Chevy crew cab dually 454 with the TH400 and it came wiyh the Hydro Boost system. But like any power assist, when the engine quits you no longer have a power assist.

 

I actually still have at least one, maybe two hydro-boost units, one from my 78 Olds Delta 88 diesel (totalled by a drunk sailor) and one still residing under the hood of an 81 Buick LeSabre I am getting ready to junk. If some one wants either let me know.

 

85 Lebaront2 : How much for the Hydroboost units?

The Olds intake swap is "Veeery Interestink" (Arte Johnson - Muppet Wiki). I'm gonna have to start looking around to see what kind of Olds intakes are out there.


Jim

 

you tell him you have a 332 and the year.we call it the lincoln engine but in a truck its a ford engine.

 

FE/FT have nothing to do with the engine you have. You will have to
advise the parts guy that this is a Y block. Especially a Y 302 they
think it is a 302 (5.0) I bet what you have Is in fact a 332 Im pretty
sure they were used up to 1963. I worked for my uncles bus line at
that time and we had several Marmon Herrington city buses that all
had 332 Y truck engines. tipical square bole Holly Carb rams horn exhaust
manifolds High mount fan/governor etc. However I have a 64 with a
292 Y and thats the last year for that then came FE FT 352s etc.

 

The FE and FT engine are part of the extended Y block family and were introduced in 1958. The big differences were the distributor in the front and the heads and intake as well as the internal oil pump. The engine the O.P. has been pretty much I.D.ed as a truck variation of the Lincoln engines of that era. A fairly common practice of all of the automotive manufacturers.