It’s happening... First haul!

getback wrote:Wow little turks LOL Cool you got the job done and made it home without a hitch as in tow  Probably an exht. leak does it have those doughnut gaskets in it ?

roddie wrote:

Cribbs74 wrote:I had a real bear with getting the pulleys to line up. My friend told me I would, but I blew him off, sure enough nothing lined up. Went and bought new bolts and spacers and modified them to make the alternator line up, but when I put on the power steering pump it too lined up to the wrong spot.  The engine was in a 1977 Cordoba at one time and I used those pulleys because I was sure I couldn’t use mine. I thought the crank pulley mounted differently and were not interchangeable. In a desperate attempt to make it work I decided to pull off the crank pulley on the 318. After I removed the inch of grease out of the hole I noticed it was a bolt on unit just like the Cordoba. So after that waste of time and money it now works as it should.

I hadn't read all the posts in this thread.. and while back-peddling, "this one" struck a nerve on more than one count. Firstly; your issues with pulley alignment, and then.. your reference to the donor-engine being from a 77 Chrysler Cordoba . I knew a girl who had a Cordoba. I'm not sure of it's year.. but it had a "Lean-Burn" ignition/fuel system that as I remember; was problematic. Her car had the 400CID V8.

My only experience owning Mopars is with two Dodge B-300 (1-ton) vans; one being a 1975 cargo style.. and the other; a 1974 camper-conversion. Both had 318CID V8's/automatic-transmissions. The camper-conversion had a turtle-top.. to permit standing/head-room.. but it was the same shell as the 75. Both had dual hinged-doors with windows; side and rear. The camper had air-conditioning via an engine-mounted system.. which I'm guessing was Mopar equipment. The A/C vents were in a console  mounted between the lower-dash and the engine-cover. I like having "gages" as opposed to idiot-lights. Mopar usually gave you gages.

Oh.. and concerning the pulley alignment issues..    I know all about how frustrating they can be...



My 1975 Chevy "Monza" 2 + 2. GM's 1st year H-Body. There was also a Buick variant in the "Skyhawk".. an Oldsmobile "Starfire" and Pontiac's Astre/Sunbird. Most were available with the "iron Duke" 4-cylinder or the 3.8L (Buick division) V6 gasoline engines. The Chevy was available in 75 with a 4.6L small-block V8. The later Chevy Monza "Mirage" had a 5.0L (305) V8. In between 1976 and 77.. you could find the V8 cars with 5sp. manual gearboxes.

Being in the sub-compact class; the GM H-Body cars were relatively heavy (2800 lb. curb-weight) for their size.

I bought my 75 with no powertrain.. and later sourced a 5.0L (305) auto-trans. from a full-size Chevy station wagon. Engine/trans. was a bolt-in.. (once I'd sourced the V8 mount-plates..) Then the fun started with sourcing all of the other V8/H-body specific power-train items.

The engine-accessory brackets/pulleys. GM's early system is known as the "short" (water-pump housing governed..) type, up-through the mid-late 60's; at which point; GM started switching-over to what's known as the "long" type of accessory/pulley drive. It's like "black and white".. relatively easy to source brackets.. etc..  

The V8 option uses the later (long) water-pump with a red-headed step-child pulley offset.. requiring V8/H-body specific brackets for the alternator and power steering pump.  

One more thing Ron.. Somewhere here; you mentioned wanting to replace the wood in the bed. I think it was "Doug" (Crankbndr) posted recently on how pressure-treated lumber ruined his flat-bed trailer by corroding the steel with whatever the wood is treated with. See if you can find some old barn-board reclaimed-stock; preferably oak. Sure it's heavy.. but it wears like iron. You can use some added functional (chassis) weight in that bed.. now that you have a nice fresh engine. I'll bet if you put a pair of Mickey Thompson's on the rear.. you could lift the front wheels when launching.