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1991 engine swap

From : scott

Q: i have a 1991 full size 1/2 ton truck 4+4 - automatic it has a 318 throttle body. the motor is old and tired besides that i need more power for pulling a trailer. i would like to swap it out for a 360. does any body know if this is an easy or complicated swap. what should i expect for trouble. any ideas or suggestions thank you mechanically this is very easy you need a 360 left side engine bracket $7.00 @ the dealer in the mid nineties when i got mine and a new or rebalanced torque converter. as to the electronics i dont know. i may still have a 1991 360 intake and throttle body. .

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From : scott

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From : bigironram

on sep 20 1111 pm bassfishin...@msn.com wrote on sep 20 724 pm diamond dave sjester...@yahoo.com wrote on thu 20 sep 2007 152117 -0700 larryd larrydyke...@yahoo.com wrote chrysler transmissions didnt use vacuum modulators makes them great candidates for super and turbocharging. good thought though tranny fluid makes great clouds of white smoke.- hide quoted text - another white smoke source can be brake fluid being sucked in thru the power booster if the master cylinder is leaking badly out its rear seal. only seen this once in 25 years of brake work. yea you guys really have some great info and ideas...tomorrow ill stop ovr his house and i will pull off the vacume line going to the brake booster and i will plug it and see if it quits smoking..he doesnt really work on anything but hes learning...i do most of the work on his truck for him....i do know that it uses brake fluid perdy bad....i figured it was just rear brake cylinders leaking it.....he has to put that special silicone stuff in it....thanks alot and i will check it out....you guys really are awsome..thanks again ok well i put new intake manifold gaskets and a different manifold on the motor..before i put the gaskets on i made sure that the manifold fitted the angles and everything of the heads..it fit like a glove...absolutly perfect..it did have oil inside the old manifold that i took off..should it be therei put everything back together and shes still smokin like a b*tch...what should i do nowthanks still white smoke or blue it just started smokin out the tailpipe very bad he runs it to and from work and it burns about a quart of oil a day.....head gasket valve seals what could it be lets see a fresh rebuild and its burning a quart a day...broken oil rings .