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hey Pat

did you get the Motor mounts and xmember worked out?

on to the rebuild





I had actually written the big block off at the moment in favor of a fully assembled small block, just to get the truck running for the coming summer with plans to build the 440 in the meantime. Unfortunately, tearing down the smallblock just to check it revealed some really disastrous rust that would have required even more dough to rebuild than the big block. So the 440 got the nod, and I'll have to still straighten out the engine mount situation. I have decided to save myself some time and aggravation though by finding a suitable mated 727/np208 as opposed to trying to custom fit the 2wd 727 and divorced np205. I'd still like the 205 for the power the big block will be putting out, but I'll have to live with a 208 for the time being.