oh ya no damn truck smiley
and now we have 500 posts ! Woo Hoo for that!

Who'd a thunk?....500 posts!
Lol

you can still weld the 360 weights on the convertor while the thing is still in the truck. Been there done it quite a few times. People seem to forget about about the external balance issiue. I've had to cut the weights off when people swapped the opposite way.

A 904 is every bit as good a tranny as a 727..wish they made a case to put behind a big block ..i'd never run a 727 again.

yea, if it doesnt have the weights, im not sure if im going to weld them on or put a flexplate (friend has a used one) in. I may remove the trans anyhow to make sure the flexplate currently on there is tight. Besides, the tranny to engine bolts arent all there so its less i have to take out .

727 and 904 flex plates are different. Make sure you have the right one before you get it in there and half bolted up...don't ask me how I found that out.

i've always heard that the 904 wasnt as strong, and also seen quite a few 904's in there very broken state, due to a bit too much horsepower

Well, i FINALLY got it started this morning---wasnt the battery at all---the timining was WAY to advanced. When i pulled out the distrib, i noticed the drive gear slot was not where it was supposed to be, so i moved it 2 teeth to properly line it up. Then i set the timing mark on the balancer to 10 BTC. When i finished rebuilding the distrib, i lined up #1 tower and rotor, which should have in turn allowed me to start the motor with 10 degrees BTC timing.

WRONG. Im guessing the timing chain is off, once i got the thing running and timing light on, it showed 72 degress advance i had to turn the distrib so far back, the advance cannister was just about touching the firewall, i had to turn it back so far to get it in time.

Sooooo, i guess i will be pulling the front cover sometime and putting a new chain in anyhow seeing this on has about 10 degrees worth of slack, and then timing the cam and crank correctly.

I still have to get under this thing and pull the shield so i can see if the converter has weights on it, it just vibrates waayyyyyy to much only tapping the gas off idle in neutral........

makes me wish the truck could talk and maybe say where its been and how all that happened

You and me both..........

Stay tuned for more of the "As the '85 stepside turns"

IIRC,that truck had a 340 in it before he bought it. The 360 was thrown in as an afterthought.Came out of a van I think.Good luck 85, I'm sure it'll be a fun truck when you get it all sorted out!

Yea, im not mad it has a 360 in it instead of the 340, i like 360's better. Im just twisted up at it literally being thrown in---loose/missing bolts and all----i wouldn't sell something that shody, but thats just me, i like all the bolts in and tight where they are supposed to be.

BTW, this truck came full circle. Some people i know bought it from VT into NY, then sold it to the gentleman in PA, where then the 340 was removed, then i buy it from him and bring it back to NY. The people i know are only about an hour away from me, go figure---i never knew they had this truck.

But all in all, im still happy with this purchase, i guess i got spoiled because even though the dart i traded away needed body work, it always ran good right from the get go.

It was a shop truck for a speed shop wasn't it?I remember the ebay listing and drooling over it then! Keep at it! You've got a col truck there in my humble opinion!

The people i know that had it own a used car lot/motor building business. They built my friends F.A.S.T. motor. They are very keen mopar guys. Acoording to the son, they just bought it and drove it a bit, then sold it in carlisle.

Yea, i really like the truck, but stuff like this just sets you back. I'll keep digging at it though.

Funny how vehicles move arond like that.
I had a Dart in Missouri (where I lived at the time) that went to California, and then to Michigan and now is 5 or six blocks from where I lived in Texas...small world sometimes!
O.G.

spittin popcorn?...lol

Kinda similar story here. I had a car cd player that I bought in Idaho. After I moved to Texas, I sold it then moved back to Idaho. Some time after that, I was in a pawn shop in Idaho and there was that same stereo. Small world indeed.

Or things like a friend was house shopping, and his STOLEN car was in the garage of a house they looked at!!!!...Got his 78 low mileage trans am back promptly!...it had been missing 3 years.
Oh well enough about weird stuff on my end, lets get back to TRUCKS!!!!!

Woo hoo TRUCKS! Where's that truck smiley!?

is there a picture on here of the 85? i scanned through here but couldnt find one , did i miss it?

hey OG how you feelin? i havent seen you on here for a bit , our schedules must be different again

You mean these pics? I think it was on another post.