Gonna find there are very very few aftermarket parts for early (or even later) Valiants. We have to find good used.
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Gonna find there are very very few aftermarket parts for early (or even later) Valiants. We have to find good used.
The hydraulic lifter head is different. It takes a different valve cover. But the short block is easily converted by using a earlier solid lifter head. Just asking, but what's the fascination with the later engine?
Sounded like weight. The difference in weight will likely not make a noticeable difference. I would just rebuild the original early slant.
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Its a lighter block and rotating assembly isn't it? Do I need to do any modifications to the block for solid lifter? In your first post you talked through the oiling for hydraulic lifters, do any of those galleries need to be blocked off?
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I guess I'll need to pull it out and check it out before I make a final decision, if they are close and it really doesn't make as much of a difference as I thought it would, I'll rebuild the original motor
I think you are in for a much smoother time if you do that IMHO.
No, the two engines oil the same. Boy, that's really splittin some hairs saying one is lighter than the other. I don't believe there's 20 pounds difference between them.
I think that's a sound decision.
Is this a 904 auto? We have forgot to mention that the torque converter nose bushing is different size between early 225s and later. I forget which is bigger but you may have to either have a custom torque converter made or add a bushing to the crankshaft depending on which one is bigger. Another reason to just use what you know works in the car.
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Well I have a scale and both engines! So give me a week or so, and I'll post some specs!
67 and back has the small crank register, 68 and forward has the large one.
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Hadn't even considered that, it's the push button transmission, which I believe is the 904 like you said.
thanks Rob for the clarification. I'll forget it by the morning.
I believe you will find the biggest difference between the crankshafts. But by all means, please report back on that. I'd love to see some real numbers.
Yes it is so there is an unforeseen issue you will have to face.
It is. I have one just like in my transmission heap behind my shop. lol
I can relate. I'd forget who I am if I didn't see me in the mirror every mornin.
That does not help me. It is the wife screaming my name to do something I forgot that reminds me.
Does anyone offer that bushing to go from the smaller early TC to the larger crank opening anymore?
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could you not machine a bushing? if I'm thinking of the right thing, it's just the pilot bearing in the crank correct?
Correct. There use to be places that made it.
I think @Badvert65 Matt does. I tagged him so maybe he'll chime in. @Charrlie_S used to offer them, but I believe he said he was out of them the last I saw. I have ONE, but you caint have it. LOL
I LOVE your tag!
Not exactly. The pilot bushings are all the same. What we're talking about fits into the larger crankshaft register that the torque converter hub fits into. You put the bushing into the 68 and later crank register so that the 67 and earlier converter hub will fit into the register correctly.
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