My FREE 350 Motor Survived Thankfully !!!

[HotRodPC]

This is that motor I pulled from that kids truck a couple years ago and it ended up getting moved to my dads. Well, he didn't cover it GOOD as I asked him to do, and it had come uncovered for a few months. I figured it was fuct. Sure wasn't turning by hand when I picked it up back week before last. Got a strong battery and pulled the spark plugs today. It struggled for a second and there it went and turned over. I pulled the plug just in case it had water in it. As some don't know, water doesn't compress and you can bend rods with water in cylinders since water doesn't compress. (A starter likely not strong enough to bend rods) But I wanted all the water blown out of it. No water came out of any of the cylinders. It never did push oil up thru the oil pressure port though.

Drained the oil thinking there would be some water in it. Nope, No water in the oil either but it only had a quart in it. Poured 4 quarts of used oil from my last oil change out of the C20. Cranked it over about 6 times and BAM, oil squirting out of the pressure port.

I never got to hear this run before I pulled it. But it does sound as if it's got some good compression and the guy told the kid it had an RV cam in it and the kid verified it ran real strong but he never got to drive that truck since it need the trans rebuilt which I also got the Th350/NP205.

The headers didn't fit a 4x4 for ****, and someone pounded one of the tubes almost completley closed to fit around something. And sumbish, I'm trashing them anyway. I coudn't even get 2 of the spark plug off without using an open end wrench. I'm not using **** like that. It I struggled with it that much, imagine how much I'd struggle if it were mounted in the truck? So I'll need to find some exhaust manifolds and I'm thinking I'd like to use those C20 manifolds off the 85 C20 scrap truck for this motor.

I hope to have a full compression test ran on it tomorrow. The battery I'm using is on trickle charge for tonight. I hope to fire that motor up soon and check the oil pressure and hope it's in as good of shape as the kid said it was supposed to be from the guy he bought the truck from.

 

[bucket]

So that's from the truck you tore down the same time as that red Burb?

 

[HotRodPC]

Yep, and now I'm so fuggin pist. That red Burb was an 87 with a good RUNNING TBI 350, harness and all. I didn't have time to pull it and it got scrapped.

The red burb had a bad rear ring and pinion, the 80 pick up had a bad Th350. Other than that, those vehicles were running 2-3 weeks before I tore them down and scrapped them.

 

[bucket]

Pretty sure I tried telling you not to scrap them. Hate to tell you that I told you so, but...






































I told you so!

 

[HotRodPC]

That motor came out of an 80 K10 Pick up. I got the motor, the Th350, NP205, Crossmember, front and rear driveshafts, front 10 bolt 3.73 with Spicer manual hubs which I still have too, and a 12 bolt rear which I sold for $150 a couple days after I pulled it.

Oh, and I kept the 16 in 6 lug wheels just to have a spare set of wheels for rolling around the trucks on the property. I'll never use them Don't like them, but they hold air.

 

[RetroC10Sport]

I don't think time was on his side there.

 

[bucket]

I don't think time was on his side there.

I don't think it was either

 

[HotRodPC]

The Red Burb, I pulled the 4 core radiator, dual electric fan assembly, 10 bolt front with 4.10 and ARB Air Locker, The K case 700r4 that runs, cut the crossmember cuz the **** was so rusted up, I couldn't break the bolts loose, got the front driveshaft, the NP208 which I traded for the 32 spline NP208 to go with my A883. Since the ring and pinion were jacked up caused by bad pinion bearing, I did snag the Detroit locker unit out of the rear end, and also kept the axles since they were said to be chrome moly axles which I know for a fact they are aftermarket replacements but noway to verify they are chromolly.

The kid kept his 35 in Tires and wheels, since he had just spent $800 for the tires about 400 miles before the pinion bearing took a dump.

 

[HotRodPC]

Pretty sure I tried telling you not to scrap them. Hate to tell you that I told you so, but...





































I told you so!

yeah, I didn't have a choice. And if I had pulled the motor, the bossman would have kept it, so I'da have pulled it for him cuz he said he wanted it. But The ****** ripped me off enough, I wasn't doing FREE labor for the boss. I was more concerned helping the kid recover some of his money and getting them over the scale. He let me take what I wanted off the scrap pile in exchange I got them over the scale for him, and I did also replace some of the weight with some of my own scrap. But I still coudln't bitch. I got a ton of good **** for my labor pulling it and 45 minutes x 2 to haul them both over the scale.

I'd sure love to have had the Burb 4x4 frame now too. This Burb I have now would be on that bitch. It would have needed blasted and POR-15'ed but the frame was solid still. The sheetmetal was scrap. That truck spent alot of it's life on the beach and IN THE OCEAN between Corpus and Houston. The sheetmetal rust was all the way up to the 2nd door hinge in the door jambs. I was amazed the doors didn't fall off of it.

 

[HotRodPC]

Also, I wanted the matching front and rear bumpers off the Burb, but some other asshat came by and took the front bumper that was already pulled off WITH THE WINCH in it, and also took the fuggin ARB air compressor.

 

[HotRodPC]

My radiator in the 454 C20 had a seem leak. I've already installed his radiator in that truck and been using it for over a year now. Here is the dual fan. I haven't installed it in anything yet.

 

[HotRodPC]

Looking thru that pic folder, gives me a woody. I want to be using that **** so bad. This is why I'm looking forward to putting the K10 together, and acquiring a K5 or a K20 Burb.

 

[HotRodPC]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the 4in front lift springs. I didn't get the lift blocks in the rear, cuz I have some 2in lift blocks already and planned on using 3/4 ton rear springs with those 2in lift blocks and hope to net a level 4in in the rear.

And here is those ugly 16in 6 lug wheels I am only using to roll the truck around on.

 

[HotRodPC]

Someone needs to twist my arm and make me install this 700r4 in the K1500 in place of the Th350 I have in it now with the spacer to equal the length of a 700r4. That is the NP208 I've traded away for the 32 spline unit to go with the A883. And the driveshaft will be going in the 85 K10 and A883. I think.

 

[SlickGTP]

Glad that engine made it through...

A bit sad to see that the squares had to go across the scales though.