My 69

[M. Sage]

Eh, keep the drums. I'd go to a dual circuit master, though. Just redo everything at the wheels - shoes, hardware, cylinders. Use quality stuff. If you get the wrong shoes, it isn't going to want to stop. We always had the best luck looking hard and tracking down real asbestos linings...

 

[orbitup]

Eh, keep the drums. I'd go to a dual circuit master, though. Just redo everything at the wheels - shoes, hardware, cylinders. Use quality stuff. If you get the wrong shoes, it isn't going to want to stop. We always had the best luck looking hard and tracking down real asbestos linings...

I was going to pick up some shoes and a cylinder from Autozone tomorrow. Where do you suggest I get them from?

 

[chris211]

If you get the wrong shoes, it isn't going to want to stop.

Oh, that is an issue you don't have with disc... Sorry dude. I have a fleet of 27 trucks, and if one comes in with drums, they are going to discs...1967 - 2001

after that, all of ours have 4 wheel disc.

Drum brakes have a failure rate that is not exceptable.

edit: I know I spelled that wrong

 

[orbitup]

What year is the motor?

Line the pulley's up?

IDK what year.

The belt is squealing, and looking at it, the pulley on the alternator looks too far back. I'm telling you... this was a hack job.

 

[chris211]

IDK what year.

The belt is squealing, and looking at it, the pulley on the alternator looks too far back. I'm telling you... this was a hack job.

It may be some chevy/pontiac mix. That will be an easy fix since you are a smart person. Some folks assume GM is GM so I have 400 pontiac ...this steering pump off a chevy 327 should work. ... like I said, if you want to ditch the pontiac 400 let me know what year it is. I might want it.

 

[orbitup]

Tell me how to figure out what year it is and I'll let you know.

 

[chris211]

That is not my expertise...but one of my mechanics races nothing but pontiac....100% I will give him a holler and he will know every detail bout that motor.

 

[orbitup]

Thanks, just tell me where to look for numbers and we can figure it out.

Whith the way this truck has been thrown together I wouldn't hold out too much hope that the engine is that special.

 

[chris211]

Thanks, just tell me where to look for numbers and we can figure it out.

Whith the way this truck has been thrown together I wouldn't hold out too much hope that the engine is that special.

I just sent him a message...I bet money a pontiac 400 is well worth the effort...they stopped making the real ones several years ago.

 

[orbitup]

Thanks. Fingers crossed.

 

[chris211]

Thanks, just tell me where to look for numbers and we can figure it out.

Whith the way this truck has been thrown together I wouldn't hold out too much hope that the engine is that special.

12 years ago I was running a stage 3 buick 350 in a 1976 chevy truck. I had maybe 5k in the project when I was hit broadside and totaled. Insurance gave me 2k and the truck,,, I sold the Buick 350 for 6,500 k to the first buyer. and scrapped the truck for 275....

 

[orbitup]

My first car was a 77 Buick Skylark with a 231. I used to outrun a few V8's with it.

After I fixed it up a little.

 

[chris211]

My stage 3 buick come from a 68 skylark..That was a 350 with a factory 375 HP that was another GM motor with more HP than CID.

 

[orbitup]

Buick had it going on for a while. I drove a Grand National for a while and nearly killed myself a few times.

 

[chris211]

"tell him get the casting number off the block that will determine year" Hell I knew that...


What are the numbers on the block.

 

[chris211]

Buick had it going on for a while. I drove a Grand National for a while and nearly killed myself a few times.

Oh shit the turbo 6 ... hook those up with nitro!

 

[orbitup]

"tell him get the casting number off the block that will determine year"

Where is it?

 

[alexrex20]

It's on the passenger-side rear, below and rearward of the cylinder head, right where the block mates up to the bellhousing.

 

[alexrex20]

Nice truck btw. I want to build a '72 for a daily driver with a basic LSx like an LQ9.

 

[orbitup]

It's on the passenger-side rear, below and rearward of the cylinder head, right where the block mates up to the bellhousing.

thanks, I'll need a midget, a mirror and a flashlight to find it.