'78 F250

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Brought home my chassis from the blaster today. I covered it with a tarp and had to dodge rain showers on the way home. I made it without getting wet and now its safe and sound inside. I have one cab mount that I need to patch up before I start painting.






I resolved the oil pan dilemma with a new pick up. But now for more illusive 351M/400 trivia. I like to align the timing marks with TDC before I install the heads. So I tried to check the balancer with the timing marks before I assembled the front cover and pan. I misplaced the pointer from the 400 so I cleaned up the one from the 351. This one mounts to the pass side at 11 o'clock. The 400 marks are from a truck with factory air and are on the drivers side at 1 o'clock. The rubber in the 351 balancer doesn't look very good and has started squeezing out. I've not given up on finding the misplaced pointer yet. And after doing a bit of research, have found that the "M" series share the same 28 oz balance balancer and flywheel as early 302s and 351Ws. I think I have a spare one of those somewhere also. Just need to find it...