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Would it matter if I have the 5 pin box instead of the 4 pin?

The Chinese one is gone. I replaced it with a factory style one. Air gap on the pickup is right around .008 which is what my shop manual says is correct

1: If I understand correctly the box should ground itself to the body through the mounting bolts. Both are good grounds and I checked them with my test light. 2: I don’t have a volt meter to be 100% sure but at both the resistor and the coil positive the light on my test light is noticeably...

So I finally got my new 360 into my dart and have been trying to fire it up but have not been able to get spark. It had a jury rigged ignition/charging wiring job with a Chinese standalone distributor back when it had the 318 in it and I rewired it to be all factory Chrysler electronic style...

Well I finished the 360 yesterday afternoon! Got held up a couple days by the summit brand oil pan I bought, the pan rails were warped to hell so I exchanged it for a milodon one. Worth the price difference. Better quality and it’s baffled too. Today I’ll be starting on the 904 so I’m hoping...

The ductile iron ones have a wider “footprint” on the valve stem end of the rocker tip so I’m guessing they have more room for error so to speak and are more geared towards a heavy duty stock replacement type application. This not at all a race motor, just a truck 360 with a bit more cam, intake...

Well thanks for your help everyone, I’m gonna run my crane setup. I just figured both were free and if I could make these work they might make me a tiny bit happier with less weight in the valvetrain. I know these rockers will make zero difference in power but I believe there is no such thing as...

that’s where I’ve seen them before on small block fords. They used those in place of a more traditional guide plate setup.

the pushrods are pretty much in line with the arms. I’ve dealt with self aligning arms before but that was on a ford. I never messed with a shaft mount setup like this before.

Guess I’ll be using my crane setup then. That has everything with it and doesn’t appear to need shims/spacers.

If springs will work I have a complete set I can steal from my set of crane iron rockers. I’d just rather run these aluminum ones.

So I’m installing the valve train on my new 360 and my dart had came with 2 sets of rocker arms I could use. Trying to use the aluminum roller setup and the arms appear to be self aligning with the tabs on either side of the roller tip and spacers to keep the arms from contacting the shaft hold...

After a little more automotive detective work I figured out the compression situation situation wasn’t as bad as I had originally thought but still not great. Checking the piston at TDC i found that it was about .085 in the hole. So with a .039 compressed head gasket thickness and assuming a...

Well it appears I have reached an impass. These flat tops sit right at about .100 in the hole...so the cam I want to run will absolutely kill the dynamic compression in this thing and be a pig. I get 8.5:1 with a 70cc chamber and a .040 gasket thickness. So now I’m gonna have to call up the...

Yesterday I got the rod bearing clearances and ring gaps checked and the rods/pistons home in the block. Ring gaps were .013-.015 on the tops and .019-.020 on the second rings. Bearing clearances on the rods checked out at .0015 across the board. Pistons sit fairly far down in the holes still...