LA motor with no fuel pump boss?
I haven't messed around with LA engines in... well over ten years. And I've never had a Magnum on the ground in front of me to look things over.
There's no visible seam between the side of the block and the oil pan, it's that caked with grease.
There was some sort of an arrangement for the clutch fork and return spring that involved a length of nylon rope run from the frame to inside the bellhousing... necessitating removal and loss of the dust shield by the previous owner when he rigged up that beaut of a fix.
The carb had three return springs, anchored in two different places.
I still haven't found the electric fuel pump... nor have I discovered what the other two toggle switches cut into the dash operate.
Two of the four bolts holding the trans to the bellhousing were MIA, one of the bellhousing bolts was gone, another was replaced with a bolt that has a very thin head--and with the grease and the recess, we couldn't get it off while in the truck.
Several of the bolts around the engine were replaced with metrics, and there was a stack of washers used to make the power steering pump line up with the engine pulleys... and one of those bolts was also metric, but stripped/locked and we had to cut the head off to get the power steering pump off the engine.
So there was some weirdness at the front of the engine, combined with not seeing a block off plate, it got me wondering.
-Brad
Yeah. not one of my finer moments.Geez, I........
I haven't messed around with LA engines in... well over ten years. And I've never had a Magnum on the ground in front of me to look things over.
There's no visible seam between the side of the block and the oil pan, it's that caked with grease.
There was some sort of an arrangement for the clutch fork and return spring that involved a length of nylon rope run from the frame to inside the bellhousing... necessitating removal and loss of the dust shield by the previous owner when he rigged up that beaut of a fix.
The carb had three return springs, anchored in two different places.
I still haven't found the electric fuel pump... nor have I discovered what the other two toggle switches cut into the dash operate.
Two of the four bolts holding the trans to the bellhousing were MIA, one of the bellhousing bolts was gone, another was replaced with a bolt that has a very thin head--and with the grease and the recess, we couldn't get it off while in the truck.
Several of the bolts around the engine were replaced with metrics, and there was a stack of washers used to make the power steering pump line up with the engine pulleys... and one of those bolts was also metric, but stripped/locked and we had to cut the head off to get the power steering pump off the engine.
So there was some weirdness at the front of the engine, combined with not seeing a block off plate, it got me wondering.
-Brad