Slant crankshaft damper and pulleys

The damper fix is low risk if you also install the outer p.s. pulley, since the damper ring is then secured between 2 pulleys, so all it can do is spin and rattle if the rubber fails. But, my poly-filled damper will be sitting on the shelf for backup anyway.

As pishta might be suggesting, I thought of installing a 36-1 toothed disk while doing this job, for later EDIS spark timing. A youtube shows one on a slant. I have 2 such wheels, but both were too small for the slant. Both are ~4" OD, one an oops from that mod to my 273 engine, and the other a new Ford wheel ($10 ebay). Might work on my 383. A slant would require ~7.25" OD wheel. I don't think there is room to squeeze one in on the aft side of the damper. Of course, one could machine an aft pulley to serve that purpose, if not using it for AC. There also isn't an easy spot to mount a pickup sensor on the slant engine. On my 273, I mounted the pickup behind the w.p. pulley.

Everything is tighter on the front of a slant, since the designers had to get creative to to squeeze it into the alloted space. The water pump sits in a recessed block casting, with the bypass hose going up into the bottom of the head. They made one pulley groove integral with the damper. I don't think any slants had a clutch/fan, and no room for one in my car.