Engine bracket question
Is this the driver's side? If yes then
See now yer getting it; to install a 318 bracket on a 360 with the bracket behind the ear ; that is exactly what has to be done; just fill that space with a spacer and try again.
But if this is the P-side then the bracket is for the other side because the biscuit needs to be on the front edge of the bracket.
Take a look at the bracket in post 39. That is a driver's side bracket. You know how I know that? because it will put the biscuit towards the radiator.
Go back to post 29; those brackets on that engine, are both correctly installed behind the ears; and on both sides the biscuits are offset to the front; and the frame-side studs are on the lower half of the biscuit face..
If you have a 318 D-side bracket, mounted behind the ears, it will look like your pic in post 40, and you have to fab a spacer to take up the slack; some guys use washers.
If you can't get your parts installed like that, then your brackets and or your block, are not compatible. And I haven't run into that,so IDK
Waitaminuit, something's wrong here. Tell me if you can see it. The pics of the on-engine brackets are correct. The D-side biscuit is correct. The P-side biscuit is not correct for an original A-body. The D-side biscuit has been forced into that unnatural angle by the curvature of the bent bracket behind it.
I can tell you that the pic of the brackets is somehow mirror-image reversed. I didn't catch it until I put the images side by side. The bottom two brackets on the RH side of the pic are for the P-side, and if you have a bracket that matches it with the holes as in the pic, then IDK what that bracket is for, the biscuit mounting holes are in the wrong place. I imagine you can make it work by redrilling the holes in the correct locations.
As for the D-side brackets on the LH side in the pic. The mirror image makes them impossible to use in your A-body.
Is this the driver's side? If yes then
See now yer getting it; to install a 318 bracket on a 360 with the bracket behind the ear ; that is exactly what has to be done; just fill that space with a spacer and try again.
But if this is the P-side then the bracket is for the other side because the biscuit needs to be on the front edge of the bracket.
Take a look at the bracket in post 39. That is a driver's side bracket. You know how I know that? because it will put the biscuit towards the radiator.
Go back to post 29; those brackets on that engine, are both correctly installed behind the ears; and on both sides the biscuits are offset to the front; and the frame-side studs are on the lower half of the biscuit face..
If you have a 318 D-side bracket, mounted behind the ears, it will look like your pic in post 40, and you have to fab a spacer to take up the slack; some guys use washers.
If you can't get your parts installed like that, then your brackets and or your block, are not compatible. And I haven't run into that,so IDK
Waitaminuit, something's wrong here. Tell me if you can see it. The pics of the on-engine brackets are correct. The D-side biscuit is correct. The P-side biscuit is not correct for an original A-body. The D-side biscuit has been forced into that unnatural angle by the curvature of the bent bracket behind it.
As for the D-side brackets on the LH side in the pic. The mirror image makes them impossible to use in your A-body.