Are these the wrong swap mounts for a Magnum?
Happy New Year FABO! I had some time to get to the point of no return on my Slant to Magnum conversion today. The slant is out and I modified the driver's side perch as per the instructions on the Schumacher kit. That all went fine, but when I started to bolt the mounts to the Magnum block, that's when I ran into a problem.
The engine is a 5.2 Magnum and this is what i ordered because I read somewhere (hopefully correctly) that the Magnum engines use the 340/360 mounts. It's a little hard to read because the UPS sticker pulled off some of the ink, but it' says "73+ A,B,C,F,M,J-Body Slant 6 to 340/360"
Here's a photo of the page from the instructions showing how the mounts are supposed to bolt on
The passenger side went on just fine
But the driver's side mount doesn't fit
I can attach it like this, but there's almost 3/8" of gap at the forward boss
If it's as simple as buying/making some spacers and getting a couple longer bolts, that's not a big deal. My concern is that the mount won't line up with the perch in the K-member. Should I have ordered the 318 conversion mounts instead? I'll try calling them tomorrow, because I'm sure they're off today. Any advice would be appreciated.
Happy New Year FABO! I had some time to get to the point of no return on my Slant to Magnum conversion today. The slant is out and I modified the driver's side perch as per the instructions on the Schumacher kit. That all went fine, but when I started to bolt the mounts to the Magnum block, that's when I ran into a problem.
The engine is a 5.2 Magnum and this is what i ordered because I read somewhere (hopefully correctly) that the Magnum engines use the 340/360 mounts. It's a little hard to read because the UPS sticker pulled off some of the ink, but it' says "73+ A,B,C,F,M,J-Body Slant 6 to 340/360"
Here's a photo of the page from the instructions showing how the mounts are supposed to bolt on
The passenger side went on just fine
But the driver's side mount doesn't fit
I can attach it like this, but there's almost 3/8" of gap at the forward boss
If it's as simple as buying/making some spacers and getting a couple longer bolts, that's not a big deal. My concern is that the mount won't line up with the perch in the K-member. Should I have ordered the 318 conversion mounts instead? I'll try calling them tomorrow, because I'm sure they're off today. Any advice would be appreciated.
