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Old 03-18-2008, 05:49 PM
jaoneill jaoneill is offline
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2X what Swampyankee said and FWIW, having had ten or twelve Ford big block trucks of 70's vintage on the farm, I would recommend that you consider installing a timing chain and gears. PITA, three hour or so job but the timing chains tend to get sloppy at around 60-70K miles (which is when we typically bought them cheap because they ran like crap). At the time a chain and gears was less than $50; half a day later we would have a sweet running truck having paid only half what it was worth. They are thirsty devils but pretty much bullet proof if maintained.

Good luck,
Jim
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