i had my heads done - cut seats , new s/s swirl polished valves , new high rev springs , bronze guides and viton seals , and surface , studs and special head gaskets ! ? THOUSANDS ! - but well worth it . did a bigger oil pump alloy sump with windage tray and sump baffels and upgraded pick-up !

nice rebuild, appreciate the attention to detail. I worked in Ford shops for 20 yrs . Love everything about the FE´s. ALWAYS used no hardening sealer on freeze plugs.Enjoyed watching your assembly, took me back to the seventies.

Looking good. If you build an other FE, make sure you put the crank sleeve on first, then tighten the timing chain cover. The sleeve centers up the seal on the crank. Helps with premature wear on the front seat. Keep up the good work.

$2300 for what you got is a great deal my friend. That was a hell of truck when it was new. I had over 300,000 miles on mine when I sold it and it still looked and ran great! I wish I had it back...

RTV under cork, NO! The cork will often slip on that sealer. Cork is best with weatherstrip adhesive or other hardening adhesive, or nothing. Even better is to use the RTV only and don’t burn engine for 24 hours to let the thicker RTV bead cure.

the four hundred you spent on the heads is the best money you spent

I agree with Zachpeterson the block should have been decked to get a good seal.

I guess he did something since it’s 3 years old, lol, I’m blind so I didn’t see it.

I got 1965 Thunderbird that needs 390 restoration. If anyone near Wausau or Eau Claire wants to do it for me shoot me a replay.

Buy the correct oil fill cap you can get them with the hole on top and they are only a few bucks

Using those pistons from the 360 without a dish is worth about half a point of compression over the stock piston . Too many people think that Right Stuff is the answer for everything and I have seen too many engines that failed because some genius over did it and the screen was plugged with silicone . Cork and rubber type gaskets only work if you use them properly . Cement them to the block put a little oil on them so they expand after you use a little goop on each corner . Valve cover gaskets can be used over and over without leaks if you glue the gasket to the cover and not the head after coating the head side with a little oil . Everybody has their own way to do things and I know what works for me .

Copper head gaskets . I love the old Ford Edsel Engines. Skirted block design. Nice video

Nice vid...we built one about like this in 1980 for my ‘ 69 F100. Never could get enough traction!!

A little info for you ,the PVC valve actually goes in the top of the filler cap for the oil it uses a filler cap on both sides and the PVC goes in the one toward the rear of the engine leaving the one in the front to fill with you shouldn’t have to use that RTV to cover those slots meant for the filler cap hope this info was helpful on your great build enjoyed watching you work looks really good

I had the same issues that your having back in 80’s. I bought a 4 barrel intake to replace the two barrel one. I had to get a riser for the carb, rework the throttle linkage and I replaced the factory air filter with a chrome one. I had such bad luck with it all I ended up putting the two barrel setup back on it. I never really got a noticeable power boost out of that 4 barrel anyway.

Excellent video and probably the best quality video on the tube out there! Love the calm and methodical voice of yours. I am doing a middle-way restoration of my F-250-73 with a 200 000 miles old 360 in it. Working on the assembly here these days. Seen so many videos of engine rebuilds and your´s really made me happy :) Mine was leaking about everywhere, only thing I done different is the intake manifold seal. Using black RTV only on the seal, cork seems to be a failure for the most ppl doing this....at least after some time. Well done my good sir :) Greetings from Norway!

Really informative video. Once again, you are doing an awesome job. Thanks for posting. I have been following this build from the beginning and I just want to say I appreciate you taking the time to show us and bring us along on your progress! I'm a big fan.

I think I would put old school points distributor back in it. I just like the look of the smaller cap. And when you got that round coil can off to side just gives that old nostalgic hot rod look. Lol. But any way looks like it's coming together nicely.

Great video for us Ford guys 👍🏻🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This is an awesome build video. I really appreciate how you acutually showed each step. Thank you!