Thanks 👍

Glad you are enjoying it!

It’s probably my fan on the ceiling of the shop! I’ll try to remember to shut it off before I film

@@MattKubik1791 I had to make sure it was more than one video. I’ve abused my ears so much over the years, my ears already ring in the silence.

The 352 & 360 had the same crank & rods. But the blocks were different. The 352 had a 4 inch bore. The 360 had the same block as the 390 & 410. Witch was 4.050 bore. The 390 & larger FE engines used a shorter but heavier rod than the 352/360 rods. The 406 was the same stroke crank & rods as the 390 but again it had a different block. It had the same bore size as the 428 witch was 4.130. Then the 427 had the same stroke crank as the 390/406 but had a even bigger bore at 4.230. The 410 & 428 had the longest stroke crankshaft at 3.98 stroke and were the only external balance engines.

@@jesseduke694 I thank you for that. I lived up in the cascade mountain area growing up as a young man and really thought I knew my engines since I was tearing them up as fast as I put them together and lots of times swapped a piston an rod as is into another engine and would go again thinking that those engines were different c.i. an actually they most likely were all the same as in the 352 and 360. I know it was around 1960 when I was a doing most of this cause we had a old air strip that we set a light tree up and held races for a short while. Thank you for the straighten out,,, I did take a ford truck motor from the seventies into the machine shop and we turned it into the 427 with said bore/stroke and built blind as this man was telling us what was what. I do know I seen the no. on the packages and they were as I said parts sent from suppliers for a 427 engine we were building into a mint 77 highboy and it was black on black, factory clean as close to perfect as they ever come. It had factory bucket seats and a console with fords heaviest four speed transmission that you would of seen in a car. We had the stickers and build sheet for that truck and it came just as I described. I called it a name that fit for a once in a lifetime truck. I lost it and everything I had when I got hurt while I was building the truck from a accident not related to all this., I can tell the story but its long, its been over with since 2010 so my memory is not as sharp.. I got hurt in 05 but doctors and what not drug me clear on out and I lost my hard worked for built myself home and shop. Now I am curious as to the real story on the block as I have over many years only seen maybe three but two for sure that had those ribs over the block on every cylinder on inside .... . gave the impression of a wave in and out ... I am serious as a heart attack that not one thing here is stretched for a good story. I think of good times and some of my worst over that truck, home, land and all. I still live in a cabin in the woods that is so small, it would of fit in my old home bathrooms.... well the living area as me a Batchelor had my laundry, mini pantry and the oid toilet area

@@morgansword sounds like a place I would like to live! I also have a high boy. Mine is a 76. The blocks that have the ribs you describe are usually like a industrial block considered to be good blocks. The mirrored "105" blocks are also good blocks. They are cast in a different foundry & usually found in the mid 70's pick up trucks as 360's & 390's. The have a extra saportive rib inside around the mains. FE's are considered old & out dated but I love them. There great engines & have achieved some of the greatest racing victories in history.

@@jesseduke694 You nailed it right off and I have to agree that it must be a industrial thing as ford was heavy into that back then. Alaska is a place that just about anyone can make a go of it. Seems to be plenty of work. Property of course has seen some rude increases but its still doable. If a man has a little money and some old equipment he knows how to operate, you can take back the land from the mud. Lots of spruce brush with timber on the small side... any thing millable to thirty inches on the butt. Lots of birch as well and then the real pretty cotton wood that ain't good for much.... swamp filler. If a guy lays down the "carpet stuff" as can't think of the name of it .. then road building ain't bad. Mostly surface water but good water at a hundred feet. I looked for property in birch and then went down fifty feet and built me a reservoir by letting them pump it hard and build a cavity under ground. I put in the submersible pump, and used as much water as I could and within a few days the water was clear and cold. I did put in a pump protector so I didn't run that pump on the dry and I never ran out of water. I just couldn't run the water on sprinklers forever as that would use up all the water quick enough but it refilled quick enough for me at about a gallon and more per minute.

To a point yes.

Glad you enjoy it!

That’s kinda an old wives tell I think, I’m sure if you were going to store one for a long period it would be best to support it or stand it uo straight. But just to lay one down for a few days on its side won’t hurt it one bit.

@@MattKubik1791 Thanks!!!

This 360 had 390 4v marked on the piston. I did some looking and apparently most 360s were assembled with pistons that were originally intended for the 390 4V engine. As for them being mixed in the same engine I don't know. Maybe its just what they had when they assembled it or maybe 2 were replaced under warranty or something of that nature.

@@MattKubik1791 Thanks Matt, that's interesting, according to my vin plate my truck was assembled late 1970 and listed and sold early 1971, so maybe they were scapping together what was left on the workshop floor at the end of 1970 😂😂. I am looking forward and will be watching out for your next vid down here in New Zealand. Cheers Pete👍.

@@MattKubik1791 that’s true. I would get a 390 crank and rods and make it a dished piston 390. You can put 427LR and 406 2,08/.1.63 valves they will fit right in a 020-.0.030 overbore. No one will complain.

​@@fenatic7484they are not dished pistons. 360s use high compression 390 pistons. Flat top with 4 valve reliefs

Out of Oklahoma. I also have a good relationship with the machine shop from when I did diesel repair work. I have brought him countless 6.0 powerstroke heads over the years.

None doing it the conventional way. on my ultimate highboy I changed the front of the frame to superduty frame rails and used a superduty steering gear. I think I talk about it in the first video. I did all that work before I started filming for KZfaq videos. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e9SZd5OSsb_QoYE.html

390 rotating assembly would be what I would do. Remember you have to change the rods too when doing a 390 change over. For the heads I used promaxx heads on my 428 in my ultimate highboy project. I didn’t have any complaints about them other than they use non standard valves. Not a big deal if you get the complete heads but I got the bare heads and ended up having to order all the other parts other than springs from them.

428 only way to go.

Very good point!

@@MattKubik1791 I think this might be a bore issue. I've seen where the bore will be like an egg...

It is the engine in the Harbor Blue Highboy I sold.