1978 302 Serpentine conversion

The most important thing, is that the water pump fits!
- the water pump must match the timing cover (e.g. problems with mechanical fuel pump if you change the timing cover)
- the water pump sets the position of the plane where the serpentine drives
- the water pump needs to have the right rotation direction
In my opinion there is no need to do that, especially if everything is working and it is still original.
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I swapped an explorer 302 in a 74 Mustang II (which has the short engine bay because of the radiator support beeing diffrent to the later models). I did the swap, because I knew that the explorer 302 front dress is the shortest one available on a 302 and I could get this engine cheap. But it has many downsides. Esspecially I don't like using an electric fuel pump... And i had to do everything custom. Which is fun (to me... partially), but consumes many hours.

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Get the water pump and all brackets. There's minor differences in the timing cover water pump area between standard and reverse rotation. So you should just get all brackets and bolts and note where they go and swap it all over.