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[dennis112]

You are getting good advice from today's posters.

I used a 89' 351w block and 69' 351w (and 289) accessory parts with no issues. All 351w's are 28oz balance so your 69' 302 stuff is good to go. On the front, use which ever style best suits your radiator--use the appropriate year's balancer, timing cover, pulleys, and water pump. You will need to use one year's parts or the others. Do not mix and match or you will have some frustrations.

The early alternator adapter for the 351w still comes up for sale on ebay--saw one last week.

 

[OUFan22]

D.Hearne,

I think I will be better off by using the timing cover off of my 302, use it's balancer, pulleys, and flexplate. That way I can use my 302 water pump and pulleys. Does that sound like the best approach?

Where in south LA do you live? I moved to Lumberton 2 years ago (actually started working in Beaumont 2 1/2 years ago) from the Tulsa area. I am fairly new here and spent my entire life until recently in the Tulsa area. I am in the Wild Horse Mustang Club here in Lumberton. We sometimes do things with the Cajun Mustangers in Lake Charles.

 

[OUFan22]

You are getting good advice from today's posters.

I used a 89' 351w block and 69' 351w (and 289) accessory parts with no issues. All 351w's are 28oz balance so your 69' 302 stuff is good to go. On the front, use which ever style best suits your radiator--use the appropriate year's balancer, timing cover, pulleys, and water pump. You will need to use one year's parts or the others. Do not mix and match or you will have some frustrations.

The early alternator adapter for the 351w still comes up for sale on ebay--saw one last week.

Thanks. I already have an alternator spacer. I got it from a fellow club member. He went to a serpentine system and will let me use any of the parts he has. I will just have to get a power steering pump bracket spacer.

 

[D.Hearne]

Thanks. I already have an alternator spacer. I got it from a fellow club member. He went to a serpentine system and will let me use any of the parts he has. I will just have to get a power steering pump bracket spacer.

We're not talking about the alternator spacer, but the piece that bolts to the head to move the bolt hole back down to where it would be on a 302, with it's shorter deck block. The Windsor's block has a 1.3" taller deck, that moves the head up a corrosponding amount, and this affects the position of the bolt hole where the alternator bolts to. The spacer affects the alternator's position away from the head and affects the pulley's position and alignment with the other pulleys. I'm in Opelousas, 20 miles north of Lafayette.

 

[OUFan22]

We're not talking about the alternator spacer, but the piece that bolts to the head to move the bolt hole back down to where it would be on a 302, with it's shorter deck block. The Windsor's block has a 1.3" taller deck, that moves the head up a corrosponding amount, and this affects the position of the bolt hole where the alternator bolts to. The spacer affects the alternator's position away from the head and affects the pulley's position and alignment with the other pulleys. I'm in Opelousas, 20 miles north of Lafayette.

What I meant was to say was that I already have the adaptor bracket so I can use my original alternator bracket. It's the one you are referring to which has two holes for mounting to the 351W head and a built in spacer/threaded hole that the top alternator bolt mounts to.

 

[OUFan22]

We're not talking about the alternator spacer, but the piece that bolts to the head to move the bolt hole back down to where it would be on a 302, with it's shorter deck block. The Windsor's block has a 1.3" taller deck, that moves the head up a corrosponding amount, and this affects the position of the bolt hole where the alternator bolts to. The spacer affects the alternator's position away from the head and affects the pulley's position and alignment with the other pulleys. I'm in Opelousas, 20 miles north of Lafayette.

This is what I meant to say. I have this piece.

http://photobucket.com/albums/a23/OUFan22/351W%20Rebuild/?action=view&current=AlternatorAdaprot.jpg