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D90E-6015-E3A Z BELOW THAT HAS A 8E23

This is a 79 block but I've tried lineing up the pulleys that came with it and the don't line up. The pulley's are v belt and it had what looks like an early model water pump on it. I bought a front cover for a late model 302 and a 79 water pump, which goes to the driver's side, and the pulley's won't line up. I tried to put the early model water pump and its the same thing. Do I have the wrong pulley's, wrong timeing cover, what???

Also I've been hearing that this motor is a 50oz and then bubba tells me its a 28oz motor and I'm going freaking nutz!!

I know I should have done more research into this but you know I got the car and just had to go! To top all that off the 351 I was going to buy for dirt cheap go sold before I could buy it.....what a day
 

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I have seen a couple of different thickness of front balancer on 302's and that might be your problem.Take a straight edge and measure the difference in offset between the front of the balancer and the mounting surface of the water pump.Then go to a wrecker and grab the pullies off something with the same measurement.302-351w-351c should all interchange as far as bolt pattern and center hole size but watch out for the early 3 bolt pullies.If you don't have power steering then that might be a problem as well as the manual steering cars I have seen used a different water pump pulley without the deep backspacing of the regular pulley.
 
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steel1212 said:
D90E-6015-E3A Z BELOW THAT HAS A 8E23

This is a 79 block but I've tried lineing up the pulleys that came with it and the don't line up. The pulley's are v belt and it had what looks like an early model water pump on it. I bought a front cover for a late model 302 and a 79 water pump, which goes to the driver's side, and the pulley's won't line up. I tried to put the early model water pump and its the same thing. Do I have the wrong pulley's, wrong timeing cover, what???

Also I've been hearing that this motor is a 50oz and then bubba tells me its a 28oz motor and I'm going freaking nutz!!

I know I should have done more research into this but you know I got the car and just had to go! To top all that off the 351 I was going to buy for dirt cheap go sold before I could buy it.....what a day
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Your problem isn't with the block. It's with the accessory drive setup. You need to get all the accessories from one motor, i.e.: timing cover, water pump, and all the pulleys. The block casting #'s have nothing to do with your problem, other than you're relying on them to tell you what car it came from. The casting # doesn't necessarily mean that the block came from a 79 car, it could have been installed in a pickup truck, Lincoln, mustang, or any other Ford or mercury vehicle produced from 1979 to around 1984 ( when Ford revised the blocks to use one piece rear main seals.
 
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The numbers would help me to figure out if the motor is a 28oz or 50oz motor right? The idiot that sold me my clutch/flywheel assembly goes by parts numbers and they don't tell him which weight he gave me and I want to make sure I have the right flywheel/dampner for the engine.
 
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most likely it's a 28 oz/in motor, but could conceiveably be a 50 oz/in too. If you can access the crank, that would be the surest way to tell.
 
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what would I look for on the crank to tell me?
 
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The casting #'s on the counterweights
 
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