[budd01]

thanks guy for the responces, here where i'm at this morning, i'm pretty sure this guy is going turbo 400 but just to go over what was done to put the standard in, it looks to me like they took the bell housing off the 6 and bolted it onto the 396, they made an extension for the clutch fork, then because the whole thing sat to far back they did the weld on side mounts, this all worked till the motor gave out, so i think i should start a new thread on what happened to the engine but i'll ad a little here, the engine was only in the truck for 500 miles maybe and then dumped most of the oil out the dipstick tube, there was a PVC but no breather, i'm think it either blew a head gasket or burnt a piston, what else would put pressure in the base? ad to that when the engine warms up it has no oil pressure, so low the lifters start rattling, i'm wondering if this is and early 396 block with the wrong cam and crank bearings causing low oil pressure.