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paintman · 06-05-2018, 02:47 PM

Welcome aboard Cape!!! From what I have learned, the slant sixes have an inherent problem with the oil pump and cam gears meshing. The original stuff from the factory is bullet proof. The problem is when you use any brand of new cam or oil pump. The metals used today are inferior and the gears wear out. There seems to be the same problem with the plastic dizzy gears. There are a couple of work arounds I guess but they seem to be pretty involved. One would be to eliminate the cam driven gear and go with a sump style pump driven off the crank snout with a belt. Thats kind of a pain in the ass because I would need to make up some kind of front motor plate. The other is to just use the existing old oil pump and have the matching factory cam re-ground. To me spending 5-6K on a rbuild only to put a 30 year old cam and oil pump seems kind of stupid to me.

The dizzy gear is even more involved. First off MSD has nothing for the slants. So that means eliminating the dizzy and going with some sort of coil pac set up fired off a computer. That also means some kind of jury rigged crank trigger That is way beyond my ability or desire just to have a slant six in the truck.

I have looked into a Poly 318 but the after market support is ZERO. My other option is a standard LA 318.

I have also looked into a straight 6 4.0 out of a jeep. There seems to be alot of performance parts available. Only down side is I don't know what kind of automatic transmission I could run without using oall the computer crap.

The hemis seem to be out of the question because they are way to wide for the narrow frame. The Hemis look to be even wider then the slant 6.

If I wanted to follow the hip crowd I could just try and cram an LS in but they are just as wide as the the hemis.

There is always the endless choices of 273, 360, 440, etc. etc. etc. Now I know why everybody just goes the sbc route. Alot less headaches it seems.

The worse part is I have spent hundreds of hours of my free time on craigslist
trying to find something that would work.

06-05-2018, 02:47 PM	#3
paintman Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: washington NJ Posts: 769	Re: The 46 Dodge pickemup in NJ Welcome aboard Cape!!! From what I have learned, the slant sixes have an inherent problem with the oil pump and cam gears meshing. The original stuff from the factory is bullet proof. The problem is when you use any brand of new cam or oil pump. The metals used today are inferior and the gears wear out. There seems to be the same problem with the plastic dizzy gears. There are a couple of work arounds I guess but they seem to be pretty involved. One would be to eliminate the cam driven gear and go with a sump style pump driven off the crank snout with a belt. Thats kind of a pain in the ass because I would need to make up some kind of front motor plate. The other is to just use the existing old oil pump and have the matching factory cam re-ground. To me spending 5-6K on a rbuild only to put a 30 year old cam and oil pump seems kind of stupid to me. The dizzy gear is even more involved. First off MSD has nothing for the slants. So that means eliminating the dizzy and going with some sort of coil pac set up fired off a computer. That also means some kind of jury rigged crank trigger That is way beyond my ability or desire just to have a slant six in the truck. I have looked into a Poly 318 but the after market support is ZERO. My other option is a standard LA 318. I have also looked into a straight 6 4.0 out of a jeep. There seems to be alot of performance parts available. Only down side is I don't know what kind of automatic transmission I could run without using oall the computer crap. The hemis seem to be out of the question because they are way to wide for the narrow frame. The Hemis look to be even wider then the slant 6. If I wanted to follow the hip crowd I could just try and cram an LS in but they are just as wide as the the hemis. There is always the endless choices of 273, 360, 440, etc. etc. etc. Now I know why everybody just goes the sbc route. Alot less headaches it seems. The worse part is I have spent hundreds of hours of my free time on craigslist trying to find something that would work.