[68 TT]

Not much progress recently but the acquisition of my 67 Suburban pushed things along. I decided I wanted the bigger low RPM motor in the K20 so I pulled the 400 out of the stepside and put it into my 4x4. The fresh 4-bolt 350 that was in the K20 is now in my 67 Suburban.

I am in the process of freshening up the very low mileage rebuilt but greasy and partially ant infested 70 Chevelle 350 that came out of the Suburban for the stepside. All the oil on it came from a grooved balancer snout hosing down the whole undercarriage and engine and a pushed out rear intake seal. Other than the small amount of ant nest sand in the intake ports and the thick coat of grease on the outside it is in great shape. Very clean with nice crosshatching still clearly visible on the cylinders, nice tan clean burning cylinder residue on the valves and no sludge anywhere but in the bottom of the oil pan from the 33 year old oil that was still in it from 1979 when it was parked. Pretty amazing for how long it sat untouched. I expected barnacles in the cylinders and rats nests in the heads.

The auto trans has been eradicated and the original 3-speed manual trans will be going back in.

I will be converting the truck from the as optioned leaf spring rear suspension to trailing arms after the engine & trans are installed.