[Mike_The_Grad]

That's kind of what I was thinking was needing to happen. It's either a th350 or th400. I asked him to send me a picture. He lives about 20 minutes away from me. But when I pull his small block out the trans and transfer case is coming out with it and going to the shop for rebuilding on both units anyways. So I'll have the trans shop beef up what they can. I'm friends with the trans shop owner so it shouldn't be too bad to do. My buddy doesn't have a lot of experience with these trucks. So I'm kind of his eyes and ears through all this. I told my buddy we should just pull the cam and put in one that we know would be more in line with what he wants to use the big block for. Plus it'll give us the opportunity to check out the internals. I have boroscope I plan on putting into the spark plug holes. Plus check main and connecting rod bearings. And timing set.