[383Ram]

Picked up another 454 last night. This one will have the cheap rering/bearing rebuild done to it and slammed in to get the truck running. The one being used for mockup needs a complete rebuild and full maching.

Anyways, some peliminary teardown looks like this may have been rebuilt once, but is still standard bore. Unfortunatly some water did get in--why people store motors outside i'll never know, but i think i can ball hone the light surface rust out of the couple of cylinders its in---its mostly up top past the rings. The heads didnt fare as well (peanut ports), they had all the rockers backed off but some water sat in the intake ports. I have my own valve and seat regrinding equipment so i can probably salvage them. This is an EGR motor so i am guessing it has to be after '75, my guess is early 80's buy the plastic oil cap and lower pulley that has 2 v-belts grooves and one serp belt groove on it. It was a carbed motor. EDIT: Its an 1985 carbed truck motor by the numbers.

So now i am on the search for some cheap rebuild parts, i'll finish tearing the shortblock apart and take it to work and use the super-sonic, blast-o-mighty powerwasher we have, LOL. The smaller parts i will put in our smaller hot tank to get clean.