Thanks for the help Mike, that seems about right... overall, it shouldn't be
any harder than just putting in a new 318, huh? Not that I need to do that
any time soon, my `92 318 just rolled 100,000 this past friday, still
running great and getting 19 MPG on the highway at 85 with 3.90s in the
back!! Not to shabby!! It has run a best of 10.53 in the 1/8th... not sure
how that is... its 4x4, long bed, with a 170lb tonnue (sp?) cover on the
back, weighed in at about 4300lb with me in it. What do you think?? There
were 2 short bed 2WD 5.4L Ferds there that only ran 10.33 as a best....
TJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Clark" <mike@mikesdakota.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Internal-External Ballance Stuff
> > Ok, when you all are talking about swapping the 318 for a 360, what is
all
> > the talk mean about the internal/external ballancing portion of it??
> > Specifically for an outo trans, cause thats what I have... how is it
done,
> > stuff like that....
>
> Someone stop me if I'm wrong....
>
> It's sorta like balancing a tire. The difference is where the weights
> are put. In the 318 this is all done on the inside, the crakshaft.
> The flexplate and vibration damper are neutrally balanced. For the
> 360 the crankshaft is unblalanced (perhaps because of the longer
> stroke??) so you need a special 360 damper on the front and a
> specially balanced flywheel or flexplate on the rear to balance the
> assembly out as a whole. I'm doing this exact swap this weekend in my
> '93! I too have an auto so I had to get a flexplate with counter
> weights on it specificaly for a 360.
>
> I think this is the basic idea. I may have some of the details wrong
> though.... hey at least I tried, no one else responded to your post.
>
> --Mike
> www.mikesdakota.com
>
>
>
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