Diz TheFiddler
Well-Known Member
Hey Folks,
let me tell you my story.
I bought a 360LA which ran in a offroad jeep until then. The guy said it is internally balanced, but google says every 360LA is externally balanced. The harmonic dampener at the front is for a internally balanced engine. The flexplate that came with it is symmetric too. But i never saw the converter.
So i assume this 360LA is really internally balanced, since it ran a while in that jeep according to the seller. And he said this was a military engine. They made internally balanced 360LAs only for military. Maybe thats the answer to the other strange thing here.
Today i checked the numbers of the engine. Its definitely a 360LA, but the casting number on its left side is 4006830. I found some casting number lists (which worked great for the heads), but this number is listed nowhere. And usually only the 440 big blocks had a casting number beginning with 400...
The heads are from 75-76 and have the number 3769974, by the way.
Im interested if you guys know something about that.
let me tell you my story.
I bought a 360LA which ran in a offroad jeep until then. The guy said it is internally balanced, but google says every 360LA is externally balanced. The harmonic dampener at the front is for a internally balanced engine. The flexplate that came with it is symmetric too. But i never saw the converter.
So i assume this 360LA is really internally balanced, since it ran a while in that jeep according to the seller. And he said this was a military engine. They made internally balanced 360LAs only for military. Maybe thats the answer to the other strange thing here.
Today i checked the numbers of the engine. Its definitely a 360LA, but the casting number on its left side is 4006830. I found some casting number lists (which worked great for the heads), but this number is listed nowhere. And usually only the 440 big blocks had a casting number beginning with 400...
The heads are from 75-76 and have the number 3769974, by the way.
Im interested if you guys know something about that.