I think probably that would be the next step. Thanks all for your responses......Jim Kramer

Yes they all have a radius that slides on the face of the TO bearing, but this " slant " is on the perpendicular plane to that radius. I tried to show with my pictures the amount of that " slant " compared to a true 90 degrees from say the face of the pressure plate. I realize that how I'm explaining this might be somewhat difficult to understand and I appreciate your taking the time to understand it........Jim Kramer 

I built a 390 for my 67 Mustang two winters ago using parts I had on hand and ended up with about an 11.75 to 1 motor so I decided to try running pump e85 as kind of an experiment. It's been more or less satisfactory on the whole. 26I used a Carter high volume mechanical pump, and converted a 735 "U" carb I had which being vacume secondaries gave some problems on the dyno, but once sorted out gave almost identical numbers to the motor with a 750 dyno carb and race gas, 490 hp and 500 tq. My fuel tank is stock, all the lines are steel or braided Aeroquip. I used a replaceable element fuel filter. How it works.....It runs fine, maybe a little hard starting. Corrosion has been minimal. A very small amount in the carb, maybe a little more in the fuel filter housing, ( which is aluminum ). The motor will still ping at lower rpms under load, so I have a 10 degree retard switched in the MSD, and run that a lot of the time when cruising and such, ( giving me 26 degrees ). I think the inconsistency of the pump e85 has something to do with this. And the milage isnt too bad. I've only got a couple thousand miles on it buy I've checked it several times at 9.5 to 10.5 with spirited driving. Not sure I would do it again if I was building from scratch with all new parts mostly because if the limited number of stations available with e85, even here in Iowa, but it really doesn't work too badly........Jim Kramer   

No  kidding . I'll be damned. I've talked to him many times, ( I live maybe twenty five miles south of him ), and would see him at many of the local show/cruises. I sure wouldn't have expected this as he seemed pretty young and healthy. What a bad deal . I sure hope the best for his family and friends.....Jim Kramer

In Nevada Iowa can pretty much repair anything cast iron. Been around for many decades. Years ago a friend sent them a high-riser head that had two broken chambers and when they came back you honestly couldn't tell which chambers had been repaired.

If I recall properly, the first of the 67 full size 427 cars got the long tube manifolds, however after that Ford decided to cheap-out and put the Fairlane manifolds on them, causing some complaints from the new owners. Ironically today the Fairlane manifolds are worth more than the long tubes are.........Jim Kramer

I measured the plenum depth...4.33/2.32 for the K, 4.28/2.26 for the J, measured as near to the center of the opening as I could eyeball. I couldn't see a lot of difference in the pushrod hole centerlines. As close as I could measure they were both 2.12/2.13. The only thing I can see for sure is the plenum depth that while small is defiantly there. There must be some more extensive internal differences, but I'm not clever enough  to discern them........Jim

I can't tell ant difference