Piston swaps and brake bleeding

["B & T Roddick" <1roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are the ones who were considering the piston swap...  It would have been
+ .030"  10.5 to 1 forgings made for a '69 383,  fitted to a '64 413.  Guess
that won't work.  Back on the shelf they go....

Bill & Tami Roddick
Port Orchard, WA
1964 Imperial Crown 4 DR HT
1972 'Cuda 340 (Tami's Toy)
1988 Cherokee Laredo
1995 Concorde

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Foster" <monkeypuzzle1@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Piston swaps and brake bleeding


>
> Hello All;
>  From what I understand it would depend on whether you were talking about
> the wrist pin height of an early 383 verses a 413. The early 383 and 361,
> built between about 1958 and 1962, shared their blocks with the 413 unlike
> the later 383 and the 400, but the pistons are probably just as hard to
find
> as the 413 ones so the arguement is pretty much moot. With bearings and
> gaskets, however, you are very much in luck for an interchange.
> Merry Christmas
> Arran Foster
> 1954 Imperial Newport
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