302 cu. in. Ford V8 Overhaul

Each of my okay guides seems to refer to costly information that I didn't know and no one told me. I have a 1984 Ford pickup that was losing a lot of oil out the main seals so it seemed like a good idea to pull it out, do rings, inserts and valves. A machine shop that I lined up to do the rebuild regemended a local shop to pull and reinstall the engine. The machine shop furnished new gaskets and oil pump but not a new pick-up screen. Everything went fine for about 100 miles on the rebuilt engine until a piece of carbon (about the size of the white part on the head of a kitchen match) that was trapped inside the pick-up screen went into the oil pump. It stopped the pump, twisted off the oil pump drive shaft, galling and egging a couple of pistons. I had to pull the engine again and fix the damage. The moral of this story is---Replace the pick-up tube and screen every time you do anything to a Ford's lower end. The tolerances are too close between the gears on the oil pump to allow anything to pass through.I don't know if 351's have the same problem as 302's but they probably do.If this was helpful information, hit the YES button below.