350 Buick in a Jeep

[mltdwn12]

A guy stopped over this weekend with a 70 Jeep pick up, I forget what they were called. Good shape, not a bad looking truck. It came with a 350 Buick in it. Tight fit, but it's there! His water pump failed and took out his radiator and fan shroud. He wanted to know if I could fix the shroud. Anyway was the 350 the biggest engine they put in the Jeep?

[BBBB64lark]

The Jeep "J" series truck, referred to then as the "Gladiator" was originally introduced with just 6 cylinder engines I believe in '63. The first V8's used in Jeep trucks was a Rambler 327 introduced in '65 through '67/'68. It was replaced with the Buick 350 for a few years, '69-'71 and then replaced with the AMC 360 which was the standard option V8 until the full size Jeep truck stopped production in the late 80's. I remember hearing some Wagoneers had special option builds that used the AMC 401, but I cannot personally confirm that. I had a few '66/'67 J series trucks with Rambler 327's and converted one to Buick 455 power using parts from a '69 350 truck. They are fun old trucks.

[sean Buick 76]

I would swap in an electric fan from a Lincoln mark 5... Too bad about the rad though.

[N360LL]

The largest engine in a Jeep truck from the Full-sized Jeep family; i.e. J-series truck, Wagoneer, Grand Wagoneer, Military versions was the AMC 401. The 401 was introduced as an option in 1974 and continued thru 1978 officially. There is an occasional rumor that some 1979 model year vehicles have 401's in them but...

The 401 was backed up by a TH400 with an adapter plate in most if not all cases from Jeep. The AMC/Jeep version TF727 transmission took the place or the TH400 and is the following years.

The AMC V-8 family and the Buick NON-NAILHEAD V-8 family share a lot of similarities in design architecture and I assume that is/was for two reasons. First, AMC would have lower engineering R&D costs; and second, it could be shared with the Jeep and Rambler lines as well.

There are several members on the board who have 455 powered Jeep Wagoneers and J-trucks.

[maze]

I have a 72 buick 350 motor, and Im lookin at a jeep comanche 4x4... is it at all possible to mate the two..?

[Paintworks]

I've got one in my '67 M715!

[mltdwn12]

Cool truck and looks like lots of room to work under the hood!

[urbancowboy0307]

I think someone has squeezed a Viper V-10 into a jeep wrangler, not exactly a factory option however......