Aside from the actual motor and stuff needed for it to run you will need a new pto and possibly drive line, recommend going to a four point mount. I'm sure some more experienced guys on here can add more details

WOW sounds like i might be better off rebuilding the olds again ?  ,.. thanks for the info guys ..pretty sure i spun a bearing andkilled the bottom end ,..so  i found  some bearings on Jegs but not exactly sure what i need .. i found cam-main-rod bearings ,.. is that all the bearings i would need providing that all the actual parts are not damaged  ?



if i was to have a shop do a rebuild (just new bearings-hone- and check everything out and assemble)  what is a normal price i am looking at spending ?  i have never in my life had a car motor worked on so im not sure what im getting into yet 

by rebuild i mean that i tore the engine down to the block , crank, and pistons ,.. had the heads checked out , and then i put it back together with new gaskets , seals , new cam and lifters , new oil pump and shaft , new rocker arms and push rods , new starter , new distibutor  , new timing chain and gears , new 750 cfm Q-jet carb (for sale BTW  PM me ) , new water pump (yea i know LOL ,  but its the berkeley packajet setup )

so all the work putting it back together is on me ,.. the reason i did all this in the first place was because somebody in the past removed the thermostat in the motor and the first run i had the boat out it was blowing water in my oil after a few hard runs and the motor never heated up , so i lost oil pressure and broke a lifter and hopefully i didnt crack a head   :-(


after the "rebuild" the motor didnt even have 10 minutes of run time on it , i never even had a chance to break the new cam in before it locked up ,.

and its not a high HP application , just a stock olds 455 from a car that has the "J"  heads and "F" block,..small log ex system and a stock pump setup ,.so i think something actually failed in the motor from not having a thermostat and blowing water in the oil ,.probably killed a bearing ?? . i never knew it had water in the oil untill i drained it all out and assumed ( ) my temp gage was broken since it read 110 * but the block felt warm to the touch , so i never knew the thermostat was missing untill it was too late




 

i am 1000 %  sure that my plumbing is correct , my setup is whats know as the "Berkeley Packajet combo" , you can see in this video exactly how its setup ,this is was right after i got it running and right before i took it for the "death run" ,.. sounded so good and crisp here ,.. never sounded this good or responsive since that day ,.. and i never got to run it actually that hard,. just a few seconds of WOT  while playing with the carb on the lake ,.. made a few of those WOT  runs (few seconds) while the motor was still cold   and it finally shut off and started backfiring when i tried to start it

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it was built to be a thermostatically controlled system  fed by the jet pump ,.this system has a waterpump and thermostat just liek a car motor , dont ask me how i finally figured  out this was the coorect setup LOL  ,. better yet ill go ahead and tell ya for the newb laugh  ,.. at first i thought the plumbing   wasnt correct  so i started to experiment with buying uneeded stuff and experimenting and searching google ,.. while experimenting i ended up cutting the blades off my water pump and JB-welded the fuking inside of the thermostat housing because i thought it was rusted through and feeding water to the block and through the intake mani at the same time causing my gaskets to blow,.. so with my "experimenting" my idea was to have the plumbing setup just like you are talking about ,.but this was the "poor boy but still looks factory ideerr  )... it worked pretty good but the logs got way to hot   . little did i know that there is supposed to be a thermostat in there and the part i JB welded up was for excess water to go to the logs to cool them down in a single pass (no preheating of water ) IMO i kind of like this setup alot better than your normal jet boat setup for a couple reasons ,. mostly because it keeps the block more full of water (IMO) amd allows the motor to run a constant temp no matter if you idle all day or run it WOT  pulling skiiers


here is a link to the original "Berkeley Pack a Jet" owners manual if your interested

http://www.berkeleyjet.com/instructions/455_packajet_manual.pdf