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if the drive and transom plate are "85, a standard 4.3 alpha type should drop right in. You will need the v6/8 bellhousing on your replacement engine, any of the late style perimeter bolt couplers will work. The one with the extended snout is for the later style Gen 2 drives that has one extra o-ring on the input shaft. You are going to have to install new wood/glass for the motor mounts to sit on. I don't have the installation guide handy for the new motor mount locations. Easyest thing to do is measure from the centerline of the bell housing motor mount holes fwd to the center line of the side mounts. Then transfer this measurement to thye stringers using the transom plate motor mount holes as your reference. If I run accross a complete V6 laying around, I'll take a measurement off of it. BTW, uunless you find a deal on a motor, you are going to have way more in the v6 than you would have in the 3.7. Also, I have worked on those 3.7 for over 20 years, thats the first time I ever heard of a lifter burning out.