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Re: [oletrucks] Motor ID

To: Bobby D Keeland <bob_keeland@usgs.gov>, oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Motor ID
From: "Jim (Deacon) and Karen Magill" <dnkmagill@wtxs.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:32:13 -0600
Bobby   My charts show the same as yours and I would think the heads could be
original by having the same years of application.  The numbers on the intake
18436572 is the firing order.  Deacon

Bobby D Keeland wrote:

> I've never been able to make heads or tails of the web sites I have found
> for ID of a chevy engine so I'll ask the combined expertise of this group.
> I have what is supposed to be a mid-60s 283 that has been sitting for many
> years following a complete rebuild (never run after rebuild).  The engine
> was taken from a 1965 Pickup, but it may not have been original? This past
> weekend my dad, brother and I checked and sure enough the motor will turn
> over (by hand with a pry bar across two bolts on the harmonic balancer).
> Inside the cylinders/heads looks fine (when looking through the spark plug
> hole).  We got the following number and wonder what we really have.  Can
> anyone take the time to help?
>
> Block       3849852           seems to indicate a 283 from 1957-66
>
>       This wide range of dates is not very helpful.  I think that we may
> need to find additional numbers that may be convered with paint.
>
> Head        V1
>             GM13
>             3795896
>             K143
>
>       The heads were not the original head on the above block. As far as I
> could tell this indicates a 1963-65 283 head with 60cc chambers, but I
> cannot tell what they originally came off of (if that is possible). These
> numbers were at various places under the valve cover.
>
>                                                ??
> Intake            18436572          The 7 and 2 are educated guesses as the
> area
>                                     was damaged by past grinding
>             8788244
>             GM      2
>
>             1282
>
>       Any help is most certainly appreciated.
>
> BobK
> 51 3600 5-window (in pieces)
> Arnaudville, LA
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