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Re: [oletrucks] Motor ID

To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Motor ID
From: Claude <cramey@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:26:10 -0600
So my 3756519 casting is a 58-62 283 and the F0130C is Flint Jan 30 (of 
some year?) and a 170hp 2v. I have no idea where the double camel hump 
heads came from.

Cool?
Claude
http://home.earthlink.net/~cramey

Joe Garcia wrote:

>How about posting the block #'s on the back of the engine just behind the
>head "on the drives side".  This will give you a general list of years the
>motor was used.  The best information would be off the flat tab of the block
>just in front of the passenger head.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bobby D Keeland" <bob_keeland@usgs.gov>
>To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 12:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Motor ID
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>>Thanks to everyone who has answered parts of my question about a motor ID.
>>I know that the heads were purchased separately from the block so who
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>knows
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>>what they came off of.  I appreciate the firing order infor, but what
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>about
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>>the other numbers on the intake?  I'll look for additional numbers on the
>>block as I seem to be missing some info.
>>
>>BobK
>>51 3600 5-window (in pieces)
>>Arnaudville, LA
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>>                      "Jim (Deacon) and
>>                      Karen Magill"              To:       Bobby D Keeland
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><bob_keeland@usgs.gov>,
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>>                      <dnkmagill@wtxs.net         oletrucks@autox.team.net
>>                      >                          cc:
>>                      Sent by:                   Subject:  Re: [oletrucks]
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>Motor ID
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>>                      owner-oletrucks@aut
>>                      ox.team.net
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>>                      02/03/03 12:32 PM
>>                      Please respond to
>>                      "Jim (Deacon) and
>>                      Karen Magill"
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>>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
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>>Bobby D Keeland wrote:
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>>>I've never been able to make heads or tails of the web sites I have
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>found
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>>>for ID of a chevy engine so I'll ask the combined expertise of this
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>>group.
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>>>I have what is supposed to be a mid-60s 283 that has been sitting for
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>>many
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>>>years following a complete rebuild (never run after rebuild).  The
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>engine
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>>>was taken from a 1965 Pickup, but it may not have been original? This
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>>past
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>>>weekend my dad, brother and I checked and sure enough the motor will
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>turn
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>>>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
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>>plug
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>>>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
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>>I
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>>>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).
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>These
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>>>numbers were at various places under the valve cover.
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>>>                                               ??
>>>Intake            18436572          The 7 and 2 are educated guesses as
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>>the
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>>>area
>>>                                    was damaged by past grinding
>>>            8788244
>>>            GM      2
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>>>            1282
>>>
>>>      Any help is most certainly appreciated.
>>>
>>>BobK
>>>51 3600 5-window (in pieces)
>>>Arnaudville, LA
>>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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