Thanks, Doug. So can anybody shed light on my engine?
Block Casting:
GM 48
3693374
10
Serial Number:
N324874CAL
...Chico
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:13:20 -0500 Doug Pewterbaugh
<dpewter@email.msn.com> wrote:
>On all 216's the sheet metal pushrod cover goes up over
the spark plugs
>(extends above the top of the block onto the side of the
head); only VERY
>early 235's do the same. Later 235's (like after 41 or
so?) have a shorter
>pushrod cover that ends at the top of the block.
>
>Also, look at the block casting (raised in cast on lower
right side of
>block) & serial (stamped on flat behind distributor)
numbers; there are a
>lot of us on the list with tables to decode.
>
>Regards,
>Doug Pewterbaugh
>dpewter@msn.com
>Denton, TX
>49 3104 216 5-Window
>-----Original Message-----
>From: chico woodhill <chico.woodhill@zensearch.net>
>To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 1:27 PM
>Subject: [oletrucks] 216 or 235?
>
>
>>Silly question, but I'm looking at a '49 half-ton.
>>Everything in the engine compartment is sprayed black.
How
>>can I tell if the engine is a 216 or 235?
>>
>>..
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