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Re: [oletrucks] How can you tell!

To: Joe Clark <jclark1@utk.edu>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] How can you tell!
From: Grant Galbraith <trks@javanet.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 12:36:03 -0400
Quite right, but be careful, some early  235 dipper engines have the short
side cover as well. Best to check casting #.

Grant
50 Chevy 3100
52 GMC 150

Joe Clark wrote:

> Steve:
> Yes, that usually works but some of the early 235s may have had
> the old style valve covers too.  Also people (like me) put the old
> valve covers on them to disquise them as a 216.  Probably a better
> way is to look at the push rod cover.  If the sheet metal cover
> comes up and over the spark plugs, it's a 216.  If it doesn't, it's a
> 235 (although people have been know to use this disquise as well).
> Joe
> Joe Clark
> Southern Appalachian Field Laboratory
> USGS/Biological Resources Division
> Knoxville, Tennessee
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

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