The casting # is for a 42 to 49 235. This engine is not a full pressure oiling
235, but the early
"high torque" 235 with dippers, used in big trucks.
Grant 50 3100
chico woodhill wrote:
> 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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