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Apr 17, 2011 | 12:18 PM

jaysonw81

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hey guys i have a 1967 ford 250 ranger that i bought that has a 460 in it.i dot the numbers off the heads d3ve-a2a my problem is i dont know what year the motor is anyone know how i can find this out. thanks

Apr 17, 2011 | 01:02 PM

D8chumley

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I was going to tell you to post it in the other forum but I see you have already figured that out. Good luck and welcome to FTE!

Apr 17, 2011 | 02:39 PM

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Wow, D3VE! Looks like it's a 460 that came out of a 1973 Lincoln Continental.

Apr 17, 2011 | 05:20 PM

LxMan1

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Welcome to the forum.
I have move this to the correct forum.

D3VE heads were used from 73 to 79 at least. It could be any of those years. They are pretty much the same 73-79. They are a good open chambered head.

Apr 17, 2011 | 06:42 PM

NumberDummy

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Originally Posted by n578md

Wow, D3VE! Looks like it's a 460 that came out of a 1973 Lincoln Continental.

D3VE doesn't refer to the fact that the heads and/or the engine is from a Lincoln, or even if it is a 460 engine.

D3VE is a foundry mark only...and that's it.

D3VE heads will be found in 1973 Ford-Mercury Passenger Cars w/429's / 1973/78 FoMoCo Passenger Cars w/460's // 1973/79 F100/350's w/460's / 1975/79 Econolines w/460's.

Apr 17, 2011 | 08:30 PM

PatsPOS

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Hate to pick nits, but I thought the only open-chamber 385 head was the D2VE head.

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Apr 17, 2011 | 09:02 PM

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D9te-an is the casting number off the block.what can u tell me about it.

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Apr 18, 2011 | 09:03 PM

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D9 means 79-and later. "te" means it was in a truck and "ab" means it had a revision to the casting.

Apr 19, 2011 | 06:02 AM

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D9 means 79-and later. "te" means it was in a truck and "ab" means it had a revision to the casting.

The D9TE-AB block was a running change that occured in some 1979 F100/350's & Econolines, 1980 and later.

Running change means there is no before/from a certain production date or serial number. Because of this running change, some 1979's have a block marked D1VE-A2B.

AB = original casting. Revisions would be A1B, A2B and etc.

T could refer to any series truck, Bronco, Bronco II, Econoline, Expedition, Explorer and etc etc etc. E = Engineering.

And, because FoMoCo is in-famous for replacing 10's of 1000's of part numbers every

year, you should not go by casting/engineering/part number prefixes to ID what the part fits or what year(s) it fits.