Original engine/transmission
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We are going to need pics of the data plate engine and trans to tell you that.
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Ok, sorry for my ignorance, i get the plate part of it being in the glove box, but are there certain areas of the engine and transmission that I would need picture of....ie am I looking to match up serial numbers of some sort? I appreciate the help by the way!
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Nope just over all pics so we can see what is installed is the same as it came with. Example crame from the factory with an I5 now has a V8. The trans as good a side shot as you can provide.
And if the truck is Canada built the data plate may be on the drivers door pillar. So check both locations.
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With these old ford trucks there is nothing stamped on them to absolutely verify that a given engine and transmission were indeed the ones that it left the factory with. If the date codes on the cast parts line up from a few days to a few weeks before your truck was produced - that's about the best you can do. Dead giveaways would be date codes that were after your truck was produced or the year before is usually a bad sign, too.
Other than the Shelby Mustangs there were not too many other Fords from that era that did stamp a VIN number on the engine block. Possibly the Panteras.
General Motors did stamp a partial VIN number on the engine blocks and transmissions of a lot of their vehicles over the years so you can really get into the numbers matching thing with those a lot more so than most Ford vehicles. Other than the engine block and transmission and hidden body VIN stamps GM didn't stamp the VIN in other places that I've heard of. Differentials and carburetors, alternators and water pumps, etc. can all be identified for the most part similar to identifying a Ford part, but no VIN numbers on all the little stuff.
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Other than the Shelby Mustangs there were not too many other Fords from that era that did stamp a VIN number on the engine block. Possibly the Panteras.
General Motors did stamp a partial VIN number on the engine blocks and transmissions of a lot of their vehicles over the years so you can really get into the numbers matching thing with those a lot more so than most Ford vehicles. Other than the engine block and transmission and hidden body VIN stamps GM didn't stamp the VIN in other places that I've heard of. Differentials and carburetors, alternators and water pumps, etc. can all be identified for the most part similar to identifying a Ford part, but no VIN numbers on all the little stuff.
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With these old ford trucks there is nothing stamped on them to absolutely verify that a given engine and transmission were indeed the ones that it left the factory with. If the date codes on the cast parts line up from a few days to a few weeks before your truck was produced - that's about the best you can do. Dead giveaways would be date codes that were after your truck was produced or the year before is usually a bad sign, too.
Other than the Shelby Mustangs there were not too many other Fords from that era that did stamp a VIN number on the engine block. Possibly the Panteras.
General Motors did stamp a partial VIN number on the engine blocks and transmissions of a lot of their vehicles over the years so you can really get into the numbers matching thing with those a lot more so than most Ford vehicles. Other than the engine block and transmission and hidden body VIN stamps GM didn't stamp the VIN in other places that I've heard of. Differentials and carburetors, alternators and water pumps, etc. can all be identified for the most part similar to identifying a Ford part, but no VIN numbers on all the little stuff.
Chad
Other than the Shelby Mustangs there were not too many other Fords from that era that did stamp a VIN number on the engine block. Possibly the Panteras.
General Motors did stamp a partial VIN number on the engine blocks and transmissions of a lot of their vehicles over the years so you can really get into the numbers matching thing with those a lot more so than most Ford vehicles. Other than the engine block and transmission and hidden body VIN stamps GM didn't stamp the VIN in other places that I've heard of. Differentials and carburetors, alternators and water pumps, etc. can all be identified for the most part similar to identifying a Ford part, but no VIN numbers on all the little stuff.
Chad
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1960 F100/350 could have a 223 1V I-6 or a 292 2V V8.
223 has the intake/exhaust manifolds located on the left (drivers) side of the engine.
292 commonly known as a Y block, has the distributor located behind the carburetor.
Truck registered by its specific VIN .. The 4th digit of the VIN is the engine code. C = 292 2V / J = 223 1V 1-6.
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