Hi 56effie and Janet5150 : I posted before and you were two of several folks that tried to help me ID '63 F100 left in woods 20 years ago, 90 miles away. I just was up there and got number over oil filter: B9AE 6015F A shop said this is a '55-66' 292, like many of you said. (Water drained clear!)

The kicker in all this is a bluish metal tag afixed to the block by a rebuilder in Albeque NM in 1972 (47K ago). Hammered in are the numbers .010 .010 for the bearings (000 for cyls so I guess rings Std. !) But also hammered are the numbers 392 yes 392 ! Shop name ended in O so I called AERA Amer Eng Rebuldrs Assoc. and asked for shops there ending in 'O'. I phoned Danco (I think) and he said a Lobo went out of business years ago from bad and/or shoddy work. I guess methamphetamine was around then too and made the guy pick up a '3' punch instead of a '2'.

Talking about not caring to do careful work, once I saw a shop-man toss my rear end (truck's, not mine) ring & pinion gears on to a counter thick with metal filings; I would have taken the ten seconds to brush off, at least. He said they will settle to bottom, Still... good use for a piece of newspaper.

 

The motor is a 59-60 variety 292.

 

I remember, this topic. Glad you made it back to where the truck is. There is no doubt it is a 292 Yblock engine. I remember originally you had gotten information from Slick ****** truck site, they are more a group interested in the ford truck body shell for 61 to 1966 body style more than Yblock. Some Yblockers are there, but it's only by chance that there 61 to 64 model may have the 292 engines. But anyway, now you know what you have. That 10 and 10 stamp from the builder should mean 10k undersize main and or rod bearings and two zeros would as you say suggest no bore done and the 3 a punch goof, but it says the crankshaft was turned or is a crank kit that was turned. On that Lobo shop going out of business, they may not have been on metaphetamine in 1972, but then at that time i remember very well!! many garages were still cheating people very bad, in Houston Tx. that stopped and all of it as shops must have backup documents of all parts purchased or used, but sigh, now wrecker drivers and storage lots are a racket hehehehehe, as far as that rear end assembly, i wouldn't wait for anything to settle to bottom either, i would have used newspaper as you suggested...Janet