Hello everyone. I have been coming to this site for years, but just recently became a member again. I love this place, so full of information and opinions.......Well I am looking for some help with something. I just recently bought a 79 F-100, Short Box Step side.....in faily good shape. I hope to be getting some images on soon. Anyhow, I was down at the salvage yard today, trying to find a replacement motor, for the I Six that is my truck now. I cam e across this big flat bed truck, and found that it had a somewhat unusual engine in it. At least to my eyes. I took some pics of it, and also got some vin info as well, any help here would be greatlly appreciated. The info that I got of the tag on the door, may or may not be right, looked like the door may have been replaced at one point.
Vin-F10JE699728
Intake Numbers- COAE-9425-F
2060
Manual Tranny, four speed close ratio, the throw was really surprisingly short on the tranny

OK these pics are on yahoo. so I hope that this works......I will give it a try anyhow.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shocka...55.jpg&.src=ph


I hope someone can help me out. Thanks in advance for any ideas.


Andrew

Here is a pic of the door tag, and also of the motor and truck. One other note worth mentioning, the valva covers say mercury on them.

 

That looks like a 292 or 312 Y block. Ford put it into pickups and trucks in the 50s and early 60s. The Y block was replaced with the FE engines in the early 60s.

Marty

 

Could be a 272 as well.

Nothing special.

 

Should make a good trot line wieght

 

that is indeed a 272 or 292.it could even be a 256 or 312 .all the same family.since it says mercury on the rocker covers it may have come from a car.

 

Definite Y block motor. I think I saw one in a first gen 50's T-bird once. The distinctive thing on those engines was the exhaust arrangement with the driver's side manifold flowing forward then across and into the passenger side.

Also I think you're right about the door being swapped. The vin tag you show is for an F-100. That looks like a much lager truck than an F-100. Although many times the cabs were the same up into the 3-5 ton truck range so the doors would swap.

 

Yep, looks just like the 292 that I pulled out of my 63 F100, except that mine has a manual choke.

 

i have never seen a Y block until last weekend at our local chapter meet, one of our members has built a tri-power 292 for his F-100, its pretty freakin sweet, here is a link for his gallery, you can look through and see most of the build.....

https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...8&albumid=1119

this is my favorite view of it........

https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...=11934&width=2

 

definitely a Y block, good low end torque, relaitively speaking, not a lot of power, aftermarket parts are fairly hard to come by, but, its a nostalgic engine with SOME potential, it depends what your after, but I think there are better choices, and I own a Y block.

here are some links to resources:

http://www.ford-y-block.com
http://www.y-blocksforever.com/
http://www.fordtrucks.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56

As far as the comment "should make a good trot line weight"

What are you basing this incredibly intelligent pearl of wisdom on?
perhaps you should go share that with the guy who built this:

 

Oh, Oh Oh, you HAVE to build that for the 62

 

Thats the plan I think, After much hmming and Hawing it boiled down to keeping the 292 or swapping to an 300-6

I then decided that everything I/we own is a c6 why the heck not just keep the t19, which then took my thought process to the conclusion that theres no need to bother with an engine swap if were gonna keep the T19.....

So basically, your quote is the plan, eventually.

 

That sure is a pretty engine! I had never seen a ford with the dizzy out back.

 

Hey thanks everyone for your insight. I just loved the way this motor looks. I probably will not use it in my truck. I found a complete 460, brackets and pulleys, that I will most likely use. This time around, but I have been playing with the idea of building an older truck, 30-40, that I could see that engine finding its way into. Thank a lot everyone.




Andrew

 

what year is the truck that the motor is in?

some one i know bought a 73-79 u-haul truck it had a 366hd it looked pretty similar to that one there

 

you sure is wasn't a 330 or a 370? 366 is a big block chevy.