460 question
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From: Coal country
Nope!
No difference.
In fact, it was originally a car engine, but it proved its worth as a truck engine.
The head and block casting numbers will start with D3V - the number may vary.
The D is the 1970s,
The 3 (in this example) is 1973.
The V indicates the Lincoln line - your truck engine is a Lincoln car engine in origin.
If it were designed as a truck part, it would read D3T.
It wasn't until about 1980 that the V was changed to a T to indicate a truck engine application. The 460 had been dropped from the cars, but it lasted in the trucks until the middle '90s, a strong testimony to its reliability and power as a truck engine.
No difference.
In fact, it was originally a car engine, but it proved its worth as a truck engine.
The head and block casting numbers will start with D3V - the number may vary.
The D is the 1970s,
The 3 (in this example) is 1973.
The V indicates the Lincoln line - your truck engine is a Lincoln car engine in origin.
If it were designed as a truck part, it would read D3T.
It wasn't until about 1980 that the V was changed to a T to indicate a truck engine application. The 460 had been dropped from the cars, but it lasted in the trucks until the middle '90s, a strong testimony to its reliability and power as a truck engine.
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From: Coal country
By the way, these casting numbers are design numbers, not date codes.
For example, the bushings on your truck's radius arms will carry a C5T number - they were designed in '65 as a truck part, and the design didn't change all those years.
The date codes indicating the actual manufacture of the heads and block will be found elsewhere.
For example, the bushings on your truck's radius arms will carry a C5T number - they were designed in '65 as a truck part, and the design didn't change all those years.
The date codes indicating the actual manufacture of the heads and block will be found elsewhere.
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From: Sunny Florida
My buddy had a 78 or 79 460 4x2 truck and tore his oil pan off only to find he had the stock car rods as well. Some where some how ford did use better rods but I do not know when and or what determined the use of the better rods but I am pretty sure I have seen them out there with a D? part number which was later than the SCj or CJ built engines.
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From: Sudbury, ONT.
When I pulled the pan off my stock 460 from my 79 F150 2x4, I was lucky enough to find it had the better rods/bolts. The heads of the bolts are oval shaped. The part number was C9?? I was very surprised to find them in my engine. I'd never heard of them being installed in truck engines. Any ideas about why some newer engines got these better rods?
