engine ID help
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engine ID help
Posted this in the 66' forum and thought i should maybe have put here.Pulled my engine this weekend too clean and install in diff.truck and here is what i found.
facing back of block- large ''A'' on left top,C4AE on heads,facing front of engine 05AE-A & 5HK4-6? not to sure about the 6,top of block below head same side K11R and on the right side SS2624 to the right of the water pump.Could find no numbers around the oil filter boss.
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facing back of block- large ''A'' on left top,C4AE on heads,facing front of engine 05AE-A & 5HK4-6? not to sure about the 6,top of block below head same side K11R and on the right side SS2624 to the right of the water pump.Could find no numbers around the oil filter boss.
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Looks like standard issue 1965 stuff. Do you have a casting number off the side of the block, above left of the front feeze plug on the driver side (I think). If you can, pull the oil pan and grab the number off the crank, that will tell you better as to what's inside, and that's what counts...
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Those are all the numbers i could find on the block.It also has brass head gaskets.I will not be pulling the pan off as it is all painted and ready too drop in.Won't touch it till i need too because it runs like a top.
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05AE is actually C5AE = first casting in 1965.
1965/67 352 damper = C3AZ-6312-E ~ Marked: C4AE-6316-A / 6 5/8" diameter.
There's no such thing as brass head gaskets. They're either steel or a composition of steel and asbestos. The edges of these composition gaskets have a copper hue to them.
The use of composition head gaskets lowers the compression ratio.
1965/67 352 damper = C3AZ-6312-E ~ Marked: C4AE-6316-A / 6 5/8" diameter.
There's no such thing as brass head gaskets. They're either steel or a composition of steel and asbestos. The edges of these composition gaskets have a copper hue to them.
The use of composition head gaskets lowers the compression ratio.
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Originally Posted by merc390
I guess the O is could be a C but i cleaned it carefully and it is defineitly a ''O''.As for the head gaskets they are not a composite and they are not steel.This is a Mercury engine not Ford.
Ford numbering system
A = 1940's
B = 1950's
C = decade = 1960's / 5 = year / A = Ford / E = casting/engineering
D = 1970's
E = 1980's
F = 1990's
Original Ford FE head gaskets are either steel (C8AZ-6051-A) or composition (C6AZ-6051-A) there's isn't anything else. Not either? What you have are aftermarket copper head gaskets.
Ford-Mercury FE engine same-o same-o. There's not one specific Mercury part number in any 352/390 engine.
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Originally Posted by merc390
Rogue40 it has a steel crank,not a cast one like the 352's have.
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The Ford HP interchange lists the C5AE-A as either a 390 or a 427 block, look and see if there's Three 3/8" (9/16" heads) bolts screwed in the side of the block (3 per side) just above the oil pan. These would be 427 cross bolts and indicate it's a 427. The "SS2624" on the front is strange to me and it could be some sort of race 427 block maybe.
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Originally Posted by merc390
Rogue40 it has a steel crank,not a cast one like the 352's have.
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Originally Posted by baddad457
The Ford HP interchange lists the C5AE-A as either a 390 or a 427 block, look and see if there's Three 3/8" (9/16" heads) bolts screwed in the side of the block (3 per side) just above the oil pan. These would be 427 cross bolts and indicate it's a 427. The "SS2624" on the front is strange to me and it could be some sort of race 427 block maybe.
But even on a good day I find Fords numbers confusing at best.
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Originally Posted by rogue40
I'm no expert by any stretch but the "A" fingernailed in the back of the block also indicates a 427 or 428 and the head number could be for a 427 high riser.
But even on a good day I find Fords numbers confusing at best.
But even on a good day I find Fords numbers confusing at best.
