a little help please?
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From: Howell
a little help please?
can anyone tell me what this engine is just by this picture? ksl.com - KSL Car Classifieds i'm hoping it's a small block.. but i'm new to the older trucks.. so i need some help.
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From: hinckley ohio
Looks like a small block 302 or 351windser.older 302 valve covers. easest way to till 302-351 is upper rad.hose goes into manifold.so do 429-460 s 351-400 m goes into block.way to till 302 from 351w is width off intake manifold. I could be wrong but i think thats a 351w
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I can see a temperature sending unit in the intake, which means it's a wet intake, which rules out an 351M\400 for sure. It's either a 429/460 or a 302/351W. I can't really tell if the valve covers are trapezoidal or not. It's impossible to make a positive identification using this picture.
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From: beaufort
My guess is that is a 302 or 351 windsor look at the angle of the upper
radiator hose and shape of valve covers. Chuck
radiator hose and shape of valve covers. Chuck
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Gonna have to go with FE, because of how the heater hose connects to the intake, coil bracket hole on the intake (not used on that engine), looks like a 5 bolt valve cover and the upper radiator hose mounting position.
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No FE valve cover ever had that indentation at the top center.
It's not a 351C/351M/400 valve cover either, as it's not wide enough.
It's either a 429/460, as the parts catalog pic shows the valve cover with that indentation.
The intake manifold appears to be the original, and what engine in 1973/79 came with a 4V? 429/460's and 1974/76 390's (as an option).
The 302/351W valve covers are indented at the top front.
The engine has been swapped because this appears to be a 4WD.
The only V8 engines available with 4WD in 1977/79 were the 351M or 400.
No 460 4WD's till 1983, no 1969/79 F100/150 with a 302 ever came with 4WD.
No 351W engines installed in F150/350's till 1981.
If it's a 429, no F100/350 ever came with that engine.
FYI: Valve cover bolts per side.
FE = 5 // 302/351W: 6 / 429/460 = 7 // 351C/351M/400 = 8.
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Looks like a 460 to me. I just pulled my tired 460 out of my 77 F250 and it's sitting in back. I just went back and looked at it and everything looks identical, the water temp sending unit, coil bracket mount, valve covers.
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From: hinckley ohio
IN the 84-86 Ford made the 351w H.O.(I could be wrong on the start up year) that is alot in my opinion a 351w h.o. manifold . I have one in my truck they where cast iron not alum intake manifolds. The valve covers look like older 351w "powered by ford" .Before i thought they where 302 i was wrong.
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