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Howdy,
Is there an easy way to tell these apart, visually? I was looking at a 1960 F100 today with a straight six in it. I have a 1960 Fairlane with a 223, and I noticed the valve cover in the truck is held on with 2 nuts on the top, rather than the 8 ( I believe) around the edges as in my car. Other than that it looked pretty much the same.
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Is there an easy way to tell these apart, visually? I was looking at a 1960 F100 today with a straight six in it. I have a 1960 Fairlane with a 223, and I noticed the valve cover in the truck is held on with 2 nuts on the top, rather than the 8 ( I believe) around the edges as in my car. Other than that it looked pretty much the same.
Thanks,
Jay
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Jay, I'm only going by pictures in a parts book, but the 215/223 cid engines had 2 bolts in the mid-line of the valve covers to hold them on and the breather cap is at the front of the cover. Looking at the motor from the passenger side, the distributor and oil filter are located behind the mid-line of the block.
The 262 had 8 bolt covers and the breather cap is closer to the middle of the cover. Looking at the motor from the passenger side, the distributor and oil filter are located on the front half of the block.
Hope this helps.
The 262 had 8 bolt covers and the breather cap is closer to the middle of the cover. Looking at the motor from the passenger side, the distributor and oil filter are located on the front half of the block.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the reply, mtflat. I wonder if they made them differently for cars then. The 223 in my car has 8 bolts and the breather cap is in the front. The distributor and oil filter are also in the front. Maybe someone dropped a 262 in it in the distant past? The valve cover in the car is painted orange (matches the side hanging air intake), the one I saw in the truck is painted black.
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Jay
Thanks again,
Jay
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Ok, thanks angus. I looked in my CD copy of the 1960 car shop manual and the pictures in there show the 8 bolt valve cover. I thought maybe they had different factories for truck & car engines or something 
. Makes more sense that they just changed the design.
. Makes more sense that they just changed the design.
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I bought several 223 heads and cranks from a back alley "rebuilder" a few years back. I've got one oddball head with a 62 ( C2xx ) casting number on it that must be a 262 head. It is the later casting with the machined gasket surface and provisions for the bolt holes but it does not have the bolt holes drilled indicating that the valve cover musr still be held on with the two studs through the top. I also have one lightweight style crank with large cast holes in the rod journals.
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Awright... I did some research last night (Motors 1964 Truck Repair Manual, 1960 Ford Service Manual, Auto Interchange Systems Ford parts), and it looks like the 262 was used in C-550 and C600 trucks from 1961 to 1964. In 1964 a light-duty version was an option for the F-series.
262 bore was 3.718, stroke 4.03.
262 block part numbers:
C3TZ6009G replaces 61-63 (C1xxx and C2xxx in '61 and '62)
C4TZ6009A for 64 LD
C4TZ6009B for 64 HD
Head was the same 61-64:
C3TZ6049E
Oil pan was different from the 223, and the same from 61-64
Intake manifold was same as 223 (60-64)
Exhaust manifold for 61-63 was unique to the 262
Exhaust manifold for 64 was the same as the 54-64 223
As for the 223:
2 block versions:
54-60
61-64
3 heads:
54-59
60
61-64
1960 was when they began using the valve cover with the bolts around the rim. (The 1960 shop manual shows both styles. There was a 2-nut style engine in my 60 Merc; maybe someone swapped the engine, or Ford used up some old stock engines?)
262 bore was 3.718, stroke 4.03.
262 block part numbers:
C3TZ6009G replaces 61-63 (C1xxx and C2xxx in '61 and '62)
C4TZ6009A for 64 LD
C4TZ6009B for 64 HD
Head was the same 61-64:
C3TZ6049E
Oil pan was different from the 223, and the same from 61-64
Intake manifold was same as 223 (60-64)
Exhaust manifold for 61-63 was unique to the 262
Exhaust manifold for 64 was the same as the 54-64 223
As for the 223:
2 block versions:
54-60
61-64
3 heads:
54-59
60
61-64
1960 was when they began using the valve cover with the bolts around the rim. (The 1960 shop manual shows both styles. There was a 2-nut style engine in my 60 Merc; maybe someone swapped the engine, or Ford used up some old stock engines?)
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I bet they used old stock on the trucks. If I remember correctly when I decoded the VIN of my car, it was built in January 1960 in Chicago. So that's what, 3 or 4 months into the model year?
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Hollanders says 60 was a transition year and that both style valve covers were used on the early block.
In 61 the block changed to 1/2" head bolts since early years were blowing gaskets. In 61 the compression went down also.
Hollanders also says there were some scattered reports of the new block in the 60 models. Typical Ford.
In 61 the block changed to 1/2" head bolts since early years were blowing gaskets. In 61 the compression went down also.
Hollanders also says there were some scattered reports of the new block in the 60 models. Typical Ford.
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