67 Ford F100, 352 V8. I am quite sure the engine is original. (92,000 miles)



I located the engine tag fastened by the ignition coil bolt.
"352" and "67" seem obvious to me.
Can anyone help out the what the other numbers and letter signify?

Truck was built in Canadian Plant at Oakville

 

A readable original tag where it belongs. Amazing!!

https://www.fordification.com/tech/engineIDtags.htm

I think this means it was a replacement--scroll down to the "291" on that list.

F100/350(4x2),Warranty plate Y, 3 or 4 speed M/T, Replacement engine part assembly part # C6TZ.6007.AB

So I would guess that the original engine was replaced by Ford, probably under warranty, fairly early in the life of the truck.

How long have you had it and what history did you get from the prior owner?

 

85e150,
Thanks for the link, but I am unable to find the info you referred to. Would it be possible for you to give me the post number in the thread you linked me too?

As far as previous owners are concerned I have documentation of ownership by 2 previous owners. I am the third.
First owner lived in Ohio and owned the truck from March 1967 to November 2005. 88700 miles.
Second owner Live in northern Ontario, Canada and owned the truck from November 2005 to August 2018. 91100 miles
I have owned it since September 2018.

The second owner was not aware of an engine replacement, and I have tried in the past to contact the first owner with other question but no luck finding him.

 

I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong link. I corrected it above, but here it is again:

https://www.fordification.com/tech/engineIDtags.htm

Had to be the first owner.

Ford warranty for '67 was 2/24 for "bumper to bumper", with exclusions, and 5/50 for powertrain.

https://www.fordification.com/librar...18/category/93

 

Yes I found it and edited my earlier post. Thanks.

This would imply that it was a replacement engine under warranty. I'd love to know at what mileage it was replaced at to get a sense of how many miles are actually on the engine. I wonder how many miles the engine warranty would have been on the new truck.

Answered my own question on warranty period. I will assume it was replaced at 49,000 miles, so my current 92000 on the odometer is only 43,000 miles on the engine
1967 Ford Truck memorabilia / 1967-1970 Ford Warranty brochure | FORDification Factory Literature Library

 

Before jumping to any conclusions about replacement engines, it would be interesting to know the build date on the truck. The lower left of the tag shows the build date of the engine, in this case, 6L being November, 1966. If the truck was a late November, December or January build, it could be the original engine and the same tag or code was used on both production and replacement engines of that type. If the build date was earlier or later than this time frame, then that would lead one to give credibility to the replacement engine theory. Is the truck a manual trans truck?

 

52 Merc,
Good point, and I suppose I will never really know, based on your comment that it could be the same tag on both new and replacement engines. Below is the date data from the Marti report. It is a 3 speed manual, and built in the Oakville plant in Canada, but first sold in Ohio. I wouldn't know where new or replacement engines would have been built at the time, or if there are any clues I am missing on the tag. I understand that the year (6) and month (L) of production on the tag would be 1966, November.
Could an engine built the same month as the truck have made it into the truck? Just-in-time shipping from the engine plant, back in the day?

 

Ford was one of the innovators of Just-in-time delivery. It's very common in that time frame to find engines with casting dates within or about 30 days of vehicle assembly. If the engine was built in the beginning of the month it certainly could have made it to assembly in time for it to be installed in your truck. My 67 Mustang was built on January 23 and had engine casting dates of December 29-31. Machining and assembly would have been a few days later, then shipped from Windsor to San Jose for installation in a matter of days. I'll go out on a limb and say, imho, based on the data we have here, you have the original engine.

Just for the sake of argument, let's say the truck was purchased and did have an engine issue that required a warranty replacement. That most likely would have occurred within the first 6 months, and since it didn't sell until late March, that puts it late Summer '67 before the problem likely arose. Then they would have had to deal with the dealer and the factory reps to ok the swap, then have an engine shipped in. A replacement engine would most likely have post dated the truck by several months. Just looking at this with this skiff of logic, this leads me to the original engine conclusion.

 

Where would I look for the block casting date on my 1967 352 FE?