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Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me? dbt #1125811 09/23/2015 5:55 PM
Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 48 Minnesota D distributorguy Wrench Fetcher
distributorguy Wrench Fetcher D Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 48 Minnesota	I'm just saying the date code system seems to not be correct. I don't have proof of it, but my own engine and this engine are both anomalies. Mine quite honestly looks to have never been removed from the truck, yet the date code seems impossible. The casting number however is correct. I thought the end of US production 261 blocks was 1962. Am I wrong?

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	dbt	09/22/2015 3:22 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	tclederman	09/22/2015 8:26 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	dbt	09/22/2015 6:34 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	dbt	09/22/2015 6:38 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	jorb	09/22/2015 7:43 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	Mike B	09/23/2015 2:51 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	Hotrod Lincoln	09/23/2015 4:56 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	distributorguy	09/23/2015 1:49 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	tclederman	09/23/2015 2:59 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	distributorguy	09/23/2015 5:55 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	LONGBOX55	09/23/2015 6:00 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	dbt	09/24/2015 12:00 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	jorb	09/24/2015 2:14 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	distributorguy	09/24/2015 2:38 AM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	tclederman	09/24/2015 12:37 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	dbt	09/25/2015 6:18 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	jorb	09/25/2015 6:51 PM
Re: Block s/n 55F1017N: what's it tell me?	dbt	09/26/2015 12:41 AM

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