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| | | | Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 | I have been searching for code/serial number info for a stovebolt engine, but I haven't had much luck, and more confusion. On the flat machined surface behind the distributor there are two sets of numbers stamped on top of each other. The first stampings are smaller and appear to be F0516J then on top of those is a slightly larger set of numbers that appear to read E15052 . Then just after that mess is stamped the number 21266 . Does anyone have a good link to decipher those numbers, or care to take a crack at decoding those? This engine came out of a 1958 Biscayne, but I don't know if that was the original engine for that car or not. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 | The casting numbers on this engine are as follows: above starter- CON3 E 14 2 . In front of dist- 8769716 . Head- 3836848 | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | F0516J
F= Flint, MI assembly plant
05 = May
16 = 16th
J = 3100-3800 regular production 235 in a truck
CON3 = block Conveyor #3
E 14 2
E = 5 = May
14 = 14th
2 = 1962
Head casting code 3836848: 1956-1963
8769716 = ?
3769716 = 1958-1962 235 block
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 | Thanks Tim, the F0516J has E15052 stamped over it. So I'm thinkin they changed their mind for some funny reason and discarded the F0516J stamping. The E 14 2 suggests it's a 1962 engine? Why didn't GM just cast/stamp in ID markings that were straight forward and made logical sense? Would a code that read " June 20th 1960 235 C.I." for example have been to confusing???? | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 | Doesn't sound like something GM would do. I suspect some owner hanky panky going on at some point in the past. A DMV inspector would throw a red flag all over that. Kind of strange that they didn't take the time to grind off the old #s before stamping the new ones in.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,121 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,121 | Just guessing, but maybe the engine was rebuilt one or more times along the way? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 192 | I just bought it for cheap from a guy who took it out of his '58 Biscayne in favor of a V8. I have no idea on the engines history. I would think if someone was playing hanky-panky that they would have had enough sense to grind off the old stampings tho. Perhaps it was stamped for a particular vehicle, not used for whatever reason, did a little shelf time, and then re-stamped for whatever vehicle it actually ended up going into. | | |
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