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Well after some mild weather and a bit of rain I got out to take a look at what was in Jed the truck for an engine and it is truly a flat head 6 but it is not a GM it is a diamond reo which makes it an International which for me is great as I happen to have a 1941 International T6 that happens to have a need for a new motor so I can see a dozer getting a new life some time this year.I think that I will put a small 8 in the 53 and the 53s drive train into jed if I get lucky I might even get in some fishing .I am going to enjoy seeing how that old fella married a diamond reo engine to a GM tranny . Just to back water here it goes to show you can't fool men that work on these trucks for love it appears that chev did not make a flat head engine but now I can put a good old piece of construction machinery back in service.

i dont know if ih made engines for diamond t - reo trucks but
im pretty sure a t6 did not have a flat head. i will haveto do some
research but im not sure that ih ever made a flat head

Binders had flatheads well into the '40's.

According to the boys over at redpower it is probably a green diamond engine they need to see pics to be sure my daughter is coming over tomorrow nite and I promise not to lose the instructions on how to post pics this time but back to topic I have a 1973 motor home that is bound for the scrap yard it has a 350 4 barrel engine and a automatic transmission the engine needs a rebuild but the tranny is good it may be poor form to turn the old truck into an automatic by the purists but in my line of work it can take a toll on the body and an automatic will make it an easier drive on a daily bases and the wife can drive it too but question does anyone have an idea what tranny would be in the class C motorhome would it be a 350th or wo0uld it be a 700? Either way it should handle the strain as the GVW on the motorhome lists it at 8,985 LBs but when it was flat bedded home it weighed in 10,200 LBs putting the tow truck over byjust less than 100 kg so the scale since we only had 2 miles to go let us of without a fine as we loaded it in good faith on the listed weight.All things being equal it should be fine.

The most common motorhome powertrain in the mid-70's was a small block 400 engine and a beefed-up version of the TH-400 trans called a TH-425, I believe. It should have an odd-shaped oil pan about 2 1/2" deep, no kickdown cable, and a 1-wire electric downshift connector just above the manual gear select linkage. The way to identify the 400 engine is a BIG crankshaft damper with an off-balance weight cast into it. The flywheel/flex plate will have a weight on it, also. Good engine, IF you don't let it overheat. They're bad about cracking cylinder heads. The 400 MH engines had 4-bolt main bearings, IIRC.
Jerry