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| | | | Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 413 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 413 | How many of you do not have their original engines and wish they did?
I thought of an idea of tracking down our original engines for our trucks that do not have them. What if all of us who still have our original titles with the original engine numbers on them posted the number here and see if by some strange chance, someone here may have it in their truck now?
or vise versa, post the number from your non original engine and see if the truck it came out of is still around.
I think it will be kind of cool to see if this works.
My GMC engine number on my title reads:
24830729
The number from the engine in it now reads:248240236
It might be worth a shot
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 116 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 116 | I know where my 216 went lol... to the scrap yard.... i tried to sell it here even give it away no one wanted it  now i have someone elses 261 in my truck.... Matt
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1939 1/2 ton Resto-mod
1937 1 1/2 ton Is in the driveway
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,962 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,962 | When trucks of that size were repowered, that meant the original one was junk. And people weren't very sentimental about junk in those days. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,989 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,989 | When trucks of that size were repowered, that meant the original one was junk. And people weren't very sentimental about junk in those days. Ditto that! The engine in my truck was put in by a couple farmers with a welder and a torch. They had one objective--get the truck back on the road so they could haul corn with it! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 | I've heard of some guys that found a rare big block from the muscle car days and using the engine numbers to then locate the car. However these old truck motors once jerked out are just junk and in the way also a couple years back with scrap iron prices through the roof, people cashed in.
You could always stamp your old number on another motor.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 | I took mine to the scrap yard earlier this year, good place for it. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 49 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 49 | Cool idea, for the right person.. You want the 235 thats in my GMC? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 374 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 374 | | | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 49 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 49 | big Tee
I think Ill keep it, the head I thought was cracked ended up being just fine. Cheers.. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 119 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 119 | Far as I can tell my original is still under the hood. The numbers still seem to match my truck from what I can tell. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 109 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 109 | Several years ago I bought a 409 that had been pulled from a truck and thrown out behind a shop.I then had to buy a 63 Impala for my wife, so I'd have a place for the motor.
'65 C-10, 65 L-60, 65 C-80, 72 C-60 & and a bunch of old Chevy cars.
Never time to do it right, always time to do it over.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,775 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,775 | Don't know what happened to mine but it has a later car motor under the hood. I did find another '54 235 out of a panel wagon, but couldn't get the guy to part with it even though the wagon was sitting on another chassis. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | I gave mine to a guy in exchange for him pulling it and hauling it away. It now resides in his '51. I'm not sure I did the right thing. | | |
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