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| | | | Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 | Hi. I am new to the forum and am looking for some information. I have a 1954 Chevy 5 window pickup and I am looking for some information about the engine. I have looked at Tim's truck page. There are no numbers on the block where he shows the block casting code and no numbers where he shows the block date casting codes. In fact the only numbers I have been able to find on the block at all are the number 2 above GM on the front right of the block and the following numbers on the distributor plate 06577 30 F54M. The head casting number is where it says on Tim's page and is 3835913. Where else could the casting and date codes be? How can I find out more about this engine without those numbers? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 68 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 68 | Hi
I know the F stsnds for FLINT - MICHIGAN
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 433 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 433 | ukwildcat53 Your Engine Cast # will be below and in front of your distributor like here ... The Engine Cast # will tell you when it was used in production... As example mine current engine is 3769716 and it was used from 1958-1962 and is a 235 CI ... Many of these old truck engines were replaced as mine was twice... Yours might be the original engine... Either way the Engine Cast # will be in the same place... You can also run your Vin # through The VIN Buster ... Your vin plate is located here on the left side of your cab between the door hinges...
1954 Chevy 3104 3 Window Hydra-Matic in my family for over 60 Years
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right... "Scarlet Begonias" Grateful Dead 1974
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 |
3835913 is the head casting code on a 1954 or 1955 first series 235 engine.
F54M as part of an engine serial number would indicate a 1/2 ton 1954 (3100) truck made in Flint, MI and having a Hydra-Matic (automatic) transmission. Can you post a photo of that plate? It might be an engine code plate that was at one time attached to the Hydra-Matic transmission (the Hydra-Matic's engine and transmission were matched at the factory).
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 388 | The block casting number for the 1954 and earlier engines is right above the oil pan flange and forward of the fuel pump. [IMG
This area is often covered with road grime.
Hoyt | | | | | Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 | I know where the casting number is supposed to be, that is the problem. There is no number below and in front of the distributor or anywhere else that I have been able to find. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 | The block casting number for the 1954 and earlier engines is right above the oil pan flange and forward of the fuel pump. [IMG
This area is often covered with road grime.
Hoyt I will have to look at this area. Everything else I have been able to find said the casting number was below and in front of the distributor. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 4 | 3835913 is the head casting code on a 1954 or 1955 first series 235 engine.
F54M as part of an engine serial number would indicate a 1/2 ton 1954 (3100) truck made in Flint, MI and having a Hydra-Matic (automatic) transmission. Can you post a photo of that plate? It might be an engine code plate that was at one time attached to the Hydra-Matic transmission (the Hydra-Matic's engine and transmission were matched at the factory). I will have to take a picture and post it. It is not really a plate. It is stamped on the ledge to the left of where the distributor enters the block. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 166 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 166 | That stamped number behind distribuitor is engine number, not casting. As Tim said, it is a 54. Casting number will be more accurate than stamped engine number, since they might have stamped it back. Head casting is no warranty either, since some heads fits same block. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 433 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 433 | 3835913 is the head casting code on a 1954 or 1955 first series 235 engine.
F54M as part of an engine serial number would indicate a 1/2 ton 1954 (3100) truck made in Flint, MI and having a Hydra-Matic (automatic) transmission. Can you post a photo of that plate? It might be an engine code plate that was at one time attached to the Hydra-Matic transmission (the Hydra-Matic's engine and transmission were matched at the factory). ukwildcat53 If you have a Hydra--Matic transmission here is the Plate pic attached to it...
1954 Chevy 3104 3 Window Hydra-Matic in my family for over 60 Years
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right... "Scarlet Begonias" Grateful Dead 1974
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