Hotrod55
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I just bought a 1963 C 600 and this is probably common knowledge but I do not know how to find what engine it has in it. If anyone can help I would appreciate it
How to identify engine
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This is the picture of it
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It's Not Going to Shift Itself
That would be a D600. Where is the distributor located?
OK, it's a Dodge.
Let's start here.. If it's a V-8, and the distributor is in the front, it's a
If it's a small block, it's a 318. Big block could be 361, 383 or 413.
Edited to correct brain fart.
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Agree. My neighbor at the farm came over looking for a distributor for his Dodge grain truck and even though I had many from many years of big blocks (non industrial), none of mine would work. I believe they were taller caps so the shafts and maybe insides were different.
Then there's the stamp on the front pad by the water hose connectors, however not sure it is the same as non-industrial engines.
Big John, you have it reversed.
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How many bolts hold on the valve covers?
2 or 3 = poly head
4 = early BB 1957-1963
5 = LA small block
6 = 1963-1980 BB
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Cerebral Flatulence - that's what I called it with my students - they thought that was hilarious!
I experience it often!
I experience it often!
Gerald Morris
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I've seen industrial 413s and 440s and they had the dizzie up front, just like the others. I think the difference is in the 8 bolt crankshaft, 5 bolt water pump housing and the cylinder heads, and that's about it.
When I saw some 1973-era D400 dump trucks at the Dodge dealer in Lubbock, I was surprised at how much plumbing was on the front of the motor that a car RB engine did not have. Like dual thermostats above the water pump, IIRC. BEHIND all of that, I could see the B/RB valve covers. More differences in "external dress" than I ever suspected.
A few years later, a local dirt contractor bought one of those D400 dump trucks. That was at the end of Chrysler's foray into the medium-duty truck market, so it must have been "a deal", I suspect. It was HARD to get parts for and HARD to work on. After that, he went back to his normal Chevy medium-duty trucks.
CBODY67
Post a picture of it.
According to the original sales brochure, a D600 is going to have either a 318 or a 361, mated to a 4-speed trans.....more like a 3 speed with granny gear added.
Post #6 should help figure out which of the two it is. And of course, the motor could have been changed in the last 60 years.
Post #6 should help figure out which of the two it is. And of course, the motor could have been changed in the last 60 years.
Gerald Morris
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Industrial 361s saw duty, being installed into military trucks into the late 1980s. Saw an article on this a couple yrs ago. One finds industrial engines in big RVs. Mopar had to sell those low displacement blocks somehow, and that was how they did it. Uncle bought MANY of them, as the Feddy had plenty Mopar appreciators on their payroll. Such retired feddy mechanics, engineers, architects and such met in a little cabal in Tucson, into which I got sucked for some years, and thus was introduced to the Joys of Mopar. Prior to that I had been a Fordian, as per the petit bourgeois/John Birch (and further Right) traditions of my maternal ancestors in the State of Louseyana.... Once I got to work on my '66 NYer, I never looked at Ford much again. Have had Buicks, Chevies off and on over the yrs too. None were so sensibly designed or well documented as Mopar!
Gerald Morris
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Oh yeah, the external stuff could be Evil! Those weird water pump housings suggest it. The stuff in RVs isn't quite so horrible as you describe, but RVs are horrible anyway. My 400 came from one, but, Deo gratias, it didn't have the 5 bolt water pump. My Plan is to pop one of the forged 383 cranks into that block, though this might require some cutting, as one of the bearings at least in it is .010" under sized... I suspect many undersized cranks got used for industrial engines, which were built for low rpms, but long duty cycles.
This is assuming that someone didn't plug an early Hemi in it. Their dizzy's are in the rear like a small block.
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