Which year is this engine ?

[ThomasBorchers]

Hello,

we own a 1951 Chevrolet 3100 DeLuxe Cabin. Installed is not the correct engine because it is too long for the engine room with fan. A friend means that it is a 1969 GMC Engine but I mean that it looks older as a 1969 engine.

I found this numbers : All on the right side of engine. This one is stamped in on the left site of the distributor : F 607 J. This is on the crank case on the right side of distributor : 3769716

And the on the left side of the crank case behind the starter : 00N4 F 27

Can someone say me which year this is ? And is it a Chevrolet or GMC Engine ?

Kind regards

Tom

[Guest Jeff Walker]

It's a later model 235. Since I see mounting holes for a side mounts it would be in the 58-62 range. They also did some changing on the water pump mounting on the 235's but I don't recall what year that happened. That's why you are having the fan clearance issue.

HTH

[ThomasBorchers]

Hi Jeff,

thank you for the information. After 2 hours of browsing the internet, I found a site with the casting numbers. http://www.antiquegmtrucks.com/GMCCastingNumbers/

After this, 3769716 indicates a 1958 to 1962 235 Chevy truck engine as you said.

Tom