223 ford

This is great info! I bought 10 30 for my 6 and it seems to be running great! Or maybe I should have stuck with 30 wt

 

Don't loose any sleep over it. Multi-vis oils have came a long way since the 50s. If it makes you feel better the recomended oils for all your HD truck diesels has been 15-40 for OH the last 20-25 years. If you have oil leaks multi-vis seems to find them a bit better than straight weights. Way back in the late 50s seems like Texaco Havolene 10-30 would leak out of the can let alone a engine.

 

ah, no.....

actually, the ford 215 and the 262 six also had the dist on the p***enger side as well. 215 was center in the side of the block, and the 223/262 had them in front.

 

The good:

The motor runs like a top!!

The bad:

Well the bad isnt great but not that bad haha. Its smoking but not huge amounts of black clouds like my old 223. Its just a bit of a blue tint. I know its rungs, I went to napa and got this engine restorer but its still there. Ohwell its running good and its not smoking too bad.

 

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Just thought I'd bump this great thread. I just bought a '61 Ford P-400 (Bread Truck Converted to Desert Road Warrior) with a 223 in it . It has about 15,000 on a rebuild. The previous owner (who also is a retired big rig diesel mechanic) swears that it must run Castrol 20w-50 in it. I run Rotella 30w in my '64 Clark Cortez with a 318 and in my '58 GMC P.U. with a 270 in it. Seeing as how this engine has so few miles on it, this is an opportunity to start a good regimen with a good oil for it. Any recommendations what oil I should use with this set up? It's a '61 223 that pulling a 5800lb. bread truck body with a 4 spd(w granny gear) and a dana 60 rear end. Thanks!

 

>>Just thought I'd bump this great thread. I just bought a '61 Ford P-400 (Bread Truck Converted to Desert Road Warrior) with a 223 in it . It has about 15,000 on a rebuild. The previous owner (who also is a retired big rig diesel mechanic) swears that it must run Castrol 20w-50 in it. I run Rotella 30w in my '64 Clark Cortez with a 318 and in my '58 GMC P.U. with a 270 in it. Seeing as how this engine has so few miles on it, this is an opportunity to start a good regimen with a good oil for it. Any recommendations what oil I should use with this set up? It's a '61 223 that pulling a 5800lb. bread truck body with a 4 spd(w granny gear) and a dana 60 rear end. Thanks!<<

Rotella is ok,but I MUCH prefer Mobile DX-1300. Forget the Castrol 20w-50 and other **** oil. It's fine for your new whatever,but you need a oil with a lot of zinc in it like oil for diesel engines. The automotive oils of today are formulated with low zinc to protect catalytic convertors and because the modern engines are almost all overhead cam engines with roller rockers and low friction everything. They don't have the loads placed on the cams that your old pushrod engine does.

If you use modern automotive oils instead of diesel oils it will increase your cam wear and maybe even break the cam.

I personally use Mobile 1 synthetic in my modern engines,and Mobile DX-1300 15W40 in my older engines,like my 312 Ford Y-Block.

 

I use Brad Penn. Be very careful here because of the flat tappets. If you use anything else, definitely go with a zinc additive as well.