I have a Studebaker (for all I know) V8 that has an interesting back story. My question is whether or not it can be ID'd without tearing it apart. This engine came out of a truck that my Dad bought at an auction at the South Bend Airport. The truck was a 1953 Stude 2 ton truck that had spent its entire life as a plow truck. It had no ***le and no Vin and was sold as "Off Road" only vehicle. The story the auctioneer gave (early 80's from Dad's memory) was that this truck came from the Stude factory and was originally used to plow the parking lots at the factory. I remember it having a weight box on the back of it that was full of cylinder heads and A-Arms. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If it had a split windshield it was probably a 232 CID as most of the smaller trucks only came with 6 cylinder engines, try digging around on this site., http://www.network54.com/Forum/23885/
I've been over that engine ten times and never noticed that stamp. I had to run back out to the shop and look. I wired brushed it off and it looks like it read VJ525 which according to:http://www.studebakerdriversclub.com/V8EngineID.asp would be a 259 built 9/25/65? Thanks, Matt
V followed by a letter and 3 numbers = Lark-type 259 . The date of manufacture was indicated by the final four characters; a letter representing month, a single digit for the year (3=1963, 4=1964), and two digits for the day. The month is represented by a letter as follows: A=Jan, B=Feb, C=Mar, D=Apr, E=May, F=Jun, G=Jul, H=Aug, J=Sep, K=Oct, M=Nov, N=Dec. . So it looks like you have a 259 (Lark Type) built September 25, 1965
Yeah... except I don't thing they made any Studebaker engines in 1965. The stopped manufacturing them in 1964. Should be a full-flow block (you can just see the oil filter in one of the pictures), which is desirable. That means it has to be a 63 or 64. Also it has a truck transmission, water manifold and intake manifold. It must have come out of a Champ.
Oh, that stamp that looks like an 8 is a cloverleaf. Those were stamped on replacement blocks -- so it was never sent out in a new car or truck. I've seen a couple of those.
_________________________________________________ Keystone Symbol -------------- Still would like to know what the symbol above the engine serial # means. Like I said it is a keystone type symbol, it is not the cloverleaf, I am familiar with that as my 1 ton truck has that engine with the 5E prefix This motor is serial number V522067. The symbol is an upside down keystone or square looking arrow head with a 6 in it. I wonder if it is an engine rebuilders mark? ///////////// ---------------- Keystone marks were used on R3 blocks but I don't think it has anything to do with them being R3. This R3 block I have has a keystone with an 8 in it both at the front and rear of the block. -- ---------------- The engine in my car actually has a keystone stamped under where the oil filler block-off plate screws on. Would have never seen it had I not gone to install my shiny finned aluminum stuff. nate ----------------------- __________________________________________________ This from:..http://www.studebaker-info.org/text3/text2010/cloverleaf.txt __________________________________________________ . I have a "Cloverleaf" block in my Studebaker. It does not have a number inside of the cloverleaf symbol.
IIRC by '65 Studebaker cars were only made in Canada and using Chevrolet (McKinnon) engines. Has to be older than that.
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