Friday, June 6, 2014
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The FE, or Ford-Edsel, family of Ford engines included some of Fords biggest powerhouses, including the 360, 390, 427, and 428 big blocks. Identifying the cylinder heads on these engines requires a combination of identification techniques, beginning with locating the casting number.
FE cylinder head casting numbers are stamped directly on the top of the head itself. On the passenger side, they are between cylinders two and three- driver side numbers are between cylinders six and seven. Casting number C9XX was manufactured in 1969. "C" represents the 1960s ("D" for the 1970s, and so on), "9" is the decade year followed by vehicle model and engineering codes. A Ford parts department may be able to further help you determine each characters meaning.
The heads of the 428 Cobra Jet, the 390 High-Performance, the 390 GT and the 427 need further identification differentiation. The Cobra Jet has larger ports than both 390s and has either vertical or diagonal exhaust manifold bolts. The 390 High-Performance head has larger ports than the 390 GT. The 427 head can have low, medium or high riser lengths.
Most FE heads are interchangeable. Modifications are done for performance reasons, and performance specifications differentiate most FE-series heads. As no one identification method positively identifies one from another, its generally necessary to measure ports, risers and valve sizes for cross-erence.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Cylinders are cut from the engine block to house the pistons and handle rapid piston movement. Ford offers 4, 6 and 8-cylinder engines of different sizes, cylinder numbering and firing order. Variations on traditional cylinder-numbering occur on front-wheel drive engines.
All Ford engines follow the same cylinder numbering system. While facing the front of a V8, starting on your left, the cylinder closest to the fan is number 1. cylinders 2, 3 and 4 follow in order. On the right side, cylinder 5 is closest to the fan and the remainder follow in order. V6 engines follow the same pattern, with only 6 cylinders.
On both inline (straight) 6-cylinder and 4-cylinder engines, when looking at the engine from the front, the cylinder closest to the fan is cylinder 1, with the remaining following in order towards the rear of the engine..
Front-wheel drive engines have a side-to-side engine orientation, which changes the cylinder locations. On front-wheel drive V8s, while looking at the engine from the front, the row of cylinders nearest the windshield begin with cylinder one to the left and follow in order to the right. Cylinder 5 is on the front left-hand side, with 6, 7 and 8 going towards the right. V6 engines follow the same pattern. Ford 4-cylinder front-wheel drive engines start with cylinder 1 on the far left when facing the engine.
Friday, March 14, 2014
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Since its founding in the 1930s, Japans Toyota Motor Corporation has produced a variety of motor vehicle engines for trucks and cars in its own line and for other manufacturers.
Not surprisingly, the prolific Toyota Motor Corporation uses one of the most efficient engine identification systems among automobile manufacturers. The companys method incorporates each vehicles vehicle identification number, or VIN, making it nearly impossible to purchase the wrong engine for a given model.
Your Toyota VIN is a combination of 17 numbers and letters. You can find it in the following places: on your insurance card; on your vehicle registration; on the "VIN plate" located on the lower dashboard closest to the closest to the windshield on the drivers side; and printed on the certificate label located on the drivers side door jamb.
In looking at the VIN, note the first numeric characters, which specify the engine blocks generation. The next one or two letters specify the engine family. The suffix, which is separated by a dash, specifies the features of the engine. For example, "C" indicates "emissions control system" while "E" indicates "electronic fuel injection."
Saturday, February 15, 2014
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Called standard transmissions, from the days when they were issued standard on all vehicles, manual transmissions are easily identified because they are smaller than automatics and are shifted manually. Automakers offered a variety of manual transmissions, each with their own identification features.
A standard transmission will have the shifter linkage attached directly to the top of the transmission. On floor-shifter models, the stick shift will be part of the transmission and for column shifters, the linkage will lead to the transmission. Automatic transmissions are much larger and will have a removable pan on the bottom.
Standard transmissions can be anywhere from three to six-speeds. Earlier cars and trucks from the 1950s and 1960s usually came equipped with either three or four-speed transmissions, and some were not manufactured by the automaker themselves. Contracted transmission manufacturers, like Borg-Warner, made transmissions for Ford and General Motors. Each manual transmission has its own unique identity features, such as stamped codes, bolt patterns, gear ratios and reverse gear placement.
Stamped codes may identify the transmission, and at other times may be just a piece of the identification puzzle. General Motors used three basic transmission types, the Borg-Warner, Muncie and Saginaw, and these can be identified by the number of bolts on the cover and by reverse lever placement. On most Fords, counting cover bolts works well, and on the Borg-Warner transmissions code identification is possible
