Anybody pass through Nanaimo?

[rob love]

Thanks a lot for your efforts in this Jes, and thanks to John who will be getting them to Calgary for me. It's all coming together. With any luck I'll have one of these into that penguin in the next year or two.

[Wayne Hingley]

Wow, that looks like a bad-boy engine! Rob; you will single-handedly bring the oil industry back to its former glory... haha

[rob love]

Wayne

They are a classic, in the same league with the Ford V8. These are a form of art in themselves.

I would paint one up and put a glass table top on it for the living room if I thought, even for one milli-second, the wife woudl let me get away with it.

[jdmcm]

Stuart tank Cadillac flatheads??? Delivered to my shop? I have no idea what you guys are talking about...

[rob love]

Subterfuge in the vehicle collecting hobby? Say it isn't so!!


John

You are seeing the blocks in person. The thrid ne (recent take out) is obviously a pre-41 block as it does not have the boss over the waterpump or the mounting points for the oil filter neither cast nor tapped on the left bank.

The second engine (no oil pan) appears to have these features, so am I correct in guessing that it is a 46 civilian block?

The first engine is supposed to be a military surplus engine. Could you provide the serial number (1G, 2G etc prefix)? It does not look like a Stuart engine in that it doesn't have the rear drive for the generator. Any idea what this engine is from? Perhaps a panguin?

While I shoudl have these in my barn by the end of March if all goes well, I am like a kid at Christmas and woudl like to know. I am only learning about the Caddy engines, so if my assumptions are out to lunch, please forgive me and feel free to correct me.

Rob

[David Dunlop]

If it is of any help, Rob, my 1950 Chilton Manual states the engine serial number for 1937 to 1939 V8's is stamped on the crankcase back of left cylinder block. In 1940, for some reason, the engine number was placed on the vehicle frame only, by the steering post (seems vehicle SN may have equaled Engine SN). 1941 to 1950 the Engine Number was on the right-hand side of crankcase, just above water pump.


David

[Bob Carriere]

Deluxe 346 engine rebuild kits on Ebay $1400 and all kinds of shop manuals and some parts.

surprised to find them so readily available

Good luck with the cast iron puzzle.

Bob C

[Jes Andersen]

[QUOTE=rob love;221316]Subterfuge in the vehicle collecting hobby? Say it isn't so!!


I had considered posting a picture of a row of Ford flatheads that I found somewhere and plead ignorance to what was delivered, but I couldn't get myself to do that to you this time....

If you need me to make another contact and vicit with Rob in Nanaimo, let me know. A couple of hours at his place was interesting but nothing like a couple at John's place.

Jes