{"id":59,"date":"2003-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:56:44","slug":"bel-air\/engine-and-box-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Engine and Box are Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

My cousin Bob gave me a ring on Saturday, and offered to help pull the engine and box out. I was glad of a hand, and we set about the car just after 1 pm. After a quick run of the engine without the exhausts on (Well, you gotta have a go havent you?) we took the wings and front off. Every bolt and screw just undid, which is amazing after working on rusty Brit cars. By about 6 we had everything ready to pull the engine and box, and half hour later it was on the floor. And thats when it got confusing. The “TH 350″ that I got for the Dooster, which was hopefully gonna go in with the 350 turned out to be 3” longer than the glide. Doh! Chop the prop? Get a new tail bit for the box?<\/p>\n

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Plan “A” was to get a new tail, so I looked for any numbers stamped on the box. Not a one to be seen. Hmm. OK, Get my TH350 book I bought off ebay and compare. Looks a bit like but not quite. That’s the passenger side of the car at the bottom, and a fridge from the old house at the top. I need to tidy up.<\/p>\n

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So onto the net. I looked at every GM box I could find, and it doesn’t look like any of em. It’s got a pan shaped like a TH350, but it hasnt got all the same bits sticking out. It was out of a late 70’s\/Early 80’s Monte Carlo, which had TH200’s or 350’s in apparently. I just need someone to say “Yes mate, it’s a 350” or whatever so I can revisit plan “A”.<\/p>\n

\"luckydipbox3.jpg\"<\/p>\n

According to the info I found, a TH200 has stuff stamped into the pan. Nothing to be seen. So is it a TH350 or is it a TH200 that’s got the pan off one? I dunno. Someone will. It’s blue, so doesnt go with the green block! Time to get polishing I think If it goes in the car.<\/p>\n

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Now the motor’s out, I could find the serial and casting number. Engine serial is T0218D which I reckon makes it a 1957 283 cast
\non the 18th of February in Tonawanda 283ci 185hp unit. The other numbers seem to tie up too (3746826 on the Inlet manifold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My cousin Bob gave me a ring on Saturday, and offered to help pull the engine and box out. I was glad of a hand, and we set about the car just after 1 pm. After a quick run of the engine without the exhausts on (Well, you gotta have a go havent you?) we took the wings and front off. Every bolt and screw just undid, which is amazing after working on rusty Brit cars. By about 6 we had everything ready to pull the engine and box, and half hour later it was on the floor. And thats when it got confusing. The “TH 350″ that I got for the Dooster, which was hopefully gonna go in with the 350 turned out to be 3” longer than the glide. Doh! Chop the prop? Get a new tail bit for the box?<\/p>\n

\"luckydipbox.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Plan “A” was to get a new tail, so I looked for any numbers stamped on the box. Not a one to be seen. Hmm. OK, Get my TH350 book I bought off ebay and compare. Looks a bit like but not quite. That’s the passenger side of the car at the bottom, and a fridge from the old house at the top. I need to tidy up.<\/p>\n

\"luckydipbox2.jpg\"<\/p>\n

So onto the net. I looked at every GM box I could find, and it doesn’t look like any of em. It’s got a pan shaped like a TH350, but it hasnt got all the same bits sticking out. It was out of a late 70’s\/Early 80’s Monte Carlo, which had TH200’s or 350’s in apparently. I just need someone to say “Yes mate, it’s a 350” or whatever so I can revisit plan “A”.<\/p>\n

\"luckydipbox3.jpg\"<\/p>\n

According to the info I found, a TH200 has stuff stamped into the pan. Nothing to be seen. So is it a TH350 or is it a TH200 that’s got the pan off one? I dunno. Someone will. It’s blue, so doesnt go with the green block! Time to get polishing I think If it goes in the car.<\/p>\n

\"engineserial.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Now the motor’s out, I could find the serial and casting number. Engine serial is T0218D which I reckon makes it a 1957 283 cast
\non the 18th of February in Tonawanda 283ci 185hp unit. The other numbers seem to tie up too (3746826 on the Inlet manifold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}