Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

[Brian K.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

Thanks Bill.

So they should be parallel to the crankshaft & not circular like you might see from a machine shop job?

Mine are still there but it was decked somewhere along the line. You can see them well enough to prove it if I ever need to. Besides it's a 327/300.

[Michael W.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

I hate to sound stupid but what exactly are "broach" marks? Is that the lines created when the deck is milled at the foundry?

Close. It's the lines that in SOME cases MIGHT have been created when the decked was broached. Milling is a completely different operation that was not used by Flint or Tonawanda.

Far too many people believe that all decks had broaching marks.

[Steven S.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

As far as the what I will call "flying F" of the suffix code, what was the ryme or reason to it? A certain production period or just random?

[Dick W.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

The "flying F" as you refer to is somewhat common on the earlier Mark IV engines

[Keith B.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

The heads are wrong on both pictures. I would not say either look "real".

[Mike M.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

Interesting, the more I look at Pic #2, it looks like someone tried to broach over the stamps.
But, as others have stated, pictures can be deceiving.
HaND

[Page C.]

Re: Engine Pad Stampings - Restamps or Original

The second one (19395) was advertised on Ebay in Oct 09 as a matching # engine which is what I think it is. Also it had a XX paint code and was painted red. Can't see enough on the first to commit.
Page Campbell