Brown Truck Under the Knife Project - Engine

[The Warden]

Hey Mel ya got an idear what the serial numbers for those "A"'s would fall under?

Mater may have one that would fall into that category.

Simplest way is to look at the emissions sticker on the valve cover. If it says A170, it's an A engine; if it says B170, it's a B engine. Another way to check is to look at your engine serial number. If the s/n's under 59209, it's an A engine...anything higher and it's a B engine.

 

[dyoung14]

Threadjack on.....

dyoung. Did you get the 86 "back" or did you get a different truck? I remember a thread about having a problem with the one you had?

threadjack off......

i got it back

 

[dyoung14]

i have an a model

 

[snicklas]

i got it back

GOOD!!! I am glad to hear it. Is it yours this time, no strings attached?

 

[dyoung14]

GOOD!!! I am glad to hear it. Is it yours this time, no strings attached?

yea so he says, but hes not being an ******** right now so its all good lol, and thanks man, and sorry sean for highjacking your thread

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Lol you guys. Don't worry about the threadjack, doesn't bother me when people are discussing stuff and learning from it. It's all good.
I'll add to the Model "A" discussion just this little tid bit. Model A blocks have a problem with the blocks cracking around the block heater freeze plug. Also, model A engines used different head castings than the rest of the 6.9 family did and they are also prone to cracking if you're not careful. BUT, we ran my grandpas 83 for years and years, over 650,000 miles, and only had one head crack once and never had any problems with using the factory block heater. But from what I've been told we got VERY lucky. I love my 6.9's. My moms 94 CC now has a 6.9 in it and she says it doesn't have anywhere near the amount of power her IDIT 7.3 had. I have a hard time believing that since it has all of the IDIT parts on it.

 

[dyoung14]

i like the 6.9 better than the 7.3 but it seems to me that the 7.3 has more bottom end torque

 

[bigoilburner19]

damn man wow sean u made me cry your words touched me well we all have that soft side in us all

 

[The Warden]

Model A blocks have a problem with the blocks cracking around the block heater freeze plug.

Actually, this problem isn't limited to Model A blocks. Early Model B blocks have the same problem; it was corrected starting with s/n 173828, which IIRC corresponds with about midway through the 1985 model year.

BTW, I'm getting my data from a Ford publication that was issued in '85 or '86. It was posted in .pdf form on TDS a few years back. If anyone's interested, I can E-mail it or upload to the Web and provide a link (although I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to get to it). I've never taken the time to read through all of it, but there's some VERY good info in the parts that I have read. I took a screen shot of the breakdown of the various improvements made (as of the date of publication) along with the corresponding serial numbers. The "1984 Exhaust Emissions Engine" mentioned in the table is the Model B. Actually, I think you can put Model A heads and pistons on a Model B block if you wanted to; to my understanding, the differences are in the heads, the pistons, and the precups.

 

[Agnem]

Interesting. About half of those are all IP related.

 

[david85]

Champion glow plugs?

 

[dyoung14]

Actually, this problem isn't limited to Model A blocks. Early Model B blocks have the same problem; it was corrected starting with s/n 173828, which IIRC corresponds with about midway through the 1985 model year.

BTW, I'm getting my data from a Ford publication that was issued in '85 or '86. It was posted in .pdf form on TDS a few years back. If anyone's interested, I can E-mail it or upload to the Web and provide a link (although I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to get to it). I've never taken the time to read through all of it, but there's some VERY good info in the parts that I have read. I took a screen shot of the breakdown of the various improvements made (as of the date of publication) along with the corresponding serial numbers. The "1984 Exhaust Emissions Engine" mentioned in the table is the Model B. Actually, I think you can put Model A heads and pistons on a Model B block if you wanted to; to my understanding, the differences are in the heads, the pistons, and the precups.

it wont open up big enough for me to read

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Got the intercooler today. It's bent/twisted. Looks to have been done in shipping somehow...

 

[The Warden]

That's no good have you contacted the shipping company yet? If so, what did they have to say about it?

 

[The Warden]

it wont open up big enough for me to read

What screen resolution are you running? The full-size picture is 871x1000 pixels. If you're just seeing the "preview" picture, click on the picture again and it should pop up full-size in a new window. FWIW, I'm not having any problems reading it on my 1280x960 screen...