My GM engine number when was it build??
 

Listers,

Currently working on the restoration of my Machinery HUP, I found on the GM engine a number GM8 8835849

Can someone tell me when this engine was build??

Thanks

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No
 

Casting # 3835849 is off a 1952-3 216 passenger or truck engine. What is the casting date code that will be found nearby? It will be in the format A to L for January to December, then 1 to 31 for the date and then 0 to 9 for say 1950 to 1959 (or 1940 to 1941, 1960 to 1960, etc.).

I'm wondering now if I have the right number I didn't find a casting date nearby the number I found. The number I'm reading is close to the fuelpump.
Looking closer it reads GM3 instead of GM8 the rest of the number is possible 3835849 indeed

Numbers
 

The '3' can look like an '8'. There wil be a casting date code near that number. It may be under years of grime!

What is the engine number stamped on the pad on the block?

Head
 

Under the valve cover will be found the head's casting number and casting date code which are in the top of the head and not on the side.

Will check on that can't remove the cover yet


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Pieter

Ok David, I removed the Valve cover today, the serial number that I found is

GM 838773 CON9 H151

Hope this gives you enough info

Pieter

Date
 

GM = General Motors, possibly either Flint Grey Iron Foundry or more likely The McKinnon Industries Ltd, St Catherines, Ontario (foundry)
838773 = 1938 on 216 casting
CON9 = Conveyor 9, to i.d. the casting batch should there be a problem..introduced 1929
H151 = could be August 15th 1951 but must be August 15th 1941

This would make it from possibly a '1942' Model Year engine as against a late '1941' engine. The original engine would have been assembled in Walkerville transmission plant a few weeks later, in Walkerville Transmission Plant, Walker Road, Windsor as it was by then. Engines then sat around in store and then got used up at Oshawa, without attention to any sequencing.

One thing I forgot to ask I think: what is the engine number stamped on the pad on the front of the block? This will help identify its date as well as the original purpose (car, truck, light commercial, rhd). The casting date code that you found on the head will be similar to that on the block if you can locate it, on the side near that casting number.

I am not speculating but wonder if the block was swapped for a later one at some stahe?