Found/for sale 2 WW2 Ford V8's in crate

[Michael R.]

As Bob says, welcome Josh.
I believe you have an engine assembly quite similar to, if not actually a C21T-6097. That would be correct with the C81 block, at 221 c.i., 85 H.P.. An engine in this assembly style may be found in a 1942 R.H.D. 114" commercial, 122" and 134" wheelbase conventional and modified conventional trucks (when four speed transmission specified)

There are multiple indications this engine is not intended for universal carriers in the current assembly. For example: single pulley water pumps, specific crankshaft pulley design, truck type exhaust manifolds. Although missing from your images, and assumed not to have been supplied with the lump, would be the fan mounting style on a bracket below the generator, flat type distributor, coil mounted beside generator. Portions of your hydro-vent assembly have been sheared off.

The wood crate is not original to the engine assembly when exported from Ford Canada. If you examine the method of nailing the boards, and the fact the painted markings show the export in metric weight, it suggests it is one of twenty similar crates being exported from abroad into America.

These engines were discussed on MLU in 2017 when originally offered for sale. See: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...d.php?p=245402