SOME truck engines have a .400 taller deck height. I have not seen any tall deck motors in light duty trucks. The 402 in my car is a std deck 71-71 truck motor. Works just fine just not the original for the car. My 454 motor came out of a late 80's dually pickup. Walt
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >Ok guys..the 69 396 I thought I was buying turned out to be a 71 402 >Truck engine from the numbers I deciphered below: > >3999290 >CM9T >Conv1 >F1871 > >Does anyone disagree? What does the Conv1 mean? > >And the biggest question of all......what the heck is the difference >between a truck engine and a car engine and why would GM feel a need >show that it's a Truck engine as part of the identification on the >block? > >Is this a good engine to rebuild and use? Any bad points you can think >of? > >Thanks! > Steve > > > >----------------------------------------------------- >To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html >To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walter Bainey Network Engineer Network Services Kent State University ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
