72 Thick Walled Ribbed Truck Block

[babybolt]

Thick walled block came from a FT engine.  Not a D3TE or D4TE block.  Has a CS, SX, or something like that scratched into the back of the block.  DIF cast on side.  Ribs on exterior of block.  Standard 4.05 bore.  Three webbed main bulkheads.  Has been baked, shotpeened and magnafluxed and sonic tested.  Sonic test sheets are in the last pictures.  Comes with a set of standard main bearings.  Also a standard forged 361 crank is included unless this does not sell in the next week - cranks is due for the scrap man in one week.

$600 firm.  Pickup in eastern Ohio or western PA.

Pictures are here:

http://s134.photobucket.com/user/stuffnpics/library/feblock

[jayb]

That is a very nice block, Doug.  Easily good to a 428 bore, from the looks of the sonic numbers...

[thatdarncat]

Have you looked down into the water jackets to see if it has the "428" cast in?

[babybolt]

I'll look to see if the 428 is cast into the water jackets tomorrow.  Also want to double check the distributor hole, I think it is sized for the regular FE distributor, not the FT.

[babybolt]

No 428 cast into water jacket.  It does take a passenger car distributor.  That's what I remembered.  I took this block into the engine shop in early Dec of 14 and just finally got it back.  Actually you are paying $400 for the block, the shop charged $175 for the sonic test, baking, shot peening and mag inspection.  It took me 4 trips and about 11 phone calls.

The only thing I can see about this block is some core shift in the lifter gallery.

Can ship this too, have a wood cradle and pallet.

[Qikbbstang]

Amazing to see walls approaching 0.300"....I thought the only place walls that think existed in an FE were on the clover leaf reinforcements of 427s.
I'm just trying to learn: How do you spot core shift in a lifter galley?

[babybolt]

On the lifter gallery, just by eyeballing it.

BTW, the block is sold.

[falcongeorge]

I have a block that is virtually the same as this. Same casting numbers, similar wall thickness, external ribs, Pass. dist, no 428 in water jacket, '72ish 390 block. Dont know what it originally came out of, I pulled it from my brothers F150 4x4, but it was not the original block.