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rotorwrench · 02-20-2021, 01:34 PM

The engine may have come from a salvage yard. Big trucks can use a car type oil pan and get away with it. Trucks generally have the deep rear sump pan with the bolt on seal flange between the pan and the cast iron type bell housing depending on transmission application. That one has the Ford center sump pan and the 49 to E51 Mercury stamped steel half bell housing with the Mercury starter plate. The heads could be early truck heads. Most truck heads have the 8RT part prefix on them but not all. Ford car and light pickup had 8BA prefix heads until 1952. The later EAB cars in 1952 & 53 have the big cast iron bell housing with swing pedal clutch release.

What transmission is in the truck?

02-20-2021, 01:34 PM	#18
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,436	Re: Flathead identification The engine may have come from a salvage yard. Big trucks can use a car type oil pan and get away with it. Trucks generally have the deep rear sump pan with the bolt on seal flange between the pan and the cast iron type bell housing depending on transmission application. That one has the Ford center sump pan and the 49 to E51 Mercury stamped steel half bell housing with the Mercury starter plate. The heads could be early truck heads. Most truck heads have the 8RT part prefix on them but not all. Ford car and light pickup had 8BA prefix heads until 1952. The later EAB cars in 1952 & 53 have the big cast iron bell housing with swing pedal clutch release. What transmission is in the truck?