wow your negative, looks half open to me
Very true maybe I should reinstall and use this one, take my new one back and have 80 bucks to spend on something else
wow your negative, looks half open to me
The timing marks being on the left side makes that a 1970-up front cover. A '69 should have the marks on the right side. And obviously, a '70-up balancer is different from a '69 or earlier. You are going to have to determine what year that engine is before you can go too much further! There are bunch of guys here that can tell you how to decipher the numbers stamped on the block. You have '69 style water pump. The other thing is that the inlet for the pump being on the left side makes those '70-up timing marks almost impossible to read. Someone has mis-matched some parts.
The timing marks being on the left side makes that a 1970-up front cover. A '69 should have the marks on the right side. And obviously, a '70-up balancer is different from a '69 or earlier. You are going to have to determine what year that engine is before you can go too much further! There are bunch of guys here that can tell you how to decipher the numbers stamped on the block. You have '69 style water pump. The other thing is that the inlet for the pump being on the left side makes those '70-up timing marks almost impossible to read. Someone has mis-matched some parts.
The VIN and casting date is located on the passenger side (right side as seated in the driver's seat). Those will tell the tale. Check out Krazy Kuda's How to ID a small block in the "How to Articles".
That's the casting date. Looks like 6-23-?? Can't make out the year. Night shift!!
The VIN pad should be right underneath the drain plug. I can sorta see the left side of it right above the oil pan.
I dont think they stamped the vins in the blocks until 1969
Remove #1 plug and turn it over until you have reached TDC on the compression stroke. Now, lets see if your mark on the harmonic balancer is indicating near tdc. I noticed the mix match colors and wrong timing chain cover earlier as well. My 1st thought was someone had swapped them out.. followed by I hope the 340 is in there! Stoked to see a X head 340 living in there.
I notice the exhaust on the floor, are you going to install your headers?
I dont think they stamped the vins in the blocks until 1969
Up thru 1968 all you will find stamped in on a body is a manufacturing sequence number, and nothing on the engine typically except its size stamped in.
Starting in 1969 the last 8 of the vin would be stamped in 2 locations on the body, also on a machined pad on the engine usually close to the oil pan rail, and on a machined pad on the transmission, pan rail on automatic, and on a specially cast in pad on passenger side for manual. This was for anti theft, and theft recovery purposes.
On the body, locations vary as to the location on the back of the car, however on the front, it's usually always the top of the radiator support on the LH side. Factory would cover em up with a yellow mopar antifreeze sticker On your Dart probably the LH trunk drip rail in the back under the weather stripping. That's where I found the rear body numbers on my sons 69 notchback.
On dusters, dart sports, and demons I could be wrong, but I believe those numbers were stamped in the speaker deck.
Turns easier if you remove the spark plugs lol
So whoever put the wrong front cover on re-marked the balancer. Got to wonder how "close" that mark is though. The engraved line looks about where it should be on the right side though. Well, ± 10° anyways....I did turn the balancer by hand a bit (which sucks btw) and this is pretty dang close to TDC and roughly where the light was hitting the other day. I'm going to grab a 1 1/16 socket on the way home from the haircut place .
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So whoever put the wrong front cover on re-marked the balancer. Got to wonder how "close" that mark is though. The engraved line looks about where it should be on the right side though. Well, ± 10° anyways....