Chevy engine serial number identification Click here to download Chevrolet camaro engine st pad decode sle. Engine serial number is located on the right side of the engine on a boss just to the rear of the ignition distributor for 216 and 235 c.i. Chevrolet block identif. Suffix codes for 6 cylinder and small block Chevy passenger car engines. For 1958-65 Chevrolet 6 cylinder & Smallblock V8 (this chart also includes 1965 396 engines).
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Engine Casting Codes & Serial Numbers
1954-1963 Chevrolet 235/261 inline 6 cylinder
(NOTE: these photos are from a 1960 261 engine; however, 1954-63 235 & 261 codes should be in the locations shown below)
PHOTO 1: block casting code
3769717
between and below the distributor hole (left-top) and road-draft-tube hole (right-top)
PHOTO 2: block date-casting code
I 29 9
letter = month; number = day; number = year
September, 29 1959
(CON 4 is to the left of the date code)
lower left on the distributor side of the block
(note the 'captain's bars' - all USA 261 blocks and 1953 passenger car Powerglide-equipped 235 blocks have these bars )
PHOTO 3: engine serial number
F0930LB
on the ledge to the left of where the distributor enters the block
PHOTO 4: ??? - B 61 - 848 850 - ???
How are these decoded ??? All heads I have seen start with the 'B'
on the head, between spark plus 2 & 3
PHOTO 5: head codes on manifolds' side - see next two photos, below
head casting-code on left & head date-casting code in front of valve springs on the right
PHOTO 6: head casting code
3836850
(CON 12 is another casting under the valve cover and GM 5 is under the head casting coode)
top, middle of the manifolds' side of the head
235 Chevy Engine Identification
PHOTO 7: head date-casting code
L 17 9
letter = month; number = day; number = year
December 17, 1959
Chevrolet 235 Engine Serial Number Location
check out this web page by Bob Adler
on the top of the head, under the valve cover, between the 4th and 5th cylinders' valvesHow Do You Decode A Chevy Engine Number
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