Re: Numbers Matching?

Posted by HH56 On 2017/6/6 11:36:23

Service engines were complete engine assys (minus bolt ons such as manifolds, pulleys, electrical etc) that a dealership could order complete just like a new part and install if the original engine was destroyed or would otherwise cost more to repair than the new engine.

After Packard was out of business Studebaker moved several of the service engines offering them to dealers at low prices to get them out of warehouses. When those (and Studebaker) were gone, if another engine was needed the junkyard was the option. The junkyard is probably the reason you see so many cars now with the wrong year or size engine installed.