Re: 352 Crankshaft

Posted by PackardV8 On 2012/2/4 11:20:07

BH wrote:
"So, it's still my gut feeling that the forged cranks were produced well before 1959, but for some other purpose, and that they were simply made available, later, as service replacements for these cars when the supply of original cast cranks was exhausted."

Yes. Based on the standard MO of the auto industry, especialy of that era, BH's gut feeling is the most likely and probable. Note that the Studebaker historian in the one of the above quotes indicated that such items as heads and blocks were NLA at that time but that cranks WERE AVAIABLE???? THerefore it is most likely that subject cranks (forged) could have been left overs from some earlier production run. OR to put it another way: If Studebaker didn't bother to produce heads and blocks for service replacement ca. 1959 then why would they have bothered with cranks???? The only reasonable conjecture is that of BH's claim as quoted above.